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 | 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 2, 2020 | News, Student Issues
In the 2015-16 school year, U.S. students missed over 11 million in-class days due to out-of-school suspensions according to a new report from the Center for Civil Right Remedies (CCRR). For context, approximately 50 million students optimally have access to 180...
