Sherman Alexie

SAN JOSE — A former teacher was arrested Monday on suspicion that he sexually assaulted a minor on the campus of a San Jose middle school where he was employed more than five years ago, according to authorities. Police said that 36-year-old…
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BY THALIA BEATY | Associated Press The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced the 2023 class of fellows, often known as recipients of the “genius grant,” on Wednesday. The 20 fellows will each receive a grant of $800,000…
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By Helena San Roque | CalMatters California State University student workers are one step closer to unionizing after announcing Wednesday, Oct. 4 that the California Public Employment Relations Board has deemed there is enough student…
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By Lea Skene and Denise Lavoie | Associated Press BALTIMORE — A shooting interrupted a homecoming week celebration at Baltimore’s Morgan State University on Tuesday, wounding five people and prompting an hourslong lockdown of the…
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The Hayward Unified School District has cut ties with a teacher whose lessons excused Hitler and spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, more than 10 months after students gathered evidence, then brought forward their disturbing complaints…
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By Nikki Carvajal and Katie Lobosco | CNN The Biden administration has approved debt relief for an additional 125,000 student loan borrowers, totaling $9 billion in forgiveness, the White House said Wednesday. The announcement comes just…
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A new examination of the abuses children suffered at Native American boarding schools in Colorado identified at least 65 students who died more than a century ago at the state’s two most prominent schools, the grim legacy of a federal…
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By Jocelyn Solis-Moreira | CNN Marianne had a phone call she would never forget. Her daughter’s preschool called and asked her to pick up her child because she had lice. As someone who had never dealt with lice growing up and whose older…
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Thirty-nine Saratoga students are among nearly 1,140 Bay Area students named as semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship Program, a countrywide competition among high school seniors. Calvin J. Cha, Karen W. Gong,  Sania Jain, Prital…
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Dozens of students from public and private high schools in San Jose’s Willow Glen, Rose Garden and Almaden Valley neighborhoods are among nearly 1,140 Bay Area high school seniors named as semifinalists in the National Merit Scholarship…
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