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The64, a new online voting platform is hosting its first-ever National High School Mascot Tournament. Mascots from Fair Lawn, Paterson, Verona, Mount Olive and Vineland were selected as part of ...

The School Board, and virtually everyone in the area, are demanding the name be kept,” the president wrote about the district’s high school ... argued that several mascots refer to indigenous ...

Will Fritsche earned his 200th career point as eighth-seeded Delaware Valley in a 19-1 win over 15th-seeded North Warren in the first round of the Hunterdon/Warren/Sussex Tournament, in Frenchtown ...

MASSAPEQUA, N.Y. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday it plans to investigate whether New York education officials are being discriminatory by threatening to withhold funding ...

President Donald Trump is weighing in on a school mascot dispute at Massapequa High School, where some parents are upset that a Chiefs mascot and logo must go under a state rule. By Ed Shanahan ...

The Education Department launched an investigation Friday into the New York Department of Education for threatening to withhold money from a local school district because of its Native American ...

The Los Angeles Rams beefed up the defense once again with a Day 2 pick, this time taking Michigan edge rusher Josaiah Stewart with the No. 90 selection. Stewart was a productive sack artist in ...

The move comes just days after President Donald Trump weighed in on the dispute surrounding the Massapequa High School's longtime ... over its longtime "Chiefs" mascot after New York state ...

“However, the U.S. Department of Education’s attempt to interfere with a state law concerning school district mascots is inconsistent with Secretary McMahon’s March 20, 2025 statement that ...

A marquee outside the Massapequa High School is backdropped by a "Chiefs" mascot mural, in Massapequa, N.Y., Friday, April 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) ...