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
A growing chorus of advocates and politicians is calling for Biden to unilaterally cancel the nation’s $1.7 trillion in federal student debt.
By Josh Axelrod - March 01, 2022Republican governors have seized on anti-trans legislation as one of their current wedge issues.
By Casey Quinlan - February 08, 2022The right-wing push for ‘parental rights’ in public school education has resulted in bills targeting LGBTQ-inclusive content.
By Casey Quinlan - January 27, 2022‘I want kids to do this intentionally, to think that this is a requirement of living almost, that trying to figure out how they will make a better world should be a part of the charge of their living,’ said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
By Associated Press - January 23, 2022Republicans are chipping away at LGBTQ rights in state legislatures across the country.
By Casey Quinlan - January 11, 2022The Biden administration continues its efforts to get children back in the classroom.
By Josh Axelrod - January 11, 2022The House minority leader is falsely blaming Democrats for the problems his party helped perpetuate.
By Josh Israel - January 03, 2022‘It is obviously extremely dispiriting to have to take these steps,’ said Cornell University President Martha Pollack.
By Associated Press - December 28, 2021The Republican governor-elect has been quiet on his campaign promise to ban ‘CRT’ in the state’s schools, since winning in November. But teachers are still on high alert.
By Nick Vachon - December 17, 2021Experts say far-right activists are setting their sights on gender-affirming care providers.
By Casey Quinlan - December 16, 2021The Build Back Better Act would save parents money and provide Jewish and other faith-based early childhood centers access to federal funding to pay staff fairly.
By Cathy Rolland - December 14, 2021The Democrats’ social spending package would invest $1 billion in medical and nursing school programs and would support medical students from underrepresented communities.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - December 08, 2021Resources for educators who want to help LGBTQ youth feel safe in schools have been removed from the Florida Department of Education’s website.
By Casey Quinlan - December 07, 2021State laws targeting transgender kids have left school districts across the country in a challenging legal situation, experts say.
By Casey Quinlan - December 02, 2021Chip Roy thinks schools should be defunded over lessons about racism.
By Oliver Willis - November 23, 2021Software produced by the company Gaggle alone monitors over 5.2 million students in 1,500 districts across the nation.
By Casey Quinlan - November 19, 2021Every House Republican voted against President Joe Biden’s sweeping social safety net plan.
By Josh Israel - November 19, 2021By nearly every metric, the United States is doing very poorly when it comes to maternal and infant health.
By Lisa Needham - November 18, 2021Anti-LGBTQ groups are claiming that schools are violating the rights of teachers and parents.
By Casey Quinlan - November 18, 2021Fox News repeated falsehoods from a House Republican attack against the attorney general.
By Oliver Willis - November 17, 2021House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik wants to defund National Public Radio and take away its tax-exempt status.
By Josh Israel - November 15, 2021Schools across the U.S. are expanding their capacity to address students’ struggles with mental health.
By Associated Press - November 14, 2021Libraries are fighting nonstop efforts to remove LGBTQ books from shelves.
By Casey Quinlan - November 12, 2021Advocates called the ruling a victory for students with disabilities and noted it could have implications beyond the Lone Star State.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 11, 2021One conservative political action committee focused on races in some of the wealthiest and least diverse parts of the country.
By Nick Vachon - November 11, 2021The White House is encouraging schools to host community conversations and share fact sheets on the vaccines.
By Associated Press - November 08, 2021Some Republicans see the issue as a central part of their campaign strategy ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
By Nick Vachon - November 05, 2021Several LGBTQ candidates of color and transgender and nonbinary candidates made history on Tuesday.
By Casey Quinlan - November 05, 2021Donald Trump said he and the GOP nominee for Virginia governor ‘get along very well together.’
By Emily Singer - November 01, 2021Members of the Proud Boys, many of whom harbor white supremacist views, have reportedly begun showing up to protests at school board meetings to intimidate officials.
By Matt Cohen - October 29, 2021