EDUCATION

Over 400 students were disenrolled from several Virginia colleges prior to the fall semester for not complying with the vaccine mandates for students.

While Central Michigan University was testing new technology, the students received a message that they had won the prestigious Centralis Scholars Award.

"We maintain a posture of neglect when post-secondary education is out of reach for students and their families. This is un-American," Miguel Cardona said.

"I just wanted people to remember how far compassion goes, in motivating and uplifting people," the teacher said.

Barry Mehler was suspended with pay earlier this month following a 14-minute video where he called students "vectors of disease."

A Michigan university is making amends to nearly five dozen students who thought they were selected as part of a prestigious scholarship award.

"This polling shows the virus is our enemy, not each other. Parents are saying teachers are heroes for their efforts," said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

"There was no book that I read that brought me to who I am," state Senator Shevirn Jones, the first openly gay Black person elected to the legislature, said.

Some local government officials have questioned whether the attorney general is filing the lawsuits to bring more publicity to his U.S. Senate campaign.

The state Board of Education voted to remove some regulations on substitute teaching to allow them to stay longer as the shortage continues.

It's "not a subject that we have talked about enough in the past and it's now a crisis for working families and our economy," said NCCA Director Cindy Lehnhoff.

"We are indeed going to continue to teach all history...but we are going to get these inherently divisive teaching practices out of the classroom," Youngkin said.