by Elleiana Green | Dec 18, 2023 | Education, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Transgender athletes in school sports left in limbo for months finally received an updated timeline from the Biden administration on its plan to update guidelines intended to protect them from discrimination. In April, the Biden administration proposed a...
by Kristen Axtman | Dec 13, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has taken aim at the for-profit college industry with a new rule to help prevent students from being saddled with massive debts. The fate of the program, however, could lie in who occupies the White House in 2025. In September,...
by Elleiana Green | Dec 5, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – Pushing back against book bans across the country, Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) was joined by his Democratic colleagues as he introduced the ‘Fight Book Bans Act’ on Tuesday. “The far right, fascist, MAGA extreme has caught up to the fact that their agenda...
by Angela Zhang | Nov 10, 2023 | Education, Featured, National Security
WASHINGTON — House representatives and experts are calling for urgent changes to United Nations humanitarian agencies involving Palestinian youth education on Israel over fears that the programs are spreading antisemitism. “Hatred is taught,” said Rep. Christopher...
by Elleiana Green and Jessica Ma | Nov 9, 2023 | Education, Featured, National Security, Politics
WASHINGTON — Jewish students and faculty members implored lawmakers on Wednesday to condemn antisemitic incidents and push back against hateful language on college campuses as Congress grapples with flared tensions related to the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas. ...
by Gaby Striano | Oct 26, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — As war wages in the Middle East, the House of Representatives looks to pass the Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act. The bill requires the State Department to annually assess school curriculums in the West Bank and Gaza and report its...
by Elleiana Green | Oct 25, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Saying they want to protect students from explicit content in school, Republican lawmakers on October 18, 2023, pushed for parents to have more power over educators in deciding the materials used in schools. As books containing LGBTQ+ and Black stories...
by Elleiana Green | Oct 4, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON — Educators across the country have experienced negative impacts on their ability to teach due to the national discourse around book bans, a study published by First Book Research & Insights on Tuesday found. The study, which surveyed 1,500 educators...
by Gaby Striano | Sep 29, 2023 | Education, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON — Recent studies have found that climate change disrupts the education of 40 million students a year. Due to environmental disasters like the Maui wildfires and deteriorating infrastructure, those numbers are only expected to go up. For Rep. Jamaal Bowman...
by Ishmael Bonsu | Mar 1, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON – In a second, lesser-known case, the Supreme Court this week heard oral arguments from individual borrowers about whether they have the legal standing to challenge the Department of Education’s student-debt relief plan. The court also considered...
by Jacob Wendler | Feb 28, 2023 | Education, Featured
WASHINGTON –– Hundreds of activists gathered outside the Supreme Court Tuesday morning to urge the justices to allow President Joe Biden’s student debt relief program to take effect. Inside the high court, the justices heard oral arguments in Biden v. Nebraska, a case...
by Nicole Markus | Feb 28, 2023 | Education, Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday for Biden v. Nebraska, a case which challenges President Joe Biden’s plan to forgive up to $20,000 for those with federally held student debts. The case looked at two major issues: standing and merit. The...
