by Sarah Green | Jul 26, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Federal law in the U.S. requires that all children on American soil receive a free public education. Emphasis on the “all.” The law makes no distinction between children regardless of their immigration status. Despite certain claims made by anti-immigration pundits,...
by Sarah Green | Jul 18, 2018 | News, Student Issues
It was most likely an unfortunate oversight, but it was a hurtful one all the same. When Cascade View Elementary School in Western Washington handed out their yearbooks at the end of the school year, 14 students were omitted. Not because they had missed photo day or...
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...
