Harvard has America’s largest endowment at $53 billion as of the end of the 2021 fiscal year. Getty The booming stock market of late 2020 and early 2021 produced an exceptional year for college ...
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California Will Keep School Mask Mandate For At Least Two More Weeks — Even As State Lifts Indoor Mandate
Topline California will keep in place its mask mandate for school children for at least two more weeks even though the state’s indoor mask mandate for vaccinated Californians is set to expire Wednesda...
Attacks On Charter Schools Places Their Muni Bonds In Jeopardy
University Heights Charter School in Newark NJ appears to have become the victim of New Jersey’s teachers union fight to end charter schools in that state. In this case, it is at the cost of bon...
Biden Administration Threatens To Revoke Arizona Stimulus Funds Used For Anti-Mask Mandate Programs At Schools
Topline The Treasury Department is threatening to revoke more than $170 million in federal stimulus money and withhold future funds from Arizona, it informed the state Friday, after Arizona Gov. Doug ...
Chicago Public Schools Classes To Resume On Wednesday After Teachers Union Agrees To Deal On Covid Safeguards
Topline Chicago Public School students will return to classrooms on Wednesday after leaders of the Chicago Teachers Union approved the school district’s plan on Covid-19 safety protocols late on Monda...
Chicago Shutters Schools For 2nd Day Amid Covid-Driven Standoff With Teachers’ Union
Topline Chicago Public Schools canceled all in-person and remote classes Thursday, shutting down the nation’s third-largest school district for a second day amid a stalemate between city officials and...
Florida Schools Unwilling To Defy DeSantis Again, Won’t Reimpose Student Mask Mandates
Topline As the omicron coronavirus variant surges in Florida and spurs new concerns about Covid-19 transmission in schools, the eight Florida school districts that defied a a state ban on school mask ...
Amid another Covid surge, schools and businesses find plans disrupted
A healthcare worker administers a COVID-19 PCR test at a free test site in Farragut Square on December 28, 2021 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images A Covid-19 outbreak on a cruise in Lis...