by Beth Holmes | Jul 19, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
A huge increase in the education budget is a keystone feature of the latest spending bill in the U.S. House of Representatives. The spending legislation for fiscal year 2022 was released on July 11, 2021, by a House appropriations subcommittee. Unlike previous years...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 12, 2021 | News, Profiles, Student Issues
Ku Stevens will run 50 miles in remembrance of his great-grandfather’s escape attempts from the Stewart Indian School in Nevada. When Stevens’ great-grandfather, Frank Quinn, was a child, he was placed in the Stewart Indian School, a military-style...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 5, 2021 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
A “sanctuary schools” resolution has passed in a unanimous vote by the Philadelphia school board, promising protection to immigrant students and their families. For several months, the school board has worked with Juntos, a South Philadelphia immigrants rights...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 1, 2021 | News, Teacher Issues
Stressed teachers are not effective teachers. It’s true in any industry, but perhaps the most in these people who are responsible for the education and molding of unpredictable children and their equally unpredictable parents. “It’s concerning,” said Elizabeth...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 21, 2021 | News, Other
While student debt looks to be one of the peak issues of the current political field, school debt also ought to be part of the conversation. More than 1,200 colleges, most of them privately owned, for-profit schools, owe money to the federal Department of Education....
