by Beth Holmes | Aug 8, 2022 | News, Other, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
School police officers study school shootings nationwide in the wake of Uvalde, hoping to do better. In 2018, the armed school police officer monitoring Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, waited outside while Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people. The...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 1, 2022 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
First Lady Jill Biden and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona will spend some of this week visiting summer learning programs on their education tour. The American Rescue Plan, which applied $1.9 trillion to various pandemic-related problems across the country, includes...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 25, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
The Department of Education should not exist, according to former secretary of education Betsy DeVos at a conservative group event. Betsy DeVos, daughter of billionaire Edgar Prince whose brother is the founder of notorious private military Blackwater, was the U.S....
by Beth Holmes | Jul 18, 2022 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
No degree needed to begin teaching in Arizona public schools, as the state looks to resolve a critical shortage. Arizona has had a teacher shortage for so long that there are 20-year veterans who owe their careers to it. As far back as 2000, the state was allowing...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 11, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Venezuelan migrant children are being turned away from schools in their host countries, according to their families and major surveys. An estimated 5.4 million refugees have left Venezuela in the last eight years, fleeing economic collapse and violent political...