New Flathead school creating space for kids with learning challenges
The school is centered around educating youth and creating an environment for children with learning differences, sensory needs and behavioral challenges.
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We had many unpleasant teachers at school in Manchester, Massachusetts, the town where I grew up. Some were also woefully ignorant: I’ll never forget asking my year seven science teacher – in a class about microbes – if cholera was an example of bacteria. “Cholera? I’m not familiar with that one,” he said. But at the time – and this was about 1992 – we just accepted our teachers’ deficiencies and laughed at them all later.
- The Hill
Oklahoma state rep says state superintendent shared ‘pretty graphic material’ with lawmakers
An Oklahoma state representative said the state’s superintendent shared pornographic materials with state lawmakers on Thursday, claiming the content was found in Oklahoma schools. State Rep. Mark McBride (R), one of several lawmakers who received the email from Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters, told The Hill that it included “pretty graphic material.” “If that’s going on…
- Good Morning America
Preschool teacher shares what she carries in case of school shooting
Following the deadly school shooting at a private Christian elementary school in Nashville Monday, one teacher has turned to social media to ask fellow educators what they do to prepare for emergencies such as an active shooter incident. Erica Rogers teaches preschoolers at a Baptist church in North Carolina and said for her, this latest school shooting seemed to hit closer to home given the parallels she saw in what unfolded in the Tennessee capital and her everyday life. "After learning about Monday's shooting in Nashville, it just kind of really triggered me," Rogers, 28, told "Good Morning America."
- WTVR
Teacher charged with assaulting 5 students at Chesterfield school
Teacher charged with assaulting 5 students at Chesterfield school
- Belleville News-Democrat
Freeburg school principal to resign, saying some people ‘terrorize our school community’
“A few in our school, on our Board, and in our community are choosing to terrorize our school community, instead of building our school and helping our students,” the resignation letter says.
- USA TODAY Opinion
DeSantis is more than anti-'woke.' He just delivered universal school choice to Florida.
After years of COVID-related school shutdowns and a focus on leftist ideology at schools, frustrated parents have started demanding new options.
- The Daily Beast
Ron DeSantis Just Made Life Easier for Parents Who Hate His Book Bans
ReutersFlorida’s universal school choice law, which Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed on Monday, will undoubtedly be lumped in with the state’s other controversial education policies.It’ll be seen as one more salvo from a man who aspires to be America’s culture warrior-in-chief. It’ll be mentioned in the same breath as last year’s Parental Rights in Education Act (the so-called “don’t say gay” bill), this year’s possible expansion of that law, the rejection of a pilot program for an AP African-Americ
- The Hill
One in four college applicants avoids entire states for political reasons
A new survey, drawing notice in academia, shows that 1 in 4 applicants decided against applying to a college this year solely because of the politics in its state. The finding, long rumored in college admissions circles, has dire implications for some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions. Tulane University in Louisiana, Stanford in California,…
- Blavity
Florida Parent Files Complaint To Stop Teachers From Showing The ‘Ruby Bridges’ Movie In School
A Florida school has banned Disney’s Ruby Bridges film. The movie, about the first Black student to integrate an all-white school in New Orleans, was pulled after a parent argued the film would teach their children about the heinousness of racism.
- GOBankingRates
Student Loans: Can Biden Continue to Pause Repayments? It Depends
Millions of Americans are living in limbo as they await the Supreme Court's decision on Biden's student loan forgiveness plan, which would eliminate up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt per...
- INSIDER
Americans can't 'invent our way out of' school shootings, expert says, which is why bulletproof backpacks and safe rooms aren't the answer.
An expert told Insider that when schools focus on devices or hardware "we miss a lot of opportunity to work to prevent violence in our schools."
- Foster's Daily Democrat
Dover students walk out after Nashville shooting: 'We are dying and they're doing nothing'
“Community and passionate young people are the start of change,” said Isabella Papa, a senior at the school and organizer of the walkout.
- The 74
Why California Schools Are Adding Hundreds of Ethnic Studies Classes
On a rainy Friday afternoon at Santa Monica High School, ethnic studies teacher Marisa Silvestri introduced her class to the rap song “Kenji.” As singer Mike Shinoda narrated his family’s experiences in the Japanese American incarceration camps of World War II, Silvestri’s class fell silent. After the last bars of music filled the room, the […]
- The Topeka Capital-Journal
Kansas lawmakers want to separate students by sex assigned at birth on overnight trips
Kansas school districts must separate students by their biological sex on overnight trips, the latest in a string of bills on transgender students.
- National Review
Florida House Votes to Curtail Preferred-Pronoun Use among Students and Teachers
The Florida House passed a bill Friday that would curtail the use of preferred pronouns amongst students and teachers that "do not correspond" with their sex.
- INSIDER
Teachers can be heard shushing their crying students in 911 calls to Nashville police as a shooter opened fire in their school
In the 911 calls from the Nashville school shooting, a student can be heard telling his teacher he wanted to "go home" between sobs.
- The Root
For Black Athletes, March Madness Has Much Higher Stakes
If you watch the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division 1 Men’s basketball tournament for pure sports entertainment, fine. If you watch to cheer your alma mater, I understand. If you watch because on any given night, a Lilliputian like Florida Atlantic can topple a Tennessee and Kansas State on its way to the Final Four, I get it as an ex-sportswriter.
- WFTV
Florida houses passes expansion of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, bill moves to senate
Florida could expand what critics call the “Don’t Say Gay” law that limits discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation in public schools under a bill the House approved Friday along party lines.
- Sacramento Bee
Teacher shortage looms over negotiations between Sacramento City Unified and union
Vacancies have caused many of the district’s 40,000 students to be without a teacher for several months, as the district relies on long-term substitutes to cover positions.
- Miami Herald
Teacher accused of using racial slurs toward students now suspended, TN district says
A video shared on social media shows the teacher arguing with students about the use of the racial slur.