Sunday, June 17, 2018 Last week, several hundred students, teachers and parents marched from Franklin High School to city hall to protest budget cuts that are decimating faculty and shortchanging Franklin’s children. The district is slated to lose 14 positions. That’s on top of the 14 positions the school district cut over the past two years. Franklin’s…
Category: No Child Left Behind Act
#RedForEd returns to the Arizona Capitol on Saturday to rally for education funding
Ricardo Cano, June 18, 2018 Arizona teachers will return to the Capitol on Saturday for a rally, a month after tens of thousands of educators walked out of class and flooded Arizona’s statehouse for six school days. This time, teachers are rallying to collect signatures for a proposed ballot measure that would bring in $690 million in additional…
Proposed legislation would end school funding lawsuits
By Cal Bryant Tuesday, June 19, 2018 RALEIGH – The North Carolina General Assembly is poised to finally send a piece of legislation to the Governor for his signature that would prevent a board of education filing a lawsuit against their county commissioners in cases where they can’t come to an agreement on local funding for…
Walker calls himself ‘education governor,’ launches new ad
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press JUNE 19, 2018 MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Scott Walker is calling himself an “education governor,” launching a new ad Tuesday touting recent increases in funding as he sets a goal to make Wisconsin’s high school graduation rates the highest in the country. The moves come as Walker tries to blunt…
Modest school safety measures making way through California Legislature
DAVID WASHBURN JUNE 17, 2018 Following the February massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., California legislators, like their counterparts around the nation, introduced a number of bills to address school safety. Two bills — one by introduced by a GOP lawmaker calling for armed police officers on every school campus and…
Keeping a Promise to HBCUs
Historically black colleges and universities are struggling and hope President Trump will follow through with support. By Lauren Camera Sept. 29, 2017 FOR SCHOOLS THAT MAKE up just 3 percent of all higher education offerings, historically black colleges and universities have an outsized impact on the success of African-Americans and the workforce as a whole. More than 20…
Low graduation rates continue to plague HBCU’s
February 21, 2018 By Martel S. Sharpe Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) have recently come under attack for low retention rates. Recent studies indicate that six-year graduation rates at HBCUs have lowered within the last couple of years, while Predominantly White Institutions (PWI) continue to rise. According to Collegefactual.com, statistics show that approximately four out…
HBCU: Alabama A&M benefits from $6 million Boeing investment
By: JJ Vincent Posted: Jun 06, 2018 05:36 PM Alabama A&M is one of the schools benefiting from a $6 million dollar investment from Boeing in the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. The investment with the nation’s largest organization exclusively representing the black college community hopes to help build a robust pipeline of diverse, early career talent with Boeing. “This investment…
Remember Gov. Ducey’s ‘free college for teachers’ plan? Here’s what actually happened
Rachel Leingang, June 18, 2018 Gov. Doug Ducey promised potential teachers the moon: debt-free college, as long as they stayed to teach in Arizona. The academy was a prominent part of Ducey’s 2017 agenda, announced in that year’s State of the State address. It was designed to help address a continuing teacher shortage that leaves thousands of…
African-American teachers push messages of affirmation, success at Philadelphia school
“I’ve been that child under the desk crying because my father wasn’t around,” said one African-American teacher. by Ron Allen and Leah Smith / Jun.16.2018 / 2:29 PM ET PHILADELPHIA — “You’re great!” That’s what every student hears from teacher Herman Douglas when they enter his seventh-grade class at Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School in a neighborhood…
Standing Strong for Public Education! 