by Beth Holmes | Apr 4, 2022 | News, Other, Student Issues
Title IX rules will soon protect the rights of transgender students, say sources inside the Department of Education. Title IX is the federal civil rights law that prohibits sex-based discrimination in schools or any educational program that uses federal funding. “No...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 1, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
A million absent students in the 2020-21 school year have teachers concerned about the graduating classes for the next 12 years. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) reported on a Gallup survey that targeted teachers in the U.S. In the survey, nearly half of all...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 21, 2022 | News, Teacher Issues
San Francisco teachers are staging an overnight protest in their district office, and it will continue until they’re paid, they say. The San Francisco Unified School District migrated to a new payroll system in January, according to teachers. And since they...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 14, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Florida students walk out over the state’s proposed “Can’t Say Gay” bill, which passed in the the state senate on Tuesday morning. HB 1557, officially called the Parental Rights in Education bill, or the “Can’t Say Gay” bill by its opposers, passed...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 7, 2022 | News, Other
Skoltech, a Russian graduate university, is being cut off by MIT over the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In 2011, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology partnered with the Russian government to found the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, generally known...
