by Supporting Education | Aug 15, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Derrick Rose, the 29-year-old basketball player who was the youngest ever to earn the NBA’s Most Valuable Player Award all the way back in 2011, has had a very successful career. And he is as dedicated to paying his success forward as he is to playing his sport. In...
by Sarah Green | Aug 8, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Basketball star LeBron James grew up in Akron, Ohio, the son of a teenage single mother. He remembers missing weeks of school at a time while they moved from apartment to apartment, never stable, never sure they wouldn’t be living in their car next month. It took a...
by Sarah Green | Aug 1, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is the current president-elect of Mexico, having won 53 percent of the popular vote and the majorities in 31 out of Mexico’s 32 states. He ran on a platform of rooting out corruption “from top to bottom, like sweeping the stairs,” and...
by Sarah Green | Jul 26, 2018 | News, Student Issues
Federal law in the U.S. requires that all children on American soil receive a free public education. Emphasis on the “all.” The law makes no distinction between children regardless of their immigration status. Despite certain claims made by anti-immigration pundits,...
by Sarah Green | Jun 27, 2018 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
“A community without a school…is a vacant community,” Verónica Dávila, a second-grade teacher at a rural Puerto Rico school, told Vox. “It’s actually a dead community.” Puerto Rico’s educational crisis hardly began with Hurricane Maria, but the weather catastrophe has...
