Education
School districts use ‘go-away’ prices on records requests to avoid transparency(The Sentinel) – Fox News reports that parents across the country pursuing transparency are being charged exorbitant amounts by school districts in response to requests for curricula used to… Read More
Education
Chicago Public Schools to pay back $87 million in overpayments(The Center Square) – Chicago Public Schools were given $87 million from the Illinois State Board of Education in error and now they owe that money back. The coding error… Read More
Education
After being demonized, parent advocates doubt the sincerity of the Biden administration’s effort to mend fencesParent advocates are highly skeptical of the Biden administration’s sudden pivot to try to reconcile itself with concerned parents it once sought to investigate as domestic terrorists. The U.S. Department of… Read More
Education
North Korean defector: The ‘dictator’s handbook’ is being used to indoctrinate U.S. schoolchildren, and it keeps me up at nightYeonmi Park warns that today’s teaching of “equity” and white privilege is “a playbook for dictators.” She knows of what she speaks. Park courageously defected from North Korea at the… Read More
Education
National School Boards Association shedding members in over half the states after smearing concerned parentsWisconsin is the latest state to join a mass exodus of state school boards from the National School Boards Association in the wake of its infamous letter comparing concerned parents… Read More
Education
Educational inequality creates economic inequality in Kansas(The Sentinel) – Kansas ranks in the bottom half of states in educational equality, which an economist says is directly related to the state having severe economic inequality. As the… Read More
Education
More teachers, fewer students nationwide despite claims of teacher shortage(The Center Square) – The number of teachers in the U.S. has increased from 2013 to 2020 while the number of students has decreased, according to data from the… Read More
Education, Mizzou, State Government
New Missouri law bolsters health and academics, helps student athletes market their name, image and likeness(The Center Square) – Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Parson highlighted several enhancements to higher education and workforce development in an omnibus education bill he signed into law on Thursday,… Read More
Education, Uncategorized
Care to Learn chapters thrive within schools across the Ozarks to help impoverished students receive necessitiesSPRINGFIELD, Mo. – Care to Learn is a non-profit in Springfield that partners with school districts to help children obtain living necessities and stay in the classroom without… Read More