by Beth Holmes | Apr 10, 2023 | News, Student Issues
Community colleges are seeing less and less enrollment, despite the fact that they’re cheaper than ever. According to a survey of schools run by the Seattle Times, the number of students enrolled in community colleges has fallen by over a third since 2010, a...
by Beth Holmes | Apr 3, 2023 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The Parents’ Bill of Rights Act proposed by the GOP is mostly a way to strip education down to only what the most most conservative voices want taught. The so-called Parents’ Bill of Rights Act passed on Friday in the House of Representatives. It...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 29, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
Menstrual cycles may be about to become the new banned topic in grade schools in Florida, along with sexuality and race. Legislation in Florida is moving through the state House of Representative to ban any discussion of human sexuality topics, including menstrual...
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....
