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...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 4, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Religious schools may not be eligible for state tuition programs after all, if they choose to discriminate. On Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Maine isn’t allowed to exclude religious schools from a state voucher program that provides tuition to...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 27, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Carson v Makin will force taxpayers to fund religious schools, eroding the divide between church and state. It began as a small legal fight over education subsidies in Maine. Rural Maine has areas too sparsely populated for public schools, and families in those areas...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 20, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Sexist dress codes for children are unconstitutional, says the U.S. 4th Circuit Court about a North Carolina school wanting to force little girls to wear skirts. The Charter Day School in Leland, North Carolina was founded in 2000 with a curriculum out of 1900,...
