by Sarah Green | Jul 4, 2018 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Fifteen years ago, Ricky Arnold was a middle school science teacher with an incurable wanderlust. His career as a teacher took him from Maryland to the Middle East to the islands of the Pacific. But even that wasn’t enough. In 2006, Arnold completed Astronaut...
by Sarah Green | Jun 27, 2018 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
“A community without a school…is a vacant community,” Verónica Dávila, a second-grade teacher at a rural Puerto Rico school, told Vox. “It’s actually a dead community.” Puerto Rico’s educational crisis hardly began with Hurricane Maria, but the weather catastrophe has...
by Sarah Green | Jun 20, 2018 | News, Student Issues
With the end of the school year looming in Westbrook School Department in Maine, Superintendent Peter Lancia was trying to settle the budget. There was a large red entry in the ledgers: nearly $17,000 of lunch debt. Lunch debt is common in school districts all over...
by Sarah Green | Jun 15, 2018 | News, Student Issues
In 2013, Chicago’s school district had a $1 billion hole in their budget. The deficit was years in the making, despite numerous local tax levies passing to try to fill it. When the district closed 50 schools as a result, they promised the families of relocated...
by Sarah Green | Jun 6, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Tim Cook, CEO of technology giant Apple, is on a mission to make coding a universal skill. “Apple is celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day by making coding more inclusive for students across the country. Because when we say Everyone Can Code, we mean...
