by Beth Holmes | Oct 17, 2022 | News, Student Issues
Dolly Parton and her ‘Imagination Library’ has come to California, with a new bill signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. Singer Dolly Parton was inspired by her father’s struggles with illiteracy to make sure as many children as possible learn to read, and...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 10, 2022 | News, Teacher Issues
Filipino teachers come to help alleviate the U.S. teacher shortage in our time of need. Carolyn Stewart is the superintendent for Bullhead City School District, a district based in Mohave County about 85 miles south of Las Vegas. Stewart has spent months trying to...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 3, 2022 | News, Student Issues
Illinois youth have taken sexual health education into their own hands with a group-written handbook. “Shattering the Taboo” is the title of a sex education handbook written by a coalition of Chicago students, meant to help de-stigmatize teaching what teenagers need...
by Beth Holmes | Sep 26, 2022 | News, Other
Somaya Faruqi speaks for the rights of girls and women in Afghanistan, in front of the United Nations in an emotional speech. Somaya Faruqi was the captain of the Afghan girls’ international robotics team last year. In August, she fled her country as the Taliban...
by Supporting Education | Sep 19, 2022 | Teacher Issues
A strong educator workforce is the goal for nearly $25 million in new awards from the Department of Education, announced on Monday. Twenty-two new five-year grants, amounting to a total of $24.8 million, will be given out through the Department of Education’s...
by Beth Holmes | Sep 12, 2022 | News, Teacher Issues
A California school district is asking parents to help them find new teachers, by renting out rooms in their homes for cheap. Milpitas Unified School District, located in the San Francisco Bay area, has 18 schools and over 450 teachers for approximately 10,000...
by Beth Holmes | Sep 5, 2022 | News, Other, Teacher Issues
Federally funded studies must be free and accessible to the public, the White House has decided. What happens to scientific research conducted with federal funding is dictated by White House policy, and has been for decades. Until now, federally funded researchers...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 29, 2022 | News, Student Issues
Defrauded borrowers are to be forgiven almost $4 billion in debt by the Department of Education, in the continuing fallout of ITT Technical Institute. Until 2016, ITT Educational Services was one of the largest for-profit educational operator in the U.S. It shut its...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 22, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Free school lunches for all students, as California revs up the country’s first Universal Meals program. According to experts, 1 out of every 5 Californians is food-insecure, meaning that on a regular basis, they don’t know if they’ll be able to feed...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 15, 2022 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
‘Divisive concepts’ are the divisive topic in a Minnesota school, where the board is trying to censor teachers from teaching history. In the Becker district, a Minnesota school district from the north of Minneapolis, three school board members have put...
