by Beth Holmes | Apr 3, 2023 | Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
The Parents’ Bill of Rights Act proposed by the GOP is mostly a way to strip education down to only what the most most conservative voices want taught. The so-called Parents’ Bill of Rights Act passed on Friday in the House of Representatives. It...
by Beth Holmes | Mar 6, 2023 | News, Student Issues
Student loan forgiveness is, as for the past several years, a political firestorm and a point of national division. President Joe Biden’s administration has a plan to ease or erase the student debt of up to 43 million people, approximately one in eight...
by Beth Holmes | Feb 22, 2023 | News, Teacher Issues
Bernie Sanders has promised to fight for a $60,000 minimum salary for public school teachers in a town hall speech this week. “We should be paying public school teachers a minimum of at least $60,000 a year,” Sanders said at a town hall in Washington D.C. on Monday...
by Beth Holmes | Aug 29, 2022 | News, Student Issues
Defrauded borrowers are to be forgiven almost $4 billion in debt by the Department of Education, in the continuing fallout of ITT Technical Institute. Until 2016, ITT Educational Services was one of the largest for-profit educational operator in the U.S. It shut its...
by Beth Holmes | Oct 19, 2021 | News, Student Issues
Black education is a priority in the White House once again, as President Joe Biden signs an executive order to help address the obstacles faced particularly by black students in the United States. The executive order, which was signed October 19, 2021, creates two...
