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An elementary teacher in Georgia has been fired after she read a book about gender identity to a fifth grade class.

The Department of Education has launched an investigation into Harvard's legacy admissions process, just one month after the fall of affirmative action.

Student loan payments have been on pause since the start of the pandemic in 2020, but Congress recently voted to end that pause which will result in millions of people

Critics argue that university’s preference toward legacy applicants exacerbates existing inequalities in higher education

Owen Tabor was popular, a star football player and a good student.

Rep. Jamaal Bowman reintroduced his Fair College Admissions for Students Act which works to stop universities and colleges from giving children of alumni preferential treatment.

Long before the recent ruling, a sequence of the Court’s decisions had been gradually eroding the practice.

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, is introducing legislation to stop universities around the country from giving preferential treatment to children of alumni.

Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley, a Democrat, is introducing legislation to stop universities around the country from giving preferential treatment to children of alumni.

But GOP senators stopped short of backing a Democratic bill that would ban colleges from giving preference to students with legacy or donor status.