Pentagon schools students sue defence secretary Pete Hegseth over book bans on race and gender

April 16, 2025
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Pentagon schools students sue defence secretary Pete Hegseth over book bans on race and gender

[ad_1] A group of twelve students from Department of Defence Education Activity (DoDEA) schools are taking legal action against US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth, accusing him of violating their First Amendment rights through widespread book bans. The students, who attend Pentagon-operated schools in the US, Italy, and Japan, are being represented by the American Civil […]

April 12, 2025
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World

US air force and naval academies remove race and gender from admissions process in major policy shift

[ad_1] In a major policy shift, the United States’ air force academy has removed race, gender, and ethnicity as factors in its admissions process. This move comes after a lawsuit alleged that the institution’s approach to building class diversity was discriminatory. According to a justice department court filing on Friday, the decision was formalised in […]