Alaska House committee advances, expands proposal to bar trans girls from girls sports
Amended bill would add elementary, middle school and collegiate sports to limits in place for high school
By Claire Stremple, Alaska Beacon - April 16, 2024Education
Trump’s speech contained little to nothing on the affordable housing crisis, the national debt, and protections for Dreamers, among other things.
By Josh Israel - February 05, 2020Republican Missouri state Rep. Ben Baker is very upset that local libraries are hosting drag queen story hours.
By Josh Israel - January 17, 2020Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) asked the education secretary why every decision she has made ‘harmed students instead of empowering them.’
By Josh Israel - December 12, 2019The bill also simplifies the process for all students to apply for financial aid.
By Associated Press - December 11, 2019Career officials had recommended forgiving student loans for 200,000 defrauded borrowers.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 11, 2019A new lawsuit may be the only way student loan borrowers get any relief.
By Lisa Needham - December 06, 2019Some schools have blamed Donald Trump’s rhetoric against immigrants for the drop in foreign enrollment.
By Associated Press - November 23, 2019The UF student body president spent $50,000 in student fees to bring Donald Trump Jr. to speak at the school. Trump Jr. stormed off the stage early at the event.
By Associated Press - November 13, 2019New England Law Boston announced Friday that Trump’s Ambassador to New Zealand Scott Brown will be its new dean starting next December.
By Josh Israel - November 12, 2019Educators are incorporating the Trump impeachment inquiry into their lesson plans.
By Associated Press - November 09, 2019DeVos called an op-ed slamming the striking teachers a ‘must read.’
By Emily Singer - October 30, 2019A Benedict College spokeswoman confirmed that ‘at least’ a handful of students would be afforded the opportunity to attend the event, which the NAACP called ‘unpleasant.’
By Oliver Willis - October 25, 2019DeVos was ordered to stop collecting loans students took out from a for-profit college chain. She defied the order.
By Emily Singer - October 25, 2019This administration is really committed to hurting public service workers.
By Lisa Needham - October 16, 2019‘I was grabbed and pulled behind a tapestry, and it was him.’
By Oliver Willis - October 09, 2019Progressives won victories in California, where a new law protects workers in the gig economy, and a new task force in Minnesota will address violence against Native women.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 20, 2019Liberty University students have mounted a protest against one of Trump’s favorite evangelicals, Jerry Falwell Jr., after multiple reports surfaced on Falwell’s misdeeds.
By Lisa Needham - September 20, 2019With a 4-3 vote, the school board in Stafford County, Virginia, adopted nondiscrimination and equal opportunity policies to protect LGBTQ students and faculty.
By Josh Israel - September 11, 2019Most schools in Florida want to keep guns out of schools, not add more through arming teachers.
By Dan Desai Martin - September 09, 2019Congress ordered the Department of Education to make student loan forgiveness easier. Unsurprisingly, they’ve done no such thing.
By Lisa Needham - September 09, 2019It’s a break from the Obama administration, which made a strong commitment to LGBTQ youth.
By Lisa Needham - July 30, 2019Republican state Sen. Dan Seum endorsed Andy Beshear, the Democratic challenger to Kentucky GOP Gov. Matt Bevin.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 29, 2019Eduction Secretary Betsy DeVos may have broken the law with her use of personal emails to conduct official government business.
By Dan Desai Martin - July 16, 2019The Department of Education has denied 99% of all student loan forgiveness applications.
By Lisa Needham - July 12, 2019The man who interviewed Trump to get into the University of Pennsylvania said he did so as a favor to Trump’s brother — and that Trump wasn’t a very impressive candidate.
By Emily Singer - July 08, 2019It’s not just Democrats and independents who cringe when Trump says something absurd.
By Emily Singer - June 19, 2019The German chancellor took pointed swipes at Trump even without mentioning him by name.
By Emily Singer - May 31, 2019Trump’s secretary of education is actively helping the loan industry rip off students all across the country.
By Oliver Willis - May 16, 2019Cindy Warmbier questioned how Trump’s efforts with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could ever be successful.
By Emily Singer - May 03, 2019The Trump administration is ‘filled with a lot of hate toward the LGBTQ community,’ said Minnesota’s teacher of the year.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 30, 2019