From Trauma to Turnout: Inside David Hogg’s $8M Bid to Elect …
Sep 5, 2024 · This story was published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit newsroom dedicated to reporting on gun violence.You can sign up for its newsletters here.. In a video posted to YouTube, 24-year-old school shooting survivor David Hogg points to a whiteboard and outlines a five-step plan to reshape America.. Ever since Hogg survived the 2018 Valentine’s Day shooting at his Parkland, Florida ...
Black and Hispanic Voters Say Democrats Aren’t Focused ... - The 74
Aug 4, 2024 · While a slight majority of Black and Hispanic voters say they still trust Democrats more than Republicans on the issue of education, more than two-thirds say they do not think Democrats are focused enough on improving K-12 schools, according to a new poll. The shot across the bow comes as Democrats seek to maintain their slim Senate majority ...
40 Years After ‘A Nation At Risk,’ How Has Standards-Based School ...
Mar 19, 2024 · A short history of standards-based reform. The NCLB Act locked into place a specific version of standards-based reform, one that incorporated a mishmash of ideas that had been floating around since the 1980s and arguably since the 1960s.
ALICE, America’s Most Controversial Active-Shooter Training that ...
Dec 7, 2021 · As gunshots rang out inside Michigan’s Oxford High School last week, terrified students scrambled for shelter, barricading classroom doors with desks and chairs should the gunman try to burst inside. Some wielded scissors and calculators as makeshift weapons in case they had to fight back. One student, 16-year-old star running back Tate Myre, was reportedly […]
LA School Board Race Could Change the Nation’s Second-Largest …
Oct 7, 2024 · Chang’s campaign and its backers have raised or spent more than $3.6 million so far in the race, compared to nearly $1.4 million for Schmerelson’s campaign. But with nearly a month left in the race, that could still change, Tokofsky said. Los Angeles Unified is the largest district in the country controlled by a school board.
Corey DeAngelis Disgraced, Not By Liberals He Trolled, but Right …
Sep 24, 2024 · But Gov. Greg Abbott and pro-voucher advocates like the Texas Public Policy Foundation — who have tried and failed for years to pass a school choice law — embraced DeAngelis’s take-no-prisoners style of advocacy. Following other states with similar laws, they want Texas to give parents roughly $10,000 a year to spend on private school ...
Oklahoma Changes Criteria for Bible Bids – The 74
Oct 13, 2024 · Reporting by Oklahoma Watch found few Bibles would have met the original RFP requirements, but two products matched the criteria — both of which are Bibles endorsed by the Trump family.. Trump has earned a name, image and likeness fee for his endorsement of Lee Greenwood’s $60 God Bless the USA Bible. A similar $90 product, called the We the People Bible, has been endorsed by Donald Trump Jr.
Virginia’s New Accountability System Looks to Raise the Bar on …
Oct 8, 2024 · Virginia is bucking that trend. It’s trying to raise the bar on schools, and it’s betting that they can and will respond in ways that lead to improvements in student performance. Disclosure: Chad Aldeman helped write new accountability regulations for the commonwealth of Virginia.Andy Rotherham is a member of the Virginia Board of Education ...
40 Years After ‘A Nation At Risk,’ How School Choice ... - The 74
Jan 23, 2024 · This broadly economic rationale connects with two other motivations for the introduction and expansion of school choice policies. The first can be described as a pragmatic appeal that has historically proven important: given the entrenched power of the public education bureaucracy in the United States (e.g., the political influence of public teachers’ unions), reform from without—as ...
White House Plan Yields 323K Tutors, Mentors to Aid COVID …
Oct 10, 2024 · News. White House Plan Yields 323K Tutors, Mentors to Aid COVID Learning Recovery. The response topped a goal for 250,000 — 9 months early — but the effort’s future depends ‘100% on the election,’ one leader said. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona visited Faison K-8 School in Pittsburgh during his fall bus tour last month.