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Education Secretary Cardona encourages UConn grads in speech

By DAVE COLLINS - Associated Press

Former U.S. education secretary runs for Maryland governor

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Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and U.S. Secretary Betsy DeVos take a tour Thursday, Oct. 15, 2020, of the Phoenix International Academy in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Virus cases at Arizona school send hundreds into quarantine

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FILE - In this Thursday, Sept. 29, 2016, file photo, then-Education Secretary John King Jr. speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington. John King, Jr., who served as U.S. education secretary in former President Barack Obama’s administration, announced Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, he is forming a political nonprofit organization called Strong Future Maryland to focus on battling systemic racism. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Former Obama education secretary forms political group

By BRIAN WITTE - Associated Press

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, center right, greets students as they arrive for in-person classes outside Public School 188 The Island School, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2020, in the Manhattan borough of New York. Hundreds of thousands of elementary school students are heading back to classrooms starting Tuesday as New York City enters a high-stakes phase of resuming in-person learning during the coronavirus pandemic. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

In NYC and LA, returning pupils face battery of virus tests

By CAROLYN THOMPSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 5, 2018, file photo, people walk through the Princeton University campus in Princeton, N.J. The Trump administration has opened an investigation into racial bias at Princeton University, Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, saying that the school's recent acknowledgment of racism on campus amounts to a &quot;shocking&quot; and &quot;serious&quot; admission of discrimination. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Princeton faces federal inquiry after acknowledging racism

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

In this July 16, 2019, photo, people stop to record images of Widener Library on the campus of Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. A federal appeals court will hear arguments Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, in a lawsuit alleging that Harvard illegally discriminates against Asian Americans in its admissions process. The plaintiff appealed after a federal judge ruled in favor of Harvard in 2019. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) **FILE**

Judges scrutinize suit’s claims in Harvard racial bias case

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

In this Feb. 5, 2018, file photo, Larry Nassar, former sports doctor who admitted molesting some of the nation's top gymnasts, appears in Eaton County Court in Charlotte, Mich. (Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via AP, File)

Michigan State’s Nassar review mostly clears staff

By ED WHITE - Associated Press

A restaurant employee wearing a protective face mask to help curb the spread of the coronavirus offer a joss sticks on a huge incense burner in the Asakusa district in Tokyo Monday, July 27, 2020. The Japanese capital confirmed Monday more than 100 new coronavirus cases. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

The Latest: Masks now required for all of Australian state

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FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2020, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pauses as she testifies during a hearing of a House Appropriations Sub-Committee on the fiscal year 2021 budget on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Trump administration is barring most international students and all students who entered the U.S. illegally from receiving emergency college grants approved by Congress as part of a $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package. DeVos issued the restriction in new guidelines released Tuesday, April 21, 2020, telling colleges how to distribute more than $6 billion in grants meant to help students cover unexpected costs triggered by the pandemic. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Education Department targets employers over wage garnishment

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room, Friday, March 27, 2020, in Washington, as Vice President Mike Pence listens. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

54,000 still getting pay held over student debt, filing says

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2020, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos pauses as she testifies during a hearing of a House Appropriations Sub-Committee on the fiscal year 2021 budget on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Trump administration is barring most international students and all students who entered the U.S. illegally from receiving emergency college grants approved by Congress as part of a $2.2 trillion coronavirus rescue package. DeVos issued the restriction in new guidelines released Tuesday, April 21, 2020, telling colleges how to distribute more than $6 billion in grants meant to help students cover unexpected costs triggered by the pandemic. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

DeVos not enforcing pause on wage garnishments, lawsuit says

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 13, 2020, file photo Ohio state senate candidate Melissa Ackison, left, and other protesters stand outside the Statehouse Atrium where reporters listen during the State of Ohio's Coronavirus response update at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, Ohio. The unprecedented national effort to shut down much of daily life to slow the spread of COVID-19 is prompting a growing number of protests. (Joshua A. Bickel/The Columbus Dispatch via AP, File)

Pro-Trump protesters push back on stay-at-home orders

By SARA BURNETT and BRIAN SLODYSKO - Associated Press

Michigan school district votes to drop Redskins nickname

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Michigan school district might drop Redskins next week

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FILE - In this Dec. 13, 2018, file photo, a gate opens to the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Mass. The U.S. Education Department said Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2020, it is investigating foreign gifts made to Harvard and Yale as part of a broader review of international money flowing to American universities. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

Education Department probes foreign gifts to Yale, Harvard

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FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2012, file photo, the Wisconsin state capitol dome becomes a backdrop as President Barack Obama waves to photographers as he greets supporters at a campaign event in downtown Madison, Wis. Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to give a speech Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, possibly the first visit by a sitting vice president or president inside Wisconsin's state Capitol building in its 103-year history , but Democratic Gov. Tony Evers won't be in his office just a few feet away when it happens. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Pence touts school choice in liberal capital of Wisconsin

By SCOTT BAUER - Associated Press

UNC to update policies following complaint of anti-Semitism

By COLLIN BINKLEY - Associated Press

In this July 16, 2019, file photo, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos listens during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. The Trump administration is threatening to cut grant funding to a Middle East studies program at the University of North Carolina and Duke University, saying it’s misusing federal funding to advance “ideological priorities” and unfairly promotes “the positive aspects of Islam” but not Christianity or Judaism. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

The Latest: Education Department responds to ACLU letter

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FILE - In this June 12, 2017, file photo, Maryland Attorney General Brian Frosh speaks during a news conference in Washington. Frosh and a coalition of state lawmakers have asked U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos why so many people are being denied by the federal Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Md. lawmakers, AG question DeVos on loan forgiveness program

By Elliott Davis and Capital News Service - Associated Press