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 | 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 | Apr 26, 2019 | News, Student Issues
It’s only April, still more than a month left before summer vacation, but Falcon Hill Elementary School in Mesa, Arizona stopped sending home homework assignments. They stopped printing lunch menus, permission slips, book lists, and internal memos. Why? Because they...
