Yale and Harvard law schools are pulling out of the U.S. News & World Report rankings that they have been at the top of for decades. It's the biggest challenge to date for the beleaguered college-ranking industry, which is under intense scrutiny. Yale Law — ranked No. 1 every year since the list began in 1990 — called the rankings "profoundly flawed." The top schools on the list are known as the T-14, and provide the vast majority of the Supreme Court's clerks. Axios
Women will make up about a quarter of the Senate once
the next session of Congress begins. That’s a major reversal from
historical norms in which there were not only more men than women in the
Senate, but more men named John than women. Axios
Hundreds of thousands of homeless students go uncounted by school districts, leaving the students without federally mandated protections. A new analysis by the Center for Public Integrity suggests roughly 300,000 homeless students were not identified by their school districts. Under federal law, districts must provide transportation and other services to students without stable housing, who tend to have worse academic outcomes than their peers and are disproportionately Black or Latino. Read more.
The Senate took a big step toward protecting same-sex marriage.
- How? By advancing the Respect for Marriage Act. Twelve Republicans joined Democrats to support the bill yesterday, which clears the way for it to pass this week.
- Why it’s needed: Democrats have warned that marriage equality and other rights could be at risk after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade earlier this year.
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