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After Her Arrest, a Young Activist Holds Onto Her ‘Why’

This article is from a special report on the Athens Democracy Forum, which gathered experts last week in the Greek capital to discuss global issues. A year ago, during the 2023 Democracy Forum in Athens, Namatai Kwekweza was awarded the Kofi Annan NextGen Democracy prize for her pro-democracy and feminist …

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Protest That the University of Maryland Sought to Prevent Goes On

A pro-Palestinian student group gathered to mourn the lives lost in the war in Gaza on Monday, following a federal judge’s ruling last week against the University of Maryland’s plan to block it. The court battle over the vigil and other events at Maryland was unusual, but universities across the …

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School Absences Rise as Special Education Fails Students, Suit Says

New York City “regularly fails” to provide special education services to students with disabilities, leading to chronic absences, according to a class-action lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Legal Aid Society. The suit seeks to confront a pervasive problem in the city’s school system, the nation’s largest. Tens of thousands of …

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