{"id":109595,"date":"2026-01-23T11:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109595\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T11:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T11:02:22","slug":"news-12-the-bronx-105","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/109595\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | The Bronx"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Suffolk County school district is under fire for complying with a state order.<\/p>\n<p>The United States Department of Education says Connetquot School District violated the Civil Rights Act when it changed its Thunderbirds mascot to &#8220;T-Birds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The district made the change to comply with a New York State ban on Native American imagery and mascots in schools.<\/p>\n<p>Connetquot officials say they are reviewing the federal report.<\/p>\n<p>News 12 reached out to the state for comment and are waiting to hear back. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Suffolk County school district is under fire for complying with a state order. The United States Department&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,49230,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-109595","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-bronx","8":"tag-bronx","9":"tag-mascot","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-nyc","13":"tag-the-bronx","14":"tag-the-bronx-headlines","15":"tag-the-bronx-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}