Breaking News
Texas school districts say upgrades to the state’s student data reporting system could hurt funding
Tuesday, September 10th, 2024
via The Associated PressUpgrades to the system Texas uses to collect student, staff and financial data from school districts are causing serious concerns among school administrators and data specialists across the state who say the changes have led to thousands of unresolved errors that could potentially cause them to lose
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New Hampshire primary voters to pick candidates for short but intense general election campaigns
Tuesday, September 10th, 2024
via The Associated PressNew Hampshire primary voters are picking candidates for governor, Congress and the entire state Legislature.
School Board – General
Schools spend billions on metal detectors. Pick up the tab, gun folks.
Monday, September 9th, 2024
via The Washington PostMontgomery County schools are about to spend a fortune on metal detectors. Gunmakers should pick up the tab the same way beer companies pay for DUI education.
School Board – General
Trump pledges to jail opponents, baselessly suggests election will be stolen from him
Sunday, September 8th, 2024
via The Washington PostThe former president's latest threats, made in a social media post, represent the most overt signal yet that he will not accept the result in November if he loses.
Parents
School districts race to invest in cooling solutions as classrooms and playgrounds heat up
Sunday, September 8th, 2024
via The Associated PressScores of schools across the U.S. are carpeted in asphalt with no shade. The situation has become acute enough that kids are losing classroom time to closures related to heat.
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Walz touts Democratic record of defending LGBTQ+ rights, says Harris will advance cause if elected
Sunday, September 8th, 2024
via The Associated PressMinnesota Gov. Tim Walz touted Vice President Kamala Harris' record of defending LGBTQ+ rights, pledging to a supportive crowd that she will advance their cause if elected president.
Parents
The former Uvalde schools police chief asks judge to throw out the charges against him
Friday, September 6th, 2024
via The Associated PressThe former Uvalde, Texas, schools police chief is asking a judge to throw out the criminal indictment against him over the slow law enforcement response to the 2022 school shooting massacre.
School Safety
Georgia school shooting stirs debate about safe storage laws for guns
Friday, September 6th, 2024
via The Associated PressA deadly shooting at a Georgia high school has stirred debate about laws encouraging the safe storage of guns.
School Safety
Security alerts at Apalachee helped save lives, officials say
Friday, September 6th, 2024
via The Washington PostBut many questions still remain about whether more could have been done to prevent the shooting.
School Board – General, School Safety
JD Vance says school shootings are a ‘fact of life,’ calls for better security
Thursday, September 5th, 2024
via The Associated PressRepublican vice presidential nominee JD Vance says school shootings are a 'fact of life" and the U.S. needs to harden security to prevent more carnage.
School Safety
Georgia school shooting elevates gun violence as issue in Harris-Trump race
Thursday, September 5th, 2024
via The Washington PostThe shooting came as the two presidential candidates have been campaigning most prominently on issues including the economy, abortion rights and immigration.
School Safety
Corrections: Sept. 5, 2024
Thursday, September 5th, 2024
via The New York TimesCorrections that appeared in print on Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024.
Parents
Schools hiring more teachers without traditional training. They hope Texas will pay to prepare them.
Wednesday, September 4th, 2024
via The Associated PressWhen Texas lawmakers passed legislation in 2015 that created a pathway for public schools to hire more teachers without formal classroom training, one goal was to make the profession more attractive to individuals from different paths who could offer hands-on learning to students.
School Board – General
JD Vance’s Catholicism helped shape his views. So did this little-known group of Catholic thinkers
Wednesday, September 4th, 2024
via The Washington PostOhio Sen. JD Vance's 2019 conversion to Catholicism helped shape his political worldview
Racism
DeSantis’s cuts to arts funding put pressure on schools, rural areas
Wednesday, September 4th, 2024
via The Washington PostArtists and community leaders are still reckoning with a surprise cut to the state's Republican-approved arts budget.
Parents
Takeaways from AP’s report on JD Vance and the Catholic postliberals in his circle of influence
Wednesday, September 4th, 2024
via The Associated PressOhio Sen. JD Vance's 2019 conversion to Catholicism put him in close touch with a Catholic intellectual movement known as postliberalism.
Racism
From School Librarian to Activist: ‘The Hate Level and the Vitriol Is Unreal’
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024
via The New York TimesAmid a surge in book bans nationwide, the librarian Amanda Jones was targeted by vicious threats. So she decided to fight back.
Book Bans
Condoms can’t be trusted and boys don’t cry in Catholic Paraguay’s first sex ed program
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2024
via The Associated PressIn predominantly Catholic Paraguay, with the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in South America, the Ministry of Education has approved the country's first national sex education curriculum.
Sex Education
Ground Game: Courting influencers, third-party candidates, and noncitizen voting
Monday, September 2nd, 2024
via The Associated PressThis newsletter was originally sent out via email to our Ground Game subscribers on September 02, 2024. You can subscribe at any time at apnews.com/newsletters.
School Board – General, Parent Involvement
With his 1776 Commission on patriotism, Trump helped spark a culture war
Monday, September 2nd, 2024
via The Washington PostTrump attempted to use federal power to define how America's history is taught -- and promises to try again
School Board – General, Racism