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 is snubbing the 2019 Teacher of the Year, despite having plenty of free time on his hands.
By Emily Singer - April 29, 2019The third French official in a week had to speak out about Trump.
By Oliver Willis - April 19, 2019‘Everything would have collapsed’ if French firefighters had followed Trump’s absurd suggestion of using water-bombing aircraft to fight the fire at Notre Dame.
By Oliver Willis - April 17, 2019Police have charged a white man with a hate crime for allegedly burning down three black churches in Louisiana. Trump has said nothing.
By Emily Singer - April 16, 2019Trump’s suggestion for saving the Notre Dame Cathedral was so dumb, the French government had to say something.
By Oliver Willis - April 15, 2019Leading conspiracy theorist hints at sinister cause of Notre Dame fire.
By Oliver Willis - April 15, 2019In a congressional hearing, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos admitted that her actions could harm transgender students.
By Dan Desai Martin - April 10, 2019Conservative school board members in Michigan just tried — and failed — to remove the word ‘democracy’ from the statewide school curriculum.
By Lisa Needham - April 09, 2019Betsy DeVos defended the Trump administration’s planned attack on Special Olympics, and Congress let her have it.
By Oliver Willis - March 26, 2019The Trump administration proposed a 56 percent cut to work-study funding for low-income and middle-class college students.
By Emily Singer - March 18, 2019Trump’s budget makes cruelty a top priority.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 11, 2019By proposing huge cuts to domestic programs, including education, Trump makes his priorities crystal clear.
By Dan Desai Martin - March 06, 2019Thanks to Trump, $500 million meant for school construction projects is at risk.
By Dan Desai Martin - February 21, 2019Trump said Japan nominated him for the Nobel Prize. What he forgot to mention is that his team asked Japan to nominate Trump.
By Emily Singer - February 18, 2019The Department of Education has several deregulation proposals, all of which will make it easier for unsavory schools to take money from unsuspecting students.
By Lisa Needham - January 09, 2019Republican Gov. Matt Bevin is deeply unpopular as he prepares for a tough 2019 election in Kentucky.
By Dan Desai Martin - December 20, 2018Florida lawmaker Manny Diaz Jr. voted to stop vulnerable people in his own district get access to affordable health care.
By Oliver Willis - October 24, 2018Florida state Rep. Manny Diaz keeps voting to put more and more guns in schools.
By Oliver Willis - October 19, 2018Florida Rep. Manny Diaz voted to kill a proposed ban on assault weapons, less than a week after the mass shooting in Parkland killed 17 students and staff members in his own state.
By Oliver Willis - October 17, 2018Florida GOP nominee Manny Diaz Jr. opted for an extreme scare tactic to fight against any new ethics rules that might affect him.
By Oliver Willis - October 15, 2018PTA president David Perez, a public school advocate, has vowed to fight “all attempts to shift public funds to for-profit charter schools.”
By Oliver Willis - October 11, 2018The exodus from Trump gains momentum as even more workers leave the government.
By Eric Boehlert - September 11, 2018Rep. Jim Jordan, the man who wants to be the next speaker of the House, is in the middle of a serious sex abuse scandal — and Republicans keep trying to shrug it off.
By Eric Boehlert - August 20, 2018Federal investigators are now examining the Ohio State University sexual abuse scandal.
By Eric Boehlert - August 17, 2018Students face news hurdles in their battle with crooked, for-profit colleges, thanks to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
By Eric Boehlert - July 25, 2018Jim Jordan was just named in a class action lawsuit for allegedly standing by and doing nothing while students were abused on his wrestling team at Ohio State University.
By Eric Boehlert - July 18, 2018Betsy DeVos visited a city with the largest public school system in the U.S. — and only visited private schools.
By Eric Boehlert - May 17, 2018Following the lead of Trump University, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is trying to protect for-profit colleges that defraud students.
By Eric Boehlert - May 14, 2018Liberty University has been in Trump’s corner from the beginning. But with dipping enrollment numbers, it’s trying to scrub evidence that it’s no longer the ‘world’s largest Christian university.’
By Alison R. Parker - April 29, 2018Teachers are riding a wave of national support as the fight for better pay.
By Eric Boehlert - April 27, 2018