A pre-kindergarten teacher reads a story to her students at Dawes Elementary in Chicago, Monday, Jan. 11, 2021. [AP Photo/Pool, Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Chicago Sun-Times] With the school year now concluded, official Chicago Public Schools (CPS) numbers indicate at least 1 in 12 students caught COVID-19 during the 2021-2022 school year. […]
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Allen County mirrors statewide decline in high school grads going to college | Schools
The percentage of Indiana students going directly from high school to college has experienced its steepest decline in at least a generation – and the drop was even worse for several Allen County high schools, data for 2020 graduates shows. After years of incremental declines, the latest Indiana College Readiness […]
Find your school’s teacher qualifications | Database
Find your school’s teacher qualifications | Database | EdSource Education Beat Podcast — Why aren’t more districts investing in tutoring? — Listen Now! The table below lists every school in California with its teachers’ qualifications as of the first Wednesday of […]
Make the Most of the Student Loan Payment Pause: 5 Ways to Take Control
If you might be one of the 43 million people today in the US with federal student debt, your necessary payments are on maintain until eventually Aug. 31. The US Secretary of Education and learning has also advised the pause could be extended once more, the fifth time considering that […]
The Justices Give Education a Prayer
In a pair of decisions in the past week, the Supreme Court took a major step forward in both education and religious liberty by ruling that states can’t discriminate against religion in education in the name of erecting a wall of separation between church and state. If you turn on […]
Rolling Stone: Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That the Planet Should Burn
The Supreme Court issued a major ruling limiting the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to curb emissions from power plants. This will have a major negative effect on curbing climate change. Rolling Stone says the Court voted to let the planet burn. The Trump majority strikes again. West Virginia […]
Californians can vote to add abortion to the state’s constitutional rights
Residents of California will be able to vote to add abortion rights to their state’s constitution on their midterm election ballots in November. The state Assembly voted Monday to amend Article 1 of the California Constitution to say, “The state shall not deny or interfere with an individual’s reproductive freedom […]
The best truck drivers in Pa. compete for bragging rights, golden tractor-trailer trophy
Truck drivers never stopped driving during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the need for truckers has kept growing over the past few years, but Pennsylvania’s annual safe driver competition was put on the back burner. This weekend the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association (PMTA) competition heated up again as 138 drivers from […]