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RACINE — Parts of the new Red Apple school will be named after Laurel Clark. The Racine Unified School District Board during ...

Alumni Julia D. Phelps, Maureen A. Hartford, Heather Coats, Jeremy N. Butler and Brendan I. Cook will be honored March 7 for their leadership in the educational and healthcare fields.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris will soon receive a prestigious award from the National Association for the Advancement ...

The Jericho school community debates renaming Cantiague Elementary School to honor Henry Grishman, the district’s current ...

Lucille Ford;s name sits above a video board outside the AHS library that runs information of honorees from the past 11 ...

Gov. Greg Abbott said he demanded that the state’s education agency investigate a Houston high school whose teachers were ...

From proposing to house Silent Sam in a new campus museum in 2018 to failing to grant tenure to Nikole Hannah-Jones in 2021, ...

The more that politicians mess around with place names, the more important it is to respond according to consistent ...

The Tyler City Council has approved naming a baseball field at Fun Forest Park after Rev. Ralph Caraway Sr. in recognition of ...

The Caldecott committee also gives several Caldecott Honor awards to artists of other books of distinction. Check out our list of some of the recent Caldecott-winning books. The latest winners and ...

U.S. Military bases were named after Confederate soldiers to appease white supremacists; it was right to rename them.