by Supporting Education | Aug 9, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
The Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, created in 2007, was meant to help professionals struggling under mounting education costs. Ideally, someone with federal student loan debt who works for a qualifying employer for 10 years while paying down their debt would...
by Supporting Education | Aug 2, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Like many schools, Wyoming Valley West School District in Pennsylvania struggles with the issue of lunch debt. In the 2018-19 school year, students who could not afford to pay for breakfasts and lunches racked up a total of over $20,000 in debt across the district....
by Supporting Education | Jul 25, 2019 | News, Student Issues
In a lawsuit brought by students and parents to federal court over the state of Rhode Island’s education—particularly the lack of civics education among its students—the state’s department of education has an interesting defense. They’re not claiming the students are...
by Supporting Education | Jul 12, 2019 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
There is a discrepancy in the numbers that come out of rural schools. They have higher graduation rates than urban schools (80 percent vs. 68 percent), but graduates of rural schools are less likely to go to college or finish their degrees. The numbers suggest that...
by Supporting Education | Jul 5, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Every vehicle on the road requires seat belts, except for buses. It feels like an accident of lawmaking: the highest-density vehicles don’t require their 15 to 75 passengers to be restrained, including school buses carrying children as young as 4. School bus accidents...
by Supporting Education | Jul 1, 2019 | News, Student Issues
In Twin Falls, Idaho, a middling-sized city towards the South edge of the state, yogurt company Chobani operates a plant that added about 7,000 jobs to the area when they moved in in late 2012. That’s more than a tenth of the city’s population, and the plant is the...
by Supporting Education | Jun 24, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Occasionally in school, behavioral issues require students to be restrained or separated for the safety of themselves or others. The Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education requires schools to report each time this happens, since restraint and...
by Supporting Education | Jun 14, 2019 | Student Issues
In 2016, a team from Tufts University School of Medicine (TUSM) in Massachusetts met at nearby Josiah Quincy Upper School (JQUS), a public high school, to give health and hygiene talks tailored to the school’s special needs students. Afterwards, school personnel...
by Supporting Education | May 31, 2019 | News, Student Issues
A private school in Guwahati, a city in the North of India, is finding its own path forward to teach poor children, and to combat exploitative child labor. They are combining “alternative tuition” and environmental awareness by allowing students to pay their tuition...
by Supporting Education | May 23, 2019 | News, Student Issues
Tupac Mosley is 17, dedicated, and believes fiercely in his own future. He’s right to; the graduating senior has been accepted to more than 40 colleges and universities and won scholarships totaling around $3 million. He’s valedictorian of his class at Raleigh Egypt...
