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 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...
by Supporting Education | Mar 22, 2021 | News, Teacher Issues
Hawaii has been cautious through every step of the pandemic, and the state is now seeing the dividends of that prudence. One of those perks, a big one, is that educators, health officials, and union leaders have been able to reach an accord on the return to classroom...
by Supporting Education | Mar 15, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The Los Angeles Unified School District has been in deadlock with its teachers’ union about reopening schools for over eight months and has finally reached a tentative accord. In-person instruction, they announced on March 9, 2021, can begin in mid-April, making LA...
by Supporting Education | Mar 8, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
There’s been a lot of research over the past century over the question of classroom discipline. Is “spare the rod, spoil the child,” the way? Time-outs, suspension, expulsion, “school resource officers?” For most of history, discipline has been along those lines....
by Supporting Education | Mar 1, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
For years now, teachers’ unions have been pushing the federal government to allow states to opt out of the federal standardized testing requirement. But in its first major act, President Biden’s new Department of Education has announced that states will not be allowed...
by Supporting Education | Feb 22, 2021 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Call Me Max, by Kyle Lukoff, is a children’s book on about the level of If You Give a Mouse A Cookie or Eloise – a story for children about ages 6-10. It’s about a young trans boy figuring out who he is and how he fits in with his friends. The book talks from Max’s...
by Supporting Education | Feb 15, 2021 | News, Teacher Issues
In the 100-day plan from President Joe Biden, one of his pledges was to have students back in classrooms as swiftly as possible. His press secretary, Jen Psaki, was asked this week for specific benchmarks the White House was seeking to hit, but her answers varied. The...
by Supporting Education | Feb 8, 2021 | News, Student Issues
In 2018, 13 students from Providence, Rhode Island, filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court over the quality of their education – specifically demanding that schools provide them a strong foundation in civics, or the study of how contemporary society and...
