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The taxpayer funded University of Arizona will become the first university in America to offer a transgender studies program. The program is set to launch by fall of 2017, and will grant master’s degrees. The school's program will focus on sex, gender, cultural issues, political issues, and the life experiences of transgender people. This new program will be the result of the university’s Transgender Studies Initiative, introduced in 2013. The school has also hired three new professors to teach in the program, and plans to hire a fourth. "The three people who had been hired were all white, and we...

School's spin: F = Fantastic. For Jeremy Hunter, the F-grade given to Mollie E. Ray Elementary this past spring does not mean the school is failing. The 11-year-old fifth-grader said it stands for fantastic or fun. "Most of our kids are good," Jeremy said Monday, after a morning pep rally on the first day of school in Orange County. "We have good teachers, and we have a good principal and a good assistant principal." Most students returned to school Monday in Orange and Volusia counties, the last two Central Florida districts to begin the year. (Excerpted. Click link for full...