Massapequa is among several Long Island districts that could lose state funding if they keep Native American mascots.

The U.S. Department of Education announced Friday it plans to investigate whether New York education officials are being ...

President Donald Trump is weighing in on a school mascot dispute at Massapequa High School, where some parents are upset that ...

The Massapequa School Board president has said it could cost more than $1 million to rebrand the school if the name and ...

For Native American students, exposure to Native American mascots reduces self-esteem, their ability to imagine future ...

In one community on Long Island, New York, there’s a motto that’s hard to miss: “Once a Chief, always a Chief.” It’s on ...

New York’s education leaders moved to ban Native American-inspired mascots in 2022, drawing a lawsuit from the Massapequa ...

High-profile tribal activists backed a Long Island school in its fight to keep its team name despite a state ban on Native ...

The department made the announcement Friday, April 25, saying the Office for Civil Rights will look into whether the state’s ...

The four holdout districts filed a lawsuit against the mascot ban in 2023. U.S. Chief District Judge Margo K. Brodie ...

The president posted Monday that he had asked the secretary of education "to fight for the people of Massapequa" as the ...