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Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%,
Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year.
Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate the schools, tribal education leaders say

Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate the schools, tribal education leaders say.

'Everyone Is Welcome Here' Signs Banned From Idaho Schools as 'Political' Statement | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/idaho-schools-ban-signs

Fascism in the USA:
Oklahoma Set to Teach Trump’s Election Lies in Public Schools as Parents and Teachers Push Back
https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/oklahoma-set-to-teach-trumps-election-lies-in-public-schools-as-parents-and-teachers-push-back/

faculty_hiring: Faculty hiring networks (Comp. Sci., Business, History)
Three networks of faculty hiring in Computer Science Departments, Business Schools, and History Departments. Each node is a PhD-granting institution in the respective field, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2013). All data collected from faculty public rosters at the sampled institutions.
Thi…

Europe on high alert as surprise early heat wave creeps north https://phys.org/news/2025-07-europe-high-early-north.html
Satellite image shows Southern Europe's land and sea experiencing extreme heat

Europe on high alert as surprise early heat wave creeps north
Schools were partially shut in France, iconic monuments closed to tourists, and cities across Europe put on high alert as a record-breaking early summer heat wave spread across the continent Tuesday.

Teacher-AI Collaboration for Curating and Customizing Lesson Plans in Low-Resource Schools
Deepak Varuvel Dennison, Bakhtawar Ahtisham, Kavyansh Chourasia, Nirmit Arora, Rahul Singh, Rene F. Kizilcec, Akshay Nambi, Tanuja Ganu, Aditya Vashistha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.00456

Teacher-AI Collaboration for Curating and Customizing Lesson Plans in Low-Resource Schools
This study investigates Shiksha copilot, an AI-assisted lesson planning tool deployed in government schools across Karnataka, India. The system combined LLMs and human expertise through a structured process in which English and Kannada lesson plans were co-created by curators and AI; teachers then further customized these curated plans for their classrooms using their own expertise alongside AI support. Drawing on a large-scale mixed-methods study involving 1,043 teachers and 23 curators, we ex…

Texas GOP lawmakers introduce bills to display Ten Commandments, read Bible in schools
Considering that these texts constitute the foundational elements of all religions derived from Judaism, should they not be displayed in their original Hebrew to preserve their authenticity and integrity? https://ground.news/article/texas-gop-lawmakers-introduce-bills-to-display-ten-commandments-read-bible-in-schools_e0334e

Efficient Manipulation-Enhanced Semantic Mapping With Uncertainty-Informed Action Selection
Nils Dengler, Jesper M\"ucke, Rohit Menon, Maren Bennewitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02286

Efficient Manipulation-Enhanced Semantic Mapping With Uncertainty-Informed Action Selection
Service robots operating in cluttered human environments such as homes, offices, and schools cannot rely on predefined object arrangements and must continuously update their semantic and spatial estimates while dealing with possible frequent rearrangements. Efficient and accurate mapping under such conditions demands selecting informative viewpoints and targeted manipulations to reduce occlusions and uncertainty. In this work, we present a manipulation-enhanced semantic mapping framework for oc…

“It is a cruel joke that taxpayers who could never dream of sending their own kids to such superbly well-resourced schools are indirectly subsidising those that can,” said Matthew Wade, a sociologist at La Trobe University who has studied the scheme for years.
“We should all be offended by witnessing something so manifestly unfair continue unabated.”

San Francisco schools urge judge to block AmeriCorps grant cuts over DEI | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/san-francisco-schools-urge-judge-to-block-americorps-grant-cuts-over-dei/