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
Betsy DeVos urged Education Department staff to resist Biden administration policies.
By Josh Israel - December 16, 2020The South Carolina senator is in favor of local control of education — except when he’s not.
By Josh Israel - December 14, 2020Other states, too, have volleyed for in-person learning, ignoring federal health guidelines and soaring local case numbers.
By Donna Provencher - December 10, 2020Betsy DeVos doesn’t believe in helping students pay for college.
By Josh Israel - December 10, 2020A critic charged that the document ‘primes officers to use force by painting’ Black Lives Matter activists as terrorists plotting to kill police.
By Associated Press - December 04, 2020Joe Biden says he wants to make public colleges and universities free for families that earn less than $125,000 a year.
By Associated Press - December 02, 2020A top pediatrician calls the number of virus cases in children ‘staggering and tragic.’
By Donna Provencher - November 30, 2020It is yet another way in which the pandemic has exposed the gap between the haves and have-nots in the United States.
By Associated Press - November 28, 2020PEN America noted the ‘self-reflective humanism that has marked his influence on public life.’
By Associated Press - November 25, 2020Americans have lost more jobs since the start of the coronavirus pandemic than during the entire Great Recession.
By Associated Press - November 03, 2020‘I’m not sure there’s a role at the department to collect and compile that research,’ Trump’s education secretary said Tuesday.
By Donna Provencher - October 21, 2020California’s Fuller Theological Seminary has received federal funds in the past.
By Casey Quinlan - October 14, 2020Also: Congress passes a bill to create a national suicide hotline, transgender individuals win a lawsuit over locker room policies, and California passes a law to mandate more diversity on corporate boards.
By Emily Singer - October 02, 2020The Home School Legal Defense Association lobbies for corporal punishment and opposes gay rights.
By Donna Provencher - September 29, 2020Schools that had reopened in five states were forced to close again after students and staff members tested positive for the coronavirus.
By Amy Lieu - September 28, 2020Many colleges have struggled to curb off-campus gatherings that have been tied to thousands of infections.
By Associated Press - September 20, 2020Ignorance is strength in Trump’s Orwellian rewrite of history.
By Donna Provencher - September 18, 2020Christian Tybring-Gjedde has also compared hijabs to KKK robes and tried to ban young people from wearing them in schools.
By Josh Israel - September 09, 2020Military leaders view students as the next generation of commanders who must learn to lead troops through the crisis.
By Associated Press - September 07, 2020After complaining about the House relief bill, Ted Cruz is demanding $5 billion to subsidize parochial and private education.
By Josh Israel - September 04, 2020The administration has taken a piecemeal approach, experts say, continuing to target transgender Americans following the historic ruling.
By Casey Quinlan - September 03, 2020Joe Biden will meet with public health experts to talk about school reopening options.
By Associated Press - September 02, 2020Kellyanne Conway will leave the Trump administration at the end of the month.
By Emily Singer - August 24, 2020‘We all saw this coming,’ said an editorial in the University of North Carolina’s student newspaper.
By Associated Press - August 18, 2020Several schools that opened have had to shut down due to coronavirus infections.
By Oliver Willis - August 13, 2020Jerry Prevo has spent decades fighting LGBTQ equality.
By Casey Quinlan - August 12, 2020Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) said school reopenings went ‘real well’ despite several high-profile coronavirus outbreaks.
By Dan Desai Martin - August 11, 2020Many said they’re most worried about fellow students breaking the rules on wearing masks and keeping their distance.
By Associated Press - August 11, 2020Falwell’s employer Liberty University did not have a problem with these other actions.
By Josh Israel - August 10, 2020A recent study found that children aged 10 and older spread the coronavirus at the same rates adults do.
By Josh Israel - August 10, 2020