Top-seeded West Genesee and Whitesboro are back in the Section III Class AA championship for the second straight season. The Wildcats snapped a nearly 47-year championship drought last spring when ...

New York is discriminating against a school district that refuses to get rid of its Native American chief mascot and could face a Justice Department investigation or risk losing federal funding ...

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) — New York is discriminating against a school district that refuses to get rid of its Native American chief mascot and could ... to Massapequa High School on Long Island ...

McMahon described Massapequa’s chiefs mascot as an “incredible” representation of Native American leadership as she made the announcement backed by dozens of students and local officials in the high ...

The state has said school ... high school during McMahon's visit. She said in an interview that the district’s mascot is “a stereotype” that actually depicts a member of a tribe located ...

on a visit to Massapequa High School on Long Island, said an investigation by her agency has determined that state education officials violated Title VI of the federal civil rights law by banning the ...

The Department of Education launched an investigation regarding Massapequa High School's mascot, the Chiefs. The probe is to see if a regulation preventing schools from using Indigenous mascots ...