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Betsy Devos Gets 80,000 F’s From Teachers Around the United States
Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, and Lily Eskelsen García, the president of the National Education Association, shared their thoughts with Education Secretary...
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Charter School Bathroom Policies are So Strict That Students are Bleeding...
The Noble Network of Charter Schools in Chicago has come under fire recently for their excessively strict and dehumanizing disciplinary tactics. NPR reports that the charter schools feature bathroom...
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The #ExposeChristianSchools Hashtag Gives Us a Devastating Look at “Christian...
Second Lady Karen Pence came under fire last week, after she announced that she would be resuming her post teaching art classes at Immanuel Christian School in Northern Virginia. Immanuel Christian...
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Diversity and Social Justice Classes Take a Hit and We Need To Talk About It
Idaho’s Boise State has canceled 52 diversity classes in a blatant endeavor to curb the teaching of important topics and interests for its students. It’s an attempt to rein in “social justice” courses...
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Florida Teachers Are Being Told to Remove All Books in Classroom Libraries to...
Teachers in Manatee County, Florida have reportedly been ordered to pack up their classroom libraries immediately or potentially face a third-degree felony charge. 4. Another Manatee teacher called...
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The College Board Kicks Off Black History Month by Scaling Back African...
Who put a white man in Florida, with no background in education, in charge of deciding what parts of Black history should be taught in schools around the country? By all appearances, the organization...
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Wyoming Republicans Outraged at Idea of Banning Child Marriage While Moving...
Content warning for child abuse, anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination, eating disorders. When is the last time anyone asked Wyoming Republicans if they are okay? Because their behavior in the state legislature...
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Tory Proposals for Sex Ed Reform Labelled ‘Politically Motivated’
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that there will be a review of what and how sex education will be taught in schools. During Prime Ministers’ Questions, Conservative MP for Penistone and...
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No, Republicans, Homeschooling Is Not a Solution to Gun Violence in Schools
Everyone in America is sick of the gun violence that plagues us everywhere we go. Everyone that is, except the one group of people that could possibly do something about it: Republicans. They seem to...
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Texas Republicans Have New Ideas To Force More Religion Into Public Schools
While the rhetoric of “taking God out of [public] schools” has not been the loudest manufactured culture war as of late, it certainly never left. A Christian persecution complex is always bubbling...
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Top Alabama Education Official Fired Over an 881-Page Guidebook That Mentions...
Alabama’s Director of Early Education Barbara Cooper has become the newest casualty of right-wing America’s War On Education. Her crime? Introducing “woke concepts” to schools. This is far from the...
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Reminder: Teacher Appreciation Week Should Be a Week of Action
We talk all the time about how hard teachers have it. It’s why Teacher Appreciation Day is immediately followed by Teacher Appreciation Week. The reality is that teachers are still under-supported to...
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Breaking Down the Ethics of Historical Costuming and Reenactments
Summer holidays in the U.S. largely focus on the country’s past, and with Memorial Day, Juneteenth, and the 4th of July behind us for this year, many might have found ourselves recently grappling with...
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Why Is NPR Helping Florida Schools Push Slavery-Friendly Propaganda?
NPR’s Morning Edition had an interview the other day … and not a sweet kind of interview about some local farmer’s market or the pig that won the county fair. No, instead, they had a man named William...
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Florida’s Extreme Right-Wing Seeks Seeks to Infiltrate Public Schools With...
We have had to hear so much hysteria from right-wing media and politicians in recent years about how the “woke mob” is indoctrinating kids. Yes, how dare kids learn that slavery was abhorrent or that...
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The Orange County Public Schools System in Florida is now seeking new guidelines relating to the oh-so-critical issue of, names. The new guidance means that teachers must use pronouns that correspond...
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There’s No More Coded Language, 2024 Republican Candidates Want To Kill...
I never thought Republicans cared about public education. Certainly not in my lifetime. And coming from North Carolina, I have seen the disdain that the GOP has for public education up close. I’ve...
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Art Institutes Begin to Shutter Nationwide, Overnight
WTF?! That is what students, faculty, and staff of the Art Institutes system of schools across the United States are likely asking themselves and each other as they abruptly receive news via email...
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Fossil Fuel Companies Continue to Shape How Schools Nationwide Talk About...
The numbers are staggering. Seventy-five percent of youth participants in an international survey responded that they find the future frightening because of the state of the planet. 83 percent...
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Is Florida #1 in Education Like Ron DeSantis Claims?
During Wednesday’s Republican debate in Iowa, Ron DeSantis repeatedly made a perplexing claim, saying his home state of Florida is #1 in education. If that seems suspect, that’s because it is. This...
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