Segregation academies that remain vastly white continue to play an integral role in perpetuating school segregation — and, as a result, racial separation in the surrounding communities. We found these ...

Gov. Kristi Noem presents her annual budget address to lawmakers in the South Dakota State Capitol on Dec. 3, 2024, while Lt. Gov. Larry Rhoden looks on. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight) To ...

The recently passed 131-page Omnibus bill contained additional money to help victims of Hurricane Helene, but that was only a small portion of the bill. It contained dramatic changes to state ...

In Chicago and Houston, nearly half of white students attend private schools. In the Mississippi Delta, farms, wildlife refuges and churches dot the landscape alongside the Magnolia State's country ...

Matthew Ladner is a senior adviser for education policy implementation in The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Education Policy. ProPublica recently published “Segregation Academies Across the South ...

Ms. Spiers, a contributing Opinion writer, is a journalist and a digital media strategist. After her failure to identify slavery as the cause of the Civil War generated a wave of criticism last month, ...

ProPublica is very concerned. It has found something that is, as the cool kids say, problematic. Another way of describing this is that any old argument is being used to oppose school vouchers, ...

Segregation is not a proud moment but it is in the past.” WHSV reports an Shenandoah County School Board defense attorney made that statement during opening arguments in the recent ...

It took more than 15 years for Mississippi and other Southern states to catch up to the Supreme Court's landmark desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education, and many in the school systems ...

By threatening public schools with diversity initiatives, promoting “school choice,” attacking efforts to make school discipline less racist and doing whatever he can to dismantle the Department of ...

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Private schools across the South that were established for white children during desegregation are now benefiting from tens of millions in taxpayer ...