by Beth Holmes | May 16, 2022 | News, Other, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Lincoln College, a small Illinois HBC founded the year its namesake was assassinated, will close this week, following a period of financial struggle capped by a ruinous cyberattack in 2021. 2019 was a record year for Lincoln College, with their highest ever enrollment...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 11, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Book bans are being considered in more and more red states in the wake of Florida’s passing of their educational censorship “Parental Rights in Education” bill. Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas all have statewide rules to make it easy for...
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 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 | Feb 14, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Maus, the deeply evocative graphic novel about the Holocaust, was banned in a Tennessee school district for being ‘inappropriate.’ The McMinn County School Board has been reviewing the literature in their curriculum and libraries for what is appropriate...
