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The Battle-Fitzgerald entrance and atrium at Lawrenceville School in New Jersey is being renamed after the school's first two Black students.
Lyals Battle and Darrell Fitzgerald were the last of the major independent boarding schools to integrate students of color.
Many boarding schools pushed back against integration, but Lawrenceville realized times were changing and it needed to move towards integration.
A UCLA Civil Rights Project in 2018 showed private schools across the country still lagging in diversity.
Today , 55% of Lawrenceville School's student body of about 800 is non-White .
The school boasts graduates such as former Connecticut governor Lowell Weicker and current Vice Chairman of Alibaba Group Joseph Tsai .
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Hispanic -serving institutions, or HSIs, are not-for-profit schools with a full-time equivalent undergraduate student enrollment that is at least a quarter Hispanic .
President Joe Biden's recent executive order establishing an initiative to increase funding to HSIs.
The more than 500 HSIs in the U.S. and Puerto Rico serve more than 4.7 million students every year, federal data shows.
A student says resources are lacking for Hispanic students who aren't native English speakers.
"The support is there, they just don’t tell us," Melissa Camacho said.
"There are a lot of students like me who want to continue their education, but we do not have the information," she said.
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Republican Matt Salisbury quits Alaska 's U.S. House race, allowing Democrat Eric Hafner to advance.
Salisbury finished fourth in Alaska ’s primary last month , and Nick Begich , who finished second , wanted to get to know his fellow Republican .
The hourslong talk over food helped convince Salisbury to quit the race.
U.S. Constitution requires a House candidate to be at least 25 years old , a citizen for at least seven years , and to be an inhabitant of the state “when elected” Hafner is expected to be in prison for 12 years more, making it all but impossible for him to come to Alaska , if he were to somehow be elected.
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Spc. Byron Fouty and Staff Sgt. Alex Jimenez were captured May 12, 2007 , during an assault of a military observation post in the village of al-Taqa , near Yusufiyah , south of Baghdad .
They were beheaded after their capture with a third soldier.
The Syrian government did not appear in court or otherwise respond to the complaint.
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Workers seeking to ban smoking in Atlantic City casinos ask appeals court to consider request.
Lower court judge dismissed lawsuit that sought to end smoking in nine casinos.
Judge Patrick Bartels said workers' claim that they have a right to safety "is not well-settled law" Casino Employees Against Smoking Effects seeks so-called “emergent relief".
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Hawaii has been wrestling with how to square its gun laws with a 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding the right to bear arms.
Three Maui residents sued to block a 2023 state law prohibiting carrying a firearm on the sand.
They argued that Hawaii went too far with its wide-ranging ban.
A three -judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals published an opinion reversing the lower court ruling on beaches, parks, bars and restaurants that serve alcohol.
Panel affirmed the ruling for banks and certain parking lots.
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A fivefold increase in remote work since the pandemic could boost economic growth and bring wider benefits.
Working from home ( WFH ) increased about tenfold following outbreak of pandemic and has settled in at about five times its prepandemic level.
This could counter slowing productivity and deliver a surge in economic growth over the next few decades .
Remote work enables global matching between employees and firms, boosting labor productivity.
The impact of fully remote working, which has been adopted by about 10 percent of employees, is highly dependent on how well it’s managed.
Remote work has curbed commuting traffic volumes across the US and Europe by an estimated 10 percent .
Lowering pollution not only improves our quality of life but can also increase growth.
Cost of living in the city rose dramatically in the 1990s and 2000s , pricing many middle- and lower-income employees out of city centers.
This is especially problematic as many of these workers provide essential services such as firefighting, policing, teaching, health care, food, transportation, and other work that can only be done in person.
The 2020 surge in working from home has helped offset the productivity slowdown overall and is boosting present and future growth.
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Black Californians warn Gov. Gavin Newsom of direct impact’ on Kamala Harris after Dems kill slavery reparation bills after Dems hold off on two bills that would have greenlighted slavery reparations.
The California legislature approved proposals allowing for the return of land or compensation to families whose property was unjustly seized by the government.
But none of those bills would provide widespread direct payments to African Americans .
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The American Civil Liberties Union plans to spend $1.3M in educate Montana voters about state Supreme Court candidates.
The expenditure comes after Republicans tried unsuccessfully in 2022 to unseat a justice by making an unprecedented partisan endorsement of her challenger.
GOP lawmakers also argue that the Supreme Court has been legislating from the bench in blocking laws to restrict abortion access.
The ACLU of Montana said it was not endorsing any candidates.
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IRST technology detects heat signatures from aircraft engines.
It operates passively, meaning it doesn't emit signals that can reveal user's location.
The U.S. initially developed IRST sensors in the 1950s , integrating them into jets like the F-101 and F-106 .
Russia continued to enhance and deploy IRST in its fighter jets such as the MiG-29 and Su-27.