by Rachel Frazin | Mar 22, 2018 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Between 50 and 70 percent of the young prisoners in state juvenile justice systems have a mental disability, but an analysis of those systems found that only one state — Indiana — requires all teachers in such facilities to have special education...
by Rachel Frazin | Mar 20, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — Hours after a student shot two classmates in Maryland on Tuesday, a teacher who survived the Marjory Stoneman Douglas shooting in Florida told House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and other lawmakers that students in her school still are often absent...
by Rachel Frazin | Mar 15, 2018 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — One month after a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland left 17 dead and more injured, Florida’s senators presented the Senate Judiciary Committee with opposing solutions for gun violence in school. Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat,...
by Rachel Frazin | Mar 13, 2018 | Education, Featured, Politics
Since 26 students and teachers were murdered and two injured by a gunman at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., there have been 10 more fatal shootings at American elementary, middle, and high schools. In all, 57 people were killed, excluding the shooters....
by Rachel Frazin | Mar 6, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — To combat the veterans’ mental health crisis, Veteran Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and veterans’ interest group AMVETS announced a joint program Tuesday that will give veterans better access to mental health screenings and services and to allow...
by Rachel Frazin | Feb 28, 2018 | Education
WASHINGTON – National Education Association president Lily Eskelsen García was recently called by a teacher in Colorado whose kindergarten class was confused as to why one boy brought a suitcase to class. Amie Baca-Oehlert, the teacher, wanted to know how...
by Rachel Frazin | Feb 22, 2018 | Featured, Politics
NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. -Students and speakers decried the protests erupting across the country over conservative speakers being brought to present at universities at the Conservative Political Action Conference. The issue of freedom of speech resonated with the crowd at...
by Rachel Frazin | Feb 21, 2018 | Education
When Amirius Clinton saw white nationalist flyers at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb last fall, he said he was scared. The signs posted around the campus an hour west of Chicago had simple messages: One just featured the name of the group – Identity Evropa...
by Rachel Frazin | Feb 21, 2018 | Politics
WASHINGTON – The number of neo-Nazi groups in America rose about 22 percent – from 99 to 121 – last year, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s annual survey of extremist groups. In the report issued Wednesday, the SPLC, which works to end discrimination,...
by Rachel Frazin | Feb 15, 2018 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – The U.S. faces a shortage of workers with technical skills, a gap that could be filled with more access to training, experts said at a congressional hearing. The House Science, Space and Technology Committee hearing focused on the importance of community...
by Rachel Frazin | Feb 13, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — A bill in the U.S. House of Representatives that would add new requirements for filing lawsuits under the Americans with Disabilities Act is slated for a vote Thursday with strong support from the Republican majority. The ADA prohibits discrimination of...
by Rachel Frazin | Feb 8, 2018 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The House and Senate passed a two-year budget bill before dawn on Friday, causing only an hours-long government shutdown. House Republicans were not uniformly in favor of the bill, with deficit hawks upset at the large spending increase. The House Freedom...
