by Beth Holmes | May 31, 2021 | News, Student Issues
An Aquinnah Wampanoag woman is about to become the first of her tribe to attend Harvard Law School, closing a 360-year-old circle that began with one of her ancestors. When Harvard University was founded over 370 years ago, its original charter called for “provisions...
by Beth Holmes | May 24, 2021 | News, Student Issues
Charles Barkley graduated from Leeds High School in 1981, a small high school in a community outside Birmingham, Alabama. Leeds is a poor school, with over half of its student body qualifying for subsidized meals and fewer than 500 students, but a strong one. About 82...
by Beth Holmes | May 14, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
On Tuesday, May 11, the United States Department of Education released a package of federal aid for colleges and universities that amounts to just over $36 billion. The money, part of the latest pandemic relief package, will go to shore up the over 5000 colleges and...
by Beth Holmes | May 10, 2021 | News, Teacher Issues
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed a “teacher pipeline” bill, along with a half-dozen other education-aimed bills, on Tuesday, May 4th. His priority was Senate Bill 88, which is aimed at making teaching more accessible and more attractive. It includes new certification...
by Beth Holmes | May 3, 2021 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Senate Bill 1456 in Arizona would have been one of the strictest laws regarding sex education in the country. It would have banned any and all sex education before fifth grade, and required parental approval for any related topic up to 12th grade, including the mere...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 26, 2021 | News, Student Issues
It’s not new for colleges to require vaccinations. Most four-year institutions in the country (between 80 and 90 percent) require at least the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine, which most importantly protects against measles. While measles is rarely fatal in young...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 19, 2021 | News, Student Issues
On the afternoon of April 13, 2021, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren held a hearing on the topic of debt cancellation for student loans. “America is facing a student loan time bomb that, when it explodes, could throw millions of families over a financial cliff,”...
by Supporting Education | Apr 12, 2021 | News, Student Issues
In December 2018, Education Corporation of America abruptly closed all of its 70-odd affiliated campuses, leaving almost 20,000 full-time students in the cold. The closure happened immediately after the for-profit program lost its Department of Education...
by Supporting Education | Apr 5, 2021 | News
Out of all of the possible complications presented by First Lady Jill Biden wanting to continue teaching through her husband’s presidency, almost nobody expected the two sticking points to be her name and how she files her taxes. From 2008 to 2016, while Biden was...
by Supporting Education | Mar 29, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
In the same month as the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan stimulus bill, President Biden’s White House is preparing a new funding package to promote recovery. And this one is even larger. According to administration sources, the new infrastructure bill preparing to...
