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Navient has settled a lawsuit with 39 states, alleging that the student loan company was acting in a predatory manner when giving loans to borrowers who were accumulating billions in debt—an absurd amount that they likely could never pay back. Per the New York Times, Navient’s $1.85 billion deal means the company has to pay $95 million […]
Meek Mill and Kevin Hart continue to bless their hometown of Philadelphia. In partnership with Michael Rubin, the Philly natives have pledged to collectively donate $15 million to 110 schools in and around the City of Brotherly Love. The Philly Voice reports the gift, which marks the largest donation ever made by the men, will help thousands of lower-income students pay for tuition […]
Progressive members of the Democratic Party think that further action needs to be taken regarding student debt, especially as the 2022 midterms are looming. They feel that it could, in fact, cost the Democrats to lose voters and seats if the Biden administration doesn’t make good on canceling student loan debt. Progressive Democrats expressed their […]
An Ohio high school football player is suing his former coaches and school district for allegedly forcing him to eat pepporoni pizza despite his religious beliefs. The Associated Press reports the former Canton McKinley High School athlete has filed a federal civil rights suit that alleges his religious freedom and constitutional rights were violated. As a member of […]
Vinod Menon walked into his department’s office and was greeted by a pile of mail. Menon, a professor and chair of physics at the City College of New York, returned to the school on Sept. 1 following a lengthy period of at-home learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What stood out among the many letters was […]
A Muskogee, Oklahoma sixth-grader was on his Marvel superhero mode after he saved his fellow classmate from choking and helped a woman get out of a burning home on the same day. According to KTUL, Davyon Johnson had a very memorable day on Dec. 9 when he performed the Heimlich maneuver on one of his classmates who […]
School districts across the country are on high alert in response to anonymous threats of violence being made on TikTok. Per local new reports, districts in California, Texas, Minnesota, and Missouri announced plans to close down Friday after anonymous shooting and bomb threats were made on TikTok. USA Today reports schools in Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Montana, New York and Pennsylvania increased their […]
A substitute teacher at a Florida high school has been charged with sexually battering a student after an alleged video shared on Snapchat showed her having sex with a student. The Polk County Sheriff’s Office Polk announced Tuesday in a news release Ayanna Davis, 20, of Lakeland, FL, has been arrested after admitting she had unprotected sex with a […]
Unlike the beloved Joe Byron, who the whole internet was going to give a big-ole kiss just a few weeks back, the actual U.S. President Joe Biden isn’t seeing much love on Twitter. And he will apparently not be doing any executive order magic to wipe student loan debt as many had hoped. As announced by press […]
Students at Arizona State University are planning a rally to demand the removal of Kyle Rittenhouse from studying at their school. Rittenhouse, the now-18-year-old who killed two people and shot another after carrying an AR-15 style rifle at a Kenosha protest in 2020, was found not guilty on all counts in his homicide trial earlier this […]
