by Beth Holmes | Mar 20, 2023 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The Texas takeover of Houston schools has many enraged, in a state that makes much of regional rights over widespread authority. On Wednesday, Texas education commissioner Mike Morath announced that the state would be taking over Houston’s public school...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 13, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a new education bill on Wednesday, one that ties important things like a higher minimum salary for teachers to new restrictions on classroom instruction about sexual orientation and gender identity. The Good: The bill...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 6, 2023 | News, Student Issues
Student loan forgiveness is, as for the past several years, a political firestorm and a point of national division. President Joe Biden’s administration has a plan to ease or erase the student debt of up to 43 million people, approximately one in eight...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 27, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
A Kentucky bill aimed at solving their teacher shortage is moving forward through the state House of Representatives. House Bill 319 is a multi-feature bill aimed at getting more teachers into classrooms. Every county in Kentucky but one reports a shortage of...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 22, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
Bernie Sanders has promised to fight for a $60,000 minimum salary for public school teachers in a town hall speech this week. “We should be paying public school teachers a minimum of at least $60,000 a year,” Sanders said at a town hall in Washington D.C. on Monday...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 13, 2023 | News, Student Issues
David Balogun has just graduated high school in Pennsylvania, college credits already under his belt, and plans to go to school for astrophysics – and he’s nine years old. Graduating at nine has made David Balogun one of the youngest known children to ever...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 6, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
ChatGPT, favorite new tool of academic cheaters, has released a new tool to help teachers detect cheating using AI like itself. ChatGPT is an AI application created by OpenAI, which is free to use and can write paragraphs and pages on just about any topic on demand....
by Beth Holmes | Jan 30, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
Censorship or jail is being offered to Florida teachers, told to remove ‘unvetted’ books from their classroom libraries or be charged with felonies. Governor Ron DeSantis and his fellow Florida Republicans pushed hard the narrative that teachers and...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 23, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
Hamlin University in Minnesota has dismissed a professor for showing a controversial image in her world art class. Erika López Prater was an adjunct professor at the small private college Hamlin University when she put up a 14th century painting of the Prophet...
by Beth Holmes | Jan 16, 2023 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Holding social media accountable for the behavior they reward is why several Seattle schools are suing Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube. The role of social media in public behavior has become increasingly concerning in the last few years, brought into the...
