United States Education Secretary Linda McMahon spoke to the Massapequa School District on Friday as a Native American school ...

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) — New York is discriminating against a school district that refuses to get rid of its Native American ...

A marquee outside Massapequa High School in Massapequa, N.Y., is backdropped by a Chiefs mascot mural on April 25, 2025. The ...

U.S. Secretary of Education McMahon is planning on calling on New York state to sign a resolution to allow the Chiefs and other mascots to stay ...

He had already formed the Alvin C. York Foundation to increase education opportunities in rural Tennessee by providing a new vocational school called the York Agricultural Institute. The Great ...

New York has been trying to rid schools of Native American mascots going back more than two decades to the administration of Republican Gov. George Pataki, and in 2022 gave districts until the end ...

But as the Chickasaw Nation member grew up and learned about his Indigenous roots, he came to see the school's mascot — a stereotypical Native American man wearing a headdress — as problematic.