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...
by Supporting Education | Jan 4, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
“Safety is key,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom in a press conference the morning of December 30, 2020, about starting to reopen California schools in the near future. “Just reopening a school for in-person instruction on its own is not going to address the...
by Supporting Education | Dec 28, 2020 | News
During his 2020 campaign, President-elect Joe Biden was asked about his priorities for Secretary of Education. “We need an education secretary who understands that education isn’t just what we are,” was his answer. “It’s who we are.” That answer resonated with the...
by Supporting Education | Dec 21, 2020 | News
A month ago, the names popping up in the conversation about President Biden’s pick for Secretary of Education were Alma Adams, Randi Weingarten, Congresswoman Lily Garcia, and two leaders of educators’ unions. Now in the middle of December 2020, the talk seems to be...
by Supporting Education | Dec 14, 2020 | News, Student Issues
With winter break either here or only a week away, the first report cards of the 2020-21 school year are going out. And they’re terrible. Schools everywhere in the country are reporting steep dives in the average grades of their students, with several times more...
by Supporting Education | Dec 7, 2020 | News, Student Issues
One of the signature events in Houston, Texas is the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, also known as RodeoHouston or HLSR. Nearly 90 years old and lasting 20 days in early spring, it’s the largest livestock exhibition in the world. It takes more 35,000 volunteers to...
by Supporting Education | Nov 30, 2020 | News, Student Issues
The Rhodes Scholarship, founded in 1902, is an international award to bring postgraduate students to study at the University of Oxford, and it is one of the most prestigious academic awards in the world. Each year, it’s awarded to around 100 students, to cover their...
by Supporting Education | Nov 23, 2020 | News
Jill Biden is not one to set her career aside for her husband’s, even though her husband is now President-Elect of the United States. For the eight years he was Vice President under President Obama, she never stopped teaching at Northern Virginia Community College,...
by Supporting Education | Nov 16, 2020 | News
One of the loudest grievances the country has had with Trump’s administration the past four years is his choice of Secretary of Education – Amway heiress Betsy DeVos. DeVos was outspoken before and during her appointment about her preference for private and charter...
by Supporting Education | Nov 9, 2020 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Moments before stepping on stage at a November 2 campaign rally in Scranton, Pennsylvania, President Trump posted to his Twitter feed: “Just signed an order to establish the 1776 Commission. We will stop the radical indoctrination of our students and restore PATRIOTIC...
