Board taps next superintendent for New Mexico’s largest school district
The Albuquerque Public Schools Board on Monday named the district’s current chief operations officer as its new superintendent. Utah school district responds to allegations it hides students’ gender from parents Gabriela Duran-Blakey will replace current Superintendent Scott Elder, whose contract expires on June 30th. Elder has led New Mexico’s largest school district for more than […]
Harvard alumni backed by billionaires fail to make cut for board ballot
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman, who led a campaign criticizing Harvard University reeling from turmoil over anti-Semitism, plagiarism and practices related to financial management, on Friday named four candidates on the Ivy board’s ballot. Attempts to add additional members failed. League school. Another candidate backed by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg also failed to make it onto […]
GOP House candidate served on board of prep school pushing controversial LGBTQ, woke books on young students
A Republican state lawmaker running for the North Carolina General Assembly previously served as a preparatory school board member who frequently promoted controversial LGBTQ and other awareness books about young students. State Representative Gray Mills, who is running to represent North Carolina’s 10th Congressional District, served on the board of the Cannon School in Concord, […]
Arkansas parole board chair was fired from police department for lying about sex with minor
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A man appointed by Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to head the Arkansas Parole Board will serve years for lying to investigators about having sex with a minor. He showed me a document that stated that he had been fired from the local police department. Jamol Jones, whom Sanders named as […]
More than 130 on board cruise from Florida fall ill with vomiting, diarrhea
More than 130 people aboard a Cunard Cruise Line ship departing from Florida collapsed after suffering mysterious diarrhea and vomiting, health officials said. At least 120 passengers and 15 crew members traveling on the Queen Victoria have reported feeling sick since the cruise began on January 22, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control […]
Paramount board mulls sale as Byron Allen submits $14B bid
Paramount has taken the first steps toward a potential sale of the entertainment giant, despite media mogul Byron Allen’s proposed $14 billion takeover bid, the Post reported. The company’s board has established an independent committee outside of Shari Redstone, the media heiress who owns a controlling interest in Paramount, to consider strategic alternatives, including a […]
Illinois voters turn to court after board rejects effort to remove Trump from ballot
A group of Illinois voters filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging former President Trump’s eligibility to vote for president after the Illinois State Board of Elections voted for him hours before leaving him on the ballot. Four voters endorsed by the nonprofit group Free Speech for the People argue that Trump: not on the ballot paper […]
VA Democrats reject GOP Gov. Youngkin’s picks for parole board, vision impaired board
A Democratic-led committee in the Virginia Senate voted Tuesday against confirming Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s selection of Patricia West to head the state’s parole board. Without explanation, the Richmond Times-Dispatch and television station WRIC reported that the Privileges and Elections Committee removed West’s name from a resolution containing a long list of appointees that required […]
Illinois elections board votes to keep Trump on primary ballot
The Illinois State Board of Elections ruled Tuesday that former President Trump can remain on the state’s primary ballot, marking a key victory in the Democratic stronghold. The eight-member state commission, including four Republicans and four Democrats, made the decision unanimously. The former president’s position in the Prairie State primary, scheduled for March 19, was […]
Trump stays on Illinois’ ballot as election board declines to ban him over Capitol riot
The Illinois State Board of Elections on Tuesday placed former President Donald Trump on the state’s primary ballot, a week before the Supreme Court. listen to the discussion The question is whether the Republican Party’s role in the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 disqualifies him from being president. The board’s unanimous […]