Education Secretary Linda McMahon announced Friday that New York violated civil rights law by banning the use of Native American mascots and logos by schools in the state, threatening to pull ...

The state Board of Regents in 2023 banned the use of Native American mascots, team names and logos in public schools. The regulation affected 13 districts on Long Island, including Massapequa ...

CENTERS AND OTHER RESOURCES YOU MAY NEED. WELL, IN OTHER NEWS TODAY, CAL MIDDLE SCHOOL IN SACRAMENTO WAS ON A BRIEF LOCKDOWN DUE TO A THREAT. WE’RE TOLD SACRAMENTO POLICE REQUESTED THAT THE ...

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon made a visit to a New York high school that was forced by the state to get rid of its Native American mascot. New York in 2023 ordered its high schools to ...

LONG ISLAND (PIX11) – Massapequa High School is the home of the Chiefs, and the mascot has the attention of President Trump. U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon toured the school Friday ...

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A marquee outside the Massapequa High School is backdropped by a “Chiefs” mascot mural, in Massapequa, N.Y., Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) AP U.S. News ...

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) — New York is discriminating against a school district that is refusing a state order to get rid of its Native American chief mascot, President Donald Trump’s top ...

The state was requiring districts to phase out mascots and logos by the end of this school year. McMahon claims state education officials are trying to erase Massapequa’s history.

Secretary of Education Linda McMahon says her department found regulations adopted in 2023 that ban some Indigenous names and mascots in New York’s public schools violate the Civil Rights Act.

After the state forced a Long Island school district to abandon its “Chief” mascot, federal education ... The ban had set off a backlash in Massapequa, a middle-class hamlet on Long Island ...

Massapequa High School is the home of the Chiefs, and the mascot has the attention of President Trump. California’s National Guard lawsuit against Trump has a big problem Former star gymnast Dee ...