by Supporting Education | Oct 25, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
The demands of the Chicago Teachers Union, which began a strike on Thursday, October 17, 2019, are familiar by now. Living wages suited to their area. Additional resources in schools, from more paper towels and white-board markers to more teaching staff, nurses, and...
by Supporting Education | Oct 11, 2019 | News
In 1995, the Department of Education started the Borrower Defense to Repayment program. It was built to allow students deceived by dishonest academic institutions to be forgiven their student loans. In 2016, the Obama administration finalized rules for the program,...
by Supporting Education | Sep 17, 2019 | News, Teacher Issues
Last year, a survey by the federal Department of Education found that 94 percent of U.S. public school teachers pay for classroom supplies out of pocket, without reimbursement, and that they spend an average of nearly $500 a year doing so. Purchase by teachers range...
by Supporting Education | Aug 30, 2019 | Student Issues
As September begins, most students in the U.S. are either back in school or about to be so. For many, getting back into the habit of studying and retaining so much information is daunting, even exhausting. So here are a few tricks to try out. 1. Set yourself up for...
by Supporting Education | Aug 16, 2019 | News
According to a survey by the National Retail Foundation, in 2018 the average parent of elementary school-age kids spent nearly $125 on school supplies per student, excluding clothes and electronics (if you include those, the average is over $630). From pencils to...
