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
The ‘Expose Critical Race Theory Project’ lists the names of educators who have pledged to teach the truth about systemic racism in America.
By Oliver Willis - August 18, 2021Republicans in Congress are upset that families plan to spend more on back-to-school expenses this year than last year — when many schools weren’t in-person.
By Josh Israel - August 18, 2021GOP lawmakers are in favor of giving power back to school districts — unless they disagree with their decisions.
By Josh Israel - August 17, 2021More than two-thirds of American adults want schools to implement the COVID-19 safety measure.
By Josh Israel - August 17, 2021Republican Gov. Chris Sununu is giving a ‘microschools’ company more per pupil than the state gives public schools.
By Josh Israel - August 16, 2021Hundreds of students in Florida are already in quarantine after being exposed to COVID-19 in the classroom, just a few days into the new school year.
By Emily Singer - August 13, 2021The GOP gubernatorial candidate said the new schools would be ‘ventures with local universities and businesses.’
By Josh Israel - August 11, 2021The bill’s sponsor, Missouri Republican Rep. Jason Smith, once decried federal involvement in determining local school curriculums.
By Josh Israel - August 04, 2021Human Rights Campaign President Alphonso David says he believes conservatives are hoping anti-LGBTQ laws will help them win elections.
By Casey Quinlan - August 03, 2021‘If you haven’t figured out that the election in Maricopa County was free, fair, and accurate yet, I’m not sure you ever will.’
By Emily Singer - August 03, 2021A 14-year-old Kansas student was punished by her school in January for saying she was a lesbian.
By Casey Quinlan - August 02, 2021The first session of the White House’s Interagency Working Group on Safety, Inclusion, and Opportunity for Transgender Americans was held on July 21.
By Casey Quinlan - July 30, 2021A group that included a Republican legislative aide protested a school in Wise, Virginia, over its trans-inclusive policies.
By Casey Quinlan - July 28, 2021Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ) worries that academic research into cannabis will lead to university classes in marijuana smoking.
By Josh Israel - July 28, 2021The House Freedom Caucus backs a bill that would cut off federal funding to anyone teaching about the full contents of America’s founding documents.
By Josh Israel - July 27, 2021Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) has debuted a bill that would defund every public university in California.
By Josh Israel - July 21, 2021The right-wing Southeastern Legal Foundation is suing an Illinois school district over its anti-racist curriculum.
By Oliver Willis - July 21, 2021Virginians also widely approve of President Joe Biden’s job performance.
By Josh Israel - July 19, 2021The $1,400 relief checks and expanded Child Tax Credit helped her family afford to keep things normal for her two kids with special needs.
By Josh Israel - July 16, 2021The Alabama senator recentlypressed Biden’s nominee to lead the Office for Civil Rights at the Department of Education, Catherine Lhamon, about policies regarding transgender athletes.
By Casey Quinlan - July 14, 2021John Kluge, an orchestra teacher at Brownsburg High School in Indiana, refused to use the correct names or pronouns because, he claimed, it violated his religious beliefs.
By Casey Quinlan - July 13, 2021‘Mark my words: Our union will defend any member who gets in trouble for teaching honest history,’ said union president Randi Weingarten.
By Associated Press - July 07, 2021Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said the changes will help teachers get grants ‘without having to jump through unnecessary hoops.’
By Associated Press - July 04, 2021The Department of Education confirmed that Title IX prohibits discrimination on the basis of gender identity and sexual orientation, amid an onslaught of anti-trans legislation at the state level.
By Casey Quinlan - June 17, 2021‘This is an assault on the craft of teaching,’ said a teacher in Tennessee. ‘It’s asking me to show up and ignore parts of my own identity.’
By Associated Press - June 14, 2021Tom Cotton’s proposal would tell local school boards what to do.
By Josh Israel - June 11, 2021Loudoun County schools have enacted a plan to combat racism, which conservatives appear to have misidentified as ‘critical race theory.’
By Oliver Willis - June 09, 2021‘We have such an issue already with bullying and suicides and passing a law like this just sends a message to some students that it’s OK to call out someone for being different,’ one expert said.
By Casey Quinlan - June 08, 2021This past year has seen a continued reappraisal of the legacy of 19th-century Pacific Northwest missionary Marcus Whitman.
By Associated Press - June 06, 2021‘There are currently hotels that have no-bid contracts with the government that are housing these aliens in their facilities,’ said Rep. Lauren Boebert.
By Oliver Willis - June 03, 2021