The debt ceiling legislation would end the pause on student loan payments on Aug. 30 at the latest.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida at a bill-signing event this month.

“Fearless progress toward justice often meets ferocious pushback from the oldest and most sinister of forces,” President Biden told Howard University’s graduating class.

Medical workers treating patients with Covid-19 at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in January 2022, when the Omicron wave was in full force.

Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has campaigned against what he has described as “woke indoctrination” in the classroom.

Demonstrators supporting trans rights in Washington last week.

Students walking between classes at the University of Idaho. The state will ban student ID cards as a form of voter identification, one of few successes for Republicans targeting young voters this year.

The bill passed by House Republicans has no chance in the Democratic-controlled Senate but appeals to many of the party’s most conservative voters.

A current first grade history lesson in use in Florida.

“The work of the family is real work,” said Erika Bachiochi, a legal scholar who calls herself a pro-life feminist and has written influential essays and books.

At New College of Florida, in Sarasota, Gov. Ron DeSantis removed six of the school’s 13 trustees, replacing them with allies holding strongly conservative views.

There had long been talk about the need for an Advanced Placement course focused on the Black experience. Now in a pilot program for African American studies, Rachel Williams-Giordano instructed the students Agustina Leon Perdomo, 16, center, and Riley Ferrell, 16, at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, Mass.

In January, demonstrators in Tallahassee protested policies restricting how issues of race are taught in Florida schools, including the decision by the administration of Gov. Ron DeSantis to reject a proposed Advanced Placement course in African American studies.

Dakotah LaVigne’s tumultuous educational journey has been marked by a series of tactics, known as informal removals, that schools secretly use to remove challenging students with disabilities from class.

Anthony Cruz, a third-grader at P.S. 11 in the Bronx, used to hate going to school because he struggled with reading.

Representative Jim Jordan, Republican of Ohio, argues that the Justice Department has victimized and attempted to silence conservative parents.

Sugar and salt will now be limited in school meals at the same time foods with whole grains will be increased according to new guidelines by the Biden administration.