by Supporting Education | Feb 22, 2021 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Call Me Max, by Kyle Lukoff, is a children’s book on about the level of If You Give a Mouse A Cookie or Eloise – a story for children about ages 6-10. It’s about a young trans boy figuring out who he is and how he fits in with his friends. The book talks from Max’s...
by Supporting Education | Feb 8, 2021 | News, Student Issues
In 2018, 13 students from Providence, Rhode Island, filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Court over the quality of their education – specifically demanding that schools provide them a strong foundation in civics, or the study of how contemporary society and...
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 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...
