by Supporting Education | Mar 29, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
In the same month as the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan stimulus bill, President Biden’s White House is preparing a new funding package to promote recovery. And this one is even larger. According to administration sources, the new infrastructure bill preparing to...
by Supporting Education | Mar 22, 2021 | News, Teacher Issues
Hawaii has been cautious through every step of the pandemic, and the state is now seeing the dividends of that prudence. One of those perks, a big one, is that educators, health officials, and union leaders have been able to reach an accord on the return to classroom...
by Supporting Education | Mar 15, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The Los Angeles Unified School District has been in deadlock with its teachers’ union about reopening schools for over eight months and has finally reached a tentative accord. In-person instruction, they announced on March 9, 2021, can begin in mid-April, making LA...
by Supporting Education | Mar 8, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
There’s been a lot of research over the past century over the question of classroom discipline. Is “spare the rod, spoil the child,” the way? Time-outs, suspension, expulsion, “school resource officers?” For most of history, discipline has been along those lines....
by Supporting Education | Mar 1, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
For years now, teachers’ unions have been pushing the federal government to allow states to opt out of the federal standardized testing requirement. But in its first major act, President Biden’s new Department of Education has announced that states will not be allowed...
