by Beth Holmes | Jan 17, 2022 | News, Student Issues
The University of Pittsburgh has taken a hardline stance on vaccination: Get vaxxed, or be disenrolled. On December 6, UPitt announced a vaccine mandate – all students, faculty, and staff were required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by January 1st. The...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 10, 2022 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Insurrection Day is tomorrow, though history probably won’t call it that. Thursday, January 6 is the one year anniversary of the Capitol riot, the first violent breech of our nation’s capitol in its 221-year history. Teachers have been debating how to...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 27, 2021 | News, Other, Teacher Issues
Governor Greg Abbott of Texas announced Monday that $123.3 million in federal relief money would be going to Texas schools. The money is from the Coronavirus Response and and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, the bill passed by Congress in 2020. It contained...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 20, 2021 | News, Teacher Issues
The Chicago Board of Education has reached a $9.25 million settlement in a discrimination case over a series of layoffs that took place in 2012-14. In those years, the CBE enacted “turnaround” procedures as a matter of policy at 18 schools which were not meeting goals...
by Beth Holmes | Dec 13, 2021 | News, Teacher Issues
Teacher burnout is driving schools around the country to pull back a little from full-time in person learning. In mid-November, all Detroit public schools and a school district in Utah announced that through the rest of the calendar year, Fridays would be virtual...
