by Supporting Education | Nov 11, 2019 | News, Student Issues
“Every issue that they have discussed the past 12 years, and every policy they’ve made, it’s either indirectly or directly affected me,” said Mike Kahoe, a senior at Revere High School in Bath Township, Ohio. “So who better to critique and improve upon that policy...
by Supporting Education | Nov 4, 2019 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues
Certain parts of the way we operate schools in America are embedded in tradition. Our parents did it one way, so they want to perpetuate that, even in the face of changing cultural needs or scientific proof that a change may be in order. Frog dissections. Football...
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 5, 2019 | News
While American parents wait (and wait, and wait, and wait) to see what the country will do to help prevent mass shootings, like many other developed countries have done, some people are taking the issues into their own hands. Parents are buying bullet-resistant...
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...
