Students fill the stairwell in between classes at a high school in Minneapolis on Jan. 22, 2026. The U.S. Department of Education has released data designed to highlight disparities in schools, but it did so quietly and without issuing a report highlighting top-line findings.
A worker attaches a rope as they prepare to remove the statue of Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson from its pedestal on July 1, 2020, in Richmond, Va. The Shenandoah County school board in Virginia—which scrapped the Confederate names for two schools in 2020 and then restored them in 2024—is now under court order to rename the schools.
Steve Helber/AP Photo
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