Sandy Hook shooting survivors set to graduate from Connecticut high school with mixed feelings
Survivors of the Sandy Hook shooting will graduate from Newtown High School with mixed emotions, after learning that 20 of their slain classmates will not be able to attend the ceremony with them. On December 14, 2012, about 60 of the Connecticut high school’s 330 graduating class members were at Sandy Hook Elementary School when […]
NY high school students will no longer need to pass Regents exams to graduate under new plan
New York state teenagers will no longer be required to pass Regents exams to earn their high school diplomas, under a new plan announced Monday by the New York State Department of Education. The Department of Education plans to eliminate the requirement that students pass five Regents exams to graduate from high school, but will […]
Michigan graduate rips commencement protesters: These people hate America
University of Michigan graduate Benny Shaevsky discusses the protests that took place during the school’s commencement … source
US Air Force Ran A Social Experiment To Graduate More Minority Pilots. It Didn’t Go As Planned
The U.S. Air Force abandoned an experiment aimed at boosting pilot training graduation rates for women and minority pilots after the 2021 initiative failed to achieve the intended results and officers privately warned it could violate anti-discrimination policies, according to documents obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. As part of the larger military-wide effort […]
High School Graduate Doesn’t Get Diploma after Urging Audience to Seek Jesus
A Kentucky high school student says he hasn’t received his diploma yet because he went off script in his graduation speech and urged the audience to seek Jesus. Micah Price, a graduate from Campbell County High School in Kentucky, said he was given permission by school officials to start his speech by thanking “our Lord […]
11-Year-Old CA Girl Becomes Youngest Graduate of Irvine Valley College
An 11-year-old California girl has broken the record for youngest student to graduate from Irvine Valley College, just one year after her brother set the record. FOX 11 Los Angeles cameras had to be called out to document a bit. Athena Elling’s Graduation As she walked across the stage, Last week she was with other […]
Harvard Corporation Overrules Faculty; ‘Encampment’ Seniors Will Not Graduate
The Harvard Board of Trustees, the university’s highest authority and a centuries-old organization, overruled the faculty vote and approved the board’s decision to block the graduation of 13 “encampment” activists. Breitbart News points out that: “This ‘encampment’ disrupted campus life for nearly three weeks, with protests occurring in the midst of final exam period. He […]
Harvard rejects effort to let 13 pro-Palestinian student encampment members graduate
Harvard University rejected an effort to confer a degree on 13 students who were disciplined for participating in a pro-Palestinian encampment. An overwhelming majority of the 115 members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to confer degrees on the 13 seniors, who had been given disciplinary charges from the Harvard College Administrative Board […]
UMass Dartmouth Commencement Billionaire Speaker Surprises Each Graduate With $1,000
Bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attends the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth DARTMOUTH, MA – APRIL 26: A view of the entrance to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth campus on April 26, 2013 in Dartmouth, Massachusetts. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, was a second-year student at the university. (Photo by Kayana Szymczak/Getty Images) […]
Tennessee Hamilton High School graduate throws his diploma, brawls with student during ceremony
A Tennessee high school graduate threw his diploma at another student as he was removed from a ceremony for displaying gang signs, sparking a fight on stage. The brawl between two Hamilton High School graduates was caught on camera Thursday night during a peer celebration inside the Cannon Center in Memphis, Tennessee. The incident stemmed […]