PublicSchools

Jewish student reportedly asks to leave evangelical revival, told classroom doors are locked

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 …

Wed Feb 9, 2022

School board tried to ban these Black authors in schools but board forgot it is here for students

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. …

Mon Feb 7, 2022

Iowa GOP bill threatens to slash teachers’ pay if they don’t allow classrooms to be livestreamed

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 …

Thu Feb 3, 2022

43% of Republicans say they want no teaching on the history of racism whatsoever

Henry Ford famously said, “History is more or less bunk.” Of course, he was a horrible, virulent racist who Hitler praised as an “inspiration” in Mein Kampf, so his sentiment makes a certain amount of …

Sat Nov 13, 2021

'I let them work it out': Vile teacher allegedly tells mom when Black student told her skin stinks

A 10-year-old Black girl with autism took her own life on Saturday after the child allegedly dealt with prolonged bullying by both students and teachers at a majority-white Utah school, her family …

Thu Nov 11, 2021

'How fitting is this rebuke to GOP racism?' It's like Toni Morrison was speaking directly to GOP mom

It’s not uncommon for the literary greats of earlier generations to speak wisdom that seems unbound by time, but the late Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison seemed to just do so effortlessly. …

Wed Oct 27, 2021

One Florida school district with optional masks has had 17 staff die of COVID-19 since August

Florida’s death cult leader Gov. Ron DeSantis has more blood on his hands. Since the beginning of the school year, educators and school employees have found themselves in between a public that wants …

Thu Oct 14, 2021

What do anti-maskers seem to have in common with critical race theory detractors? Racism

A superintendent—actually the first Black superintendent to lead her district—has been forced into what The New York Times describes as “a yearlong firestorm” for having the audacity to share …

Tue Oct 12, 2021

Governor vetoes anti-protest bill and anti-truth bill GOP is calling strike at critical race theory

As a resident of Georgia, I’ll take any reminder I can get that there are still governors in the South who actually aim to serve the people. North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper served just the jolt of …

Tue Sep 14, 2021

Extremist candidate urges ‘strong men’ to flood school board meeting. Sheriffs will be there instead

As cases of COVID-19 surged across the country due in no small part to the growing prevalence of the delta variant, Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania announced a statewide order requiring that both public …

Fri Sep 10, 2021

A Tennessee community went viral for anti-mask violence. Now a school is closed due to COVID-19

Tennessee’s public education system has been the focus of Republican attacks for some time now. With a raging pandemic, economic uncertainty, and a Democratic Party offering up proactive legislation …

Fri Aug 20, 2021

Critical race theory paranoia could cost Tennessee schools real dollars, up to $5 million

Tennessee education officials recently released guidance that could empower the state to slash district budgets by millions over an ill-conceived ban on critical race theory in schools. Tennessee Gov. …

Mon Aug 9, 2021

Why I refuse to send my children to schools that don't celebrate them

As a Black woman and a mother of two young children in Georgia, I spend a considerable amount of time thinking about the messaging my children receive, what they learn, how they learn it, and from …

Sat Jul 31, 2021

'They wanted to hear from their friends': GOP hearing on race in schools excludes Black speakers

A legislative committee in the Republican-led Missouri General Assembly actually went about holding an invite-only hearing on how race is taught in schools without including a single Black parent or …

Wed Jul 21, 2021

Texas governor aims to take 'I Have a Dream' speech out of schools, and that's not all

Already trying to peel away at voting rights in the state, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is also pushing a bill that would practically remove women and people of color from a portion of required social …

Mon Jul 19, 2021

What if GOP pushed school ban on planes instead of critical race theory?

In my work reporting on critical race theory, I don’t think I’ve effectively communicated how scary it is to understand what’s happening and what’s been happening in this country’s education system …

Wed Jul 14, 2021

Fearmongers are driving quality educators away to advocate for lies about critical race theory

It’s been more than a month since a Tennessee school board voted to dismiss a teacher accused of racism for assigning his contemporary issues students content some parents and administrators deemed …

Tue Jul 13, 2021

Black student all but begs state board members not to erase her history. They still vote against her

The Oklahoma State Board of Education, minus the one Black woman on the board, voted to usher in an emergency rule on Monday banning teachers from covering certain aspects of race and racism in …

Tue Jul 13, 2021

Tennessee Republicans deem Ruby Bridges' story critical race theory in effort to ban it in schools

Ruby Bridges—as in author Robert Coles’ The Story of Ruby Bridges, a classic about a six-year-old girl’s work to integrate a New Orleans school in 1960—has been trending on Twitter for the most …

Fri Jul 9, 2021

'They don't see a little boy. They see a criminal': School calls cop on 6-year-old Black, Latino boy

A Massachusetts school board voted last week to temporarily halt two programs that brought police officers into schools after the school district called police on a 6-year-old Black and Latino student …

Thu May 27, 2021