by Beth Holmes | Mar 20, 2023 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The Texas takeover of Houston schools has many enraged, in a state that makes much of regional rights over widespread authority. On Wednesday, Texas education commissioner Mike Morath announced that the state would be taking over Houston’s public school...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 13, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a new education bill on Wednesday, one that ties important things like a higher minimum salary for teachers to new restrictions on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity. The Good: The bill...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 6, 2023 | News, Student Issues
Student loan forgiveness is, as for the past several years, a political firestorm and a point of national division. President Joe Biden’s administration has a plan to ease or erase the student debt of up to 43 million people, approximately one in eight...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 27, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
A Kentucky bill aimed at solving their teacher shortage is moving forward through the state House of Representatives. House Bill 319 is a multi-feature bill aimed at getting more teachers into classrooms. Every county in Kentucky but one reports a shortage of...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 22, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
Bernie Sanders has promised to fight for a $60,000 minimum salary for public school teachers in a town hall speech this week. “We should be paying public school teachers a minimum of at least $60,000 a year,” Sanders said at a town hall in Washington D.C. on Monday...
