by Supporting Education | Feb 1, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is the third largest school district in the U.S., with more than a third of a million students. In March 2020, like most school districts around the world, it pivoted to full-time online education. Since then, educators have seen the...
by Supporting Education | Jan 25, 2021 | News, Student Issues
In the fall of 2020, former President Donald Trump established the 1776 Commission to promote “patriotic education” (by which they really meant “nationalist propaganda”) in public schools. The commission, which consisted of 18 of Trump’s allies but no historians and...
by Supporting Education | Jan 18, 2021 | News
On January 7, 2021, a day after the violent insurrection in the U.S. Capitol that left six people dead, including two police officers beaten to death by the mob, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos resigned from her position via a letter she sent to President Trump....
by Supporting Education | Jan 11, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
On January 5, 2021, a heated debate in the Salt Lake City Board of Education came to a close with a 5-2 vote. The ruling: junior high and high schools won’t reopen in February as planned, postponed instead until teachers can be fully vaccinated. The delay runs counter...
by Supporting Education | Jan 4, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
“Safety is key,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom in a press conference the morning of December 30, 2020, about starting to reopen California schools in the near future. “Just reopening a school for in-person instruction on its own is not going to address the...
