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• NYC schools to get audible alarms after boy's escape, death
• Barnard joins other women's colleges in admitting transgender women
• Women's Colleges Welcome Transgender Students
• Policies on transgender admissions at women's colleges
• Native Americans battle schools over graduation feathers
• 'Degrassi' Canceled After 14 Seasons
• Teachers stage new anti-election protests in Mexico

NYC schools to get audible alarms after boy's escape, death Posted: 04 Jun 2015 02:03 PM PDT New York City is installing 21,000 audible door alarms at public schools to prevent another tragedy like the disappearance and death of an autistic student in 2013, city education officials said Thursday. ...

Barnard joins other women's colleges in admitting transgender women Posted: 04 Jun 2015 12:10 PM PDT By Katie Reilly NEW YORK (Reuters) - Barnard College said on Thursday that it would begin accepting transgender women for the first time, joining a growing number of women's schools that have put similar policies in place this year. Barnard, an elite women's school that operates in partnership with New York's Columbia University, was founded in 1889 and currently has 2,400 students. As a women's college, Barnard will continue to deny admission to people who were born female but now identify as male.

Women's Colleges Welcome Transgender Students Posted: 04 Jun 2015 10:23 AM PDT Acknowledging a "recognition of our changing world and an evolving understanding of gender identity," Barnard College became the last of the traditional Seven Sister schools to admit transgender women on Thursday.

Policies on transgender admissions at women's colleges Posted: 04 Jun 2015 08:38 AM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — Barnard College issued a new policy Thursday saying it will now admit transgender women. The decision at the Manhattan campus follows those at a number of women's colleges across the country over the past year. The policies, which all acknowledge changing norms regarding gender, differ in their breadth. Here's a look at some of them:

Native Americans battle schools over graduation feathers Posted: 04 Jun 2015 08:26 AM PDT By Lenzy Krehbiel-Burton TULSA, Okla (Reuters) - High school senior Hayden Griffith, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and Delaware Tribe in Oklahoma, was given an eagle feather by a tribal elder to wear on her cap at graduation, a traditional symbol of great personal accomplishment. The Caney Valley Public Schools district north of Tulsa told her the feather was not appropriate and graduation regalia for all should be free of extra adornments. The fight was one of many that emerged during graduation season nationwide, including in Oklahoma, which has the country's second-highest percentage of Native Americans in its population.

'Degrassi' Canceled After 14 Seasons Posted: 03 Jun 2015 09:00 PM PDT The iconic teen drama about Toronto high school students launched the young careers of the rapper Drake and '90210's Shenae Grimes.

Teachers stage new anti-election protests in Mexico Posted: 03 Jun 2015 08:43 PM PDT Parents of 43 missing students clashed with riot police in southern Mexico while radical teachers blocked an airport and ransacked an electoral office elsewhere in new protests against upcoming elections. Felipe de la Cruz, a spokesman fore the parents, said police had blocked buses carrying more than 100 relatives of the missing young men and fellow students from the Ayotzinapa teacher college who were heading to Guerrero state's capital, Chilpancingo.

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