by Beth Holmes | Jul 18, 2022 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
No degree needed to begin teaching in Arizona public schools, as the state looks to resolve a critical shortage. Arizona has had a teacher shortage for so long that there are 20-year veterans who owe their careers to it. As far back as 2000, the state was allowing...
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...
by Beth Holmes | Jun 6, 2022 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Armed teachers may soon be the norm in Ohio, if a bill passes removing the requirement that teachers have extensive firearms training if they wish to carry weapons at school. The current law in Ohio does allow teachers to go armed, but they must have more than 700...
by Beth Holmes | May 30, 2022 | News, Other, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Another school shooting makes the 23rd mass shooting with casualties in the United States this May, an average of almost one a day. A teenager with a gun went from class to class through Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas on Tuesday, shooting children and staff....
