by Beth Holmes | Aug 8, 2022 | News, Other, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
School police officers study school shootings nationwide in the wake of Uvalde, hoping to do better. In 2018, the armed school police officer monitoring Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, waited outside while Nikolas Cruz killed 17 people. The...
by Beth Holmes | Jul 25, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
The Department of Education should not exist, according to former secretary of education Betsy DeVos at a conservative group event. Betsy DeVos, daughter of billionaire Edgar Prince whose brother is the founder of notorious private military Blackwater, was the U.S....
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...
