North Carolina Republicans are very concerned about free school lunches. In a debate on whether to continue providing free school lunches to all the kids in the state ranked eighth for child hunger, …
In addition to surviving the novel coronavirus pandemic, students at a public high school in Huntington, West Virginia, apparently also fight to have their basic freedom of religion respected while in …
On Tuesday, Dollywood Parks and Resorts announced that beginning Feb. 24 of this year, they will cover 100% of fees, tuition, and books for their employees who pursue further education. Through …
In a West Virginia community of fewer than 50,000 people, students were ushered into an assembly between their calculus and European history classes, 16-year-old Cameron Mays told ABC News. They were …
Conservatives truly cannot get enough when it comes to demonizing trans people, especially trans youth. Trans youth are particularly vulnerable when it comes to harassment, bullying, and both physical …
The Republican conviction that schools are teaching white kids to feel guilty and self-hating merely by teaching the history of the United States isn’t an isolated belief. It’s part of a broader …
As parents and students continue to adjust to life amind the novel coronavirus pandemic, we’ve seen various perspectives about how schools should function with both the mental and physical health of …
Christina and Renee Ellis both attend a predominantly white high school in Pennsylvania, and they both were affected when the school joined a wave of others in banning books written by Black authors. …
by Shriya Bhattacharya
This story was originally published at Prism.
As schools and universities across the country closed their campuses at the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, students struggled …
So!
It’s February.
The groundhog saw its damn shadow.
But you know what that means …
Another six weeks of legislative sessions!
Kidding, kidding. State legislative session dates don’t actually …
Maus landed back on bestseller lists in the wake of its banning from the eighth-grade curriculum by a Tennessee school board. But it’s just one very prominent book among the hundreds or thousands that …
While life during the novel coronavirus pandemic has been easy for no one, it’s been especially challenging for people who are caretakers, whether that includes children, older folks in the home, …
A Missouri father who supported the banning of books—and even assisted in a book-banning presentation in front of a school board this past October—has been accused of a “felony charge of second-degree …
In what feels like a pandemic education repeat of The New York Times’ series of reports on Trump supporters in Midwestern diners while the majority of voters who opposed Trump were largely ignored, …
On Wednesday, Alabama state legislators are set to begin discussing the amorphous and still-never-before-taught-below-the-college-level Critical Race Theory (CRT) in the Yellowhammer State’s schools. …
The Iowa GOP is actually pushing proposed legislation filed on Tuesday in the state House to livestream from public school classrooms, allowing parents to watch children in class—a virtual …
If you feel like you’re reading a lot more about book bans in the United States, you’re not wrong. According to data from Pew, for example, the latest Republican effort to ban (if not burn) books from …
The McMinn County, Tennessee, school board issued a statement defending its removal of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus to teach eighth-graders about the Holocaust. Their defense is a …
The social media platform TikTok continues to prove itself to be more than just a platform for viral dance videos and pranks. It now has one of its oldest users sharing the reality of the Holocaust …
Under Virginia law, if you wish to attend an institution of higher learning, you must be vaccinated for no fewer than 8 different diseases. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, however, the …
