by Supporting Education | Feb 22, 2021 | News, Parent Issues, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Call Me Max, by Kyle Lukoff, is a children’s book on about the level of If You Give a Mouse A Cookie or Eloise – a story for children about ages 6-10. It’s about a young trans boy figuring out who he is and how he fits in with his friends. The book talks from Max’s...
by Supporting Education | Feb 15, 2021 | News, Teacher Issues
In the 100-day plan from President Joe Biden, one of his pledges was to have students back in classrooms as swiftly as possible. His press secretary, Jen Psaki, was asked this week for specific benchmarks the White House was seeking to hit, but her answers varied. The...
by Supporting Education | Feb 1, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is the third largest school district in the U.S., with more than a third of a million students. In March 2020, like most school districts around the world, it pivoted to full-time online education. Since then, educators have seen the...
by Supporting Education | Jan 11, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
On January 5, 2021, a heated debate in the Salt Lake City Board of Education came to a close with a 5-2 vote. The ruling: junior high and high schools won’t reopen in February as planned, postponed instead until teachers can be fully vaccinated. The delay runs counter...
by Supporting Education | Jan 4, 2021 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
“Safety is key,” said California Governor Gavin Newsom in a press conference the morning of December 30, 2020, about starting to reopen California schools in the near future. “Just reopening a school for in-person instruction on its own is not going to address the...
