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
Joe Lombardo wants to create a program of education saving accounts that experts say could take hundreds of millions of dollars from already underfunded Nevada public school systems.
By Emily Singer - September 28, 2022Republican Michigan gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon called for the resignation of Michigan’s top education official over videos intended to train school staff on how to support LGBTQ students who are struggling.
By Adrian Cole - September 23, 2022Student debt forgiveness would provide relief to borrowers in all 50 states, the administration says.
By Oliver Willis - September 22, 2022Staff in Florida schools face legal jeopardy, attention from hate groups, and demonization from conservatives if they show support for LGBTQ children.
By Adrian Cole - September 13, 2022Education advocates in the state say the move sets a ‘dangerous’ precedent.
By Adrian Cole - August 31, 2022Multiple organizations advocating for marginalized Americans and progressives called President Biden’s action ‘historic,’ ‘life-changing’ step for millions.
By Oliver Willis - August 26, 2022Forty-three million Americans owe money on federal student loans.
By Oliver Willis - August 25, 2022An estimated 20 million people will see their federal student debt erased as a result of the White House’s announcement.
By Associated Press - August 24, 2022‘If Florida truly believes we live in a post-racial society, then let it make its case,’ wrote U.S. District Judge Mark Walker. ‘But it cannot win the argument by muzzling its opponents.’
By Associated Press - August 21, 2022Michigan gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon focuses on favorite Republican themes such as ‘critical race theory,’ ‘school choice,’ and ‘parents’ rights’ in campaign appeals to the GOP base.
By Adrian Cole - August 17, 2022Under Biden, the Department of Education has forgiven nearly $32 billion in student debt thus far.
By Oliver Willis - August 17, 2022A mother and leading education advocate explains what work is being done in support of educators and parents of children returning to polarized and politicized schools.
By TAI Contributor - August 15, 2022The bipartisan Keep Kids Fed Act passed in the House by a vote of 376-42.
By Josh Israel - June 23, 2022The proposal is intended to replace a set of controversial rules issued during the Trump administration by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
By Associated Press - June 23, 2022American Rescue Plan funds are going to programs that assist students in the areas of mental health, academic achievement, career development, literacy, and life outside of the classroom.
By Oliver Willis - June 10, 2022The Ohio Legislature has passed a bill that would cut the required firearms training time for teachers who want to carry guns on school grounds.
By Emily Singer - June 02, 2022Conservatives continue to use so-called ‘parental rights’ bills as a weapon against LGTBQ people.
By Casey Quinlan - June 01, 2022Americans could take a lesson from the German people when confronting our own history.
By Laila Hirschfeld - May 10, 2022Some Senate Republicans have openly admitted they oppose President Joe Biden granting student loan relief because it’s too popular.
By Josh Israel - April 28, 2022Charlie Crist demanded transparency about the Florida Department of Education’s reasons for banning of math textbooks.
By Adrian Cole - April 22, 2022Legislation banning LGBTQ content in schools harms teachers as well as students.
By Casey Quinlan - April 20, 2022Republican candidate Ryan Kelley said that if elected, he would charge Michigan school boards with felonies if they failed to remove ‘sexually explicit content.’
By Adrian Cole - April 20, 2022Polling results reflect a sharply politicized national debate that has consumed local school boards and, increasingly, state capitols.
By Associated Press - April 17, 2022The Biden administration announced plans intended to ‘to embed equity, racial justice, and gender equality in day-to-day governing.’
By Oliver Willis - April 14, 2022‘It’s a very organized, deliberate, well-backed campaign to push these three candidates,’ one Waukesha County parent said.
By Matt Cohen - March 30, 2022Suzette Baker, a librarian in Llano County, Texas, was fired from her job earlier this month after she refused to comply with her manager’s order to remove books that dealt with LGBTQ people’s life experiences.
By Casey Quinlan - March 24, 2022Unfortunately for Republicans, the vast majority of Americans still support LGBTQ rights.
By Oliver Willis - March 18, 2022Transgender sports bans have spread quickly through state legislatures.
By Casey Quinlan - March 10, 202243 million Americans will be back on the hook for student loan payments in less than two months unless President Joe Biden takes action.
By Josh Axelrod - March 09, 2022Today’s cartoon from Clay Jones.
By Clay Jones - March 04, 2022