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• North Carolina students sue U.S. over stance on bathroom access
• Northeast High students bike to school
• Organizations Pledge to Help Educate Student Loan Borrowers
• UNC head on LBGT law: Colleges can't run without fed funds

North Carolina students sue U.S. over stance on bathroom access Posted: 11 May 2016 03:33 PM PDT WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (Reuters) - A group of North Carolina public school students and their parents is asking a U.S. court to block two federal agencies from withholding education funding in a dispute over a state law mandating bathroom access according to birth sex. The conservative Alliance Defending Freedom filed the complaint on Tuesday on behalf of a group called "North Carolinians for Privacy." It is the fifth lawsuit to seek judicial input on the law enacted in March. The group said the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education had improperly held that provisions of federal law banning discrimination in education settings on the basis of sex apply to gender identity.

Northeast High students bike to school Posted: 11 May 2016 02:55 PM PDT Approximately twenty Northeast High School students hit the road Wednesday morning extra early, trading in the school bus for bicycles.

Organizations Pledge to Help Educate Student Loan Borrowers Posted: 11 May 2016 07:00 AM PDT The Student Loan Ranger is starting to have a hard time keeping up with all of this good news. A few weeks ago we posted about some very positive changes initiated by the Department of Education to make things a little easier for student loan borrowers and their families. Just a few days later, the department and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau announced a few more.

UNC head on LBGT law: Colleges can't run without fed funds Posted: 10 May 2016 06:26 PM PDT CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — Leaders of North Carolina's public universities met Tuesday to grapple with a looming threat that the federal government could withhold billions of dollars if the state loses a legal battle over transgender students and bathrooms.

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