San Francisco Reinstates 8th-Grade Algebra After ‘Equity’ Experiment Fails

Test scores declined and racial gaps persisted after the district removed algebra from the middle school curriculum in 2014 (Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images) San Francisco school officials voted Tuesday to restore eighth-grade algebra more than a decade after the district eliminated the course in the name of “equity,” a policy that attracted intense criticism as math

Democrats send new DHS funding offer

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said Democrats have submitted their latest proposal for pairing Department of Homeland Security funding with immigration enforcement policy changes. “Democrats sent Republicans our counteroffer on legislation to reopen DHS, pay TSA workers, while at the same time rein in ICE with commonsense guardrails,” Schumer said, adding that the offer “contains

Melania Trump pitches robots as potential educators for schoolchildren

Washington — For the first time in history, a robot, not a person, escorted the first lady of the United States Wednesday at the White House. Escorted by a walking, talking humanoid system, first lady Melania Trump pitched the Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit on AI robots as potential, “personalized” educators for America’s

DHS watchdog warned of risks in airport shoes-off policy. The report got buried.

An internal watchdog report in the Department of Homeland Security identified serious vulnerabilities in TSA’s screenings at airports nationwide, among them, one created by a change in the shoes-off policy — and the agency has yet to respond five months later, according to internal communications provided to House Homeland Security Committee staff and reviewed by

First Lady Melania Trump Convenes Record 45 Nations at the White House and Introduces American-Built Humanoid

Office of the First Lady First Lady Melania Trump convened First Spouses from 45 countries at the White House today for a Global Summit focused on the role of artificial intelligence and education. The gathering, part of the Fostering the Future Together initiative, is the largest international assembly hosted by a United States First Lady