The U.S. Department of Education announced 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 ...

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 ...

But a handful have resisted it, and perhaps nowhere has the backlash been more potent and enduring than in Massapequa and some other districts on Long Island. The mascot’s logo and its name are ...

High-profile tribal activists backed a Long Island school in its fight to keep its team name despite a state ban on Native American logos – joining a President Trump rallying cry. Frank Black ...

With John Asbury Local officials and community members on Long Island said they will continue to fight a state mandate requiring schools eliminate Native American mascots and team names ...

He called the state policy “woke.” Blakeman defended the use of Native Americans and their iconography as mascots, saying that Long Island is a supporter of its local Native American populations.

Thirteen Long Island school districts have been affected — nine have already complied. Massapequa is one of the hold outs. They sued in state and federal court to keep their name and mascot ...

President Donald Trump posted support for Massapequa Union Free School District’s bid to keep its Chiefs mascot despite the ...

President Donald Trump said Monday that the Massapequa school district should be allowed to keep its name and logo. Trump posted on Truth Social that he has asked U.S. Secretary of Education ...

President Trump is getting involved in a battle over a Long Island high school's Native American team name and mascot. Trump posted on Truth Social in part, "I agree with the people in Massapequa ...

President Trump has thrown his support behind a Long Island school district’s fight to keep its mascot after New York’s State Education Board banned the use of Native American-inspired names ...