WASHINGTON (AP) - The nation's leading university for the deaf and hard of hearing reinstated its chief diversity officer, who was suspended for three months after signing a petition circulated by opponents of gay marriage in Maryland.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A Wisconsin school district has refused to get rid of its Indian nickname and logo despite a court ruling supporting a state order to drop it.
Legislators passed a law in 2010 giving the state Department of Public Instruction the authority to force schools to drop race-based nicknames, logos and mascots if a complaint was filed and the agency found the names or images were discriminatory.
MAGNOLIA, Ark. (AP) - In the early 1900s, a Jewish man in Chicago, Ill., with no apparent connection to the South, began building schools for blacks in the rural South. Julius Rosenwald would become one of the most significant figures in Southern black education - and would eventually leave his mark in a small community right here in southwest Arkansas.
That school was the forerunner of the Free Hope Community Center, earlier known as the Free Hope Civic League.
This year - 2012 - marks the centennial of the Rosenwald School program.
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant said education dominates his 2013 legislative agenda, from merit pay for teachers to charter schools that will receive public funding but be free of some state regulations.
"Ninety percent of our goal this session is to not only talk about education but get something transformational passed," the Republican said in an interview with The Associated Press. The three-month session begins at noon Jan. 8.
