A Volleyball Team Is Torn Apart By The War Over Trans Athletes
What happens to a team when politics comes into the gym. PLUS: A high school boy explains why his classmates love Andrew Tate so much.
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In this edition:
Education Department Stops $1 Billion In Funding For School Mental Health
HHS Plans To Cut the National Suicide Hotline’s Program For LGBTQ Youth
How a School Nurse Convinced Parents to Vaccinate Their Kids Against Measles
Far-right Fight Groups Endorse ‘Youth Clubs’ Targeting US Young Men And Boys
These Young Men Were Sucked Into The Manosphere. Here's How They Found A Way Out.
Boys at My High School Love the Tate Brothers. Here’s Why.
How the War Over Trans Athletes Tore a Volleyball Team Apart
Education Department Stops $1 Billion In Funding For School Mental Health (NPR)
The Trump administration says it will stop paying out $1 billion in federal grants that school districts across the country have been using to hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
The U.S. Department of Education is telling impacted districts that the Biden administration, in awarding the grants, violated "the letter or purpose of Federal civil rights law."
The grants were part of the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act — a bill passed in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which a teen gunman killed 19 elementary school students and two adults and injured 17 people. The bill, among other things, poured federal dollars into schools to address rising concerns about a student mental health crisis. READ MORE
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