Opinion: Virginia lawmakers must support schools in face of GOP divisiveness
Republican legislators have doubled down on their efforts to defund our public schools and divide us with scorched-earth culture wars.
By TAI Contributor - June 07, 2023Education
An estimated 20 million people will see their federal student debt erased as a result of the White House’s announcement.
By Associated Press - August 24, 2022‘If Florida truly believes we live in a post-racial society, then let it make its case,’ wrote U.S. District Judge Mark Walker. ‘But it cannot win the argument by muzzling its opponents.’
By Associated Press - August 21, 2022Michigan gubernatorial nominee Tudor Dixon focuses on favorite Republican themes such as ‘critical race theory,’ ‘school choice,’ and ‘parents’ rights’ in campaign appeals to the GOP base.
By Adrian Cole - August 17, 2022Under Biden, the Department of Education has forgiven nearly $32 billion in student debt thus far.
By Oliver Willis - August 17, 2022A mother and leading education advocate explains what work is being done in support of educators and parents of children returning to polarized and politicized schools.
By TAI Contributor - August 15, 2022The bipartisan Keep Kids Fed Act passed in the House by a vote of 376-42.
By Josh Israel - June 23, 2022The proposal is intended to replace a set of controversial rules issued during the Trump administration by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
By Associated Press - June 23, 2022American Rescue Plan funds are going to programs that assist students in the areas of mental health, academic achievement, career development, literacy, and life outside of the classroom.
By Oliver Willis - June 10, 2022The Ohio Legislature has passed a bill that would cut the required firearms training time for teachers who want to carry guns on school grounds.
By Emily Singer - June 02, 2022Conservatives continue to use so-called ‘parental rights’ bills as a weapon against LGTBQ people.
By Casey Quinlan - June 01, 2022Americans could take a lesson from the German people when confronting our own history.
By Laila Hirschfeld - May 10, 2022Some Senate Republicans have openly admitted they oppose President Joe Biden granting student loan relief because it’s too popular.
By Josh Israel - April 28, 2022Charlie Crist demanded transparency about the Florida Department of Education’s reasons for banning of math textbooks.
By Adrian Cole - April 22, 2022Legislation banning LGBTQ content in schools harms teachers as well as students.
By Casey Quinlan - April 20, 2022Republican candidate Ryan Kelley said that if elected, he would charge Michigan school boards with felonies if they failed to remove ‘sexually explicit content.’
By Adrian Cole - April 20, 2022Polling results reflect a sharply politicized national debate that has consumed local school boards and, increasingly, state capitols.
By Associated Press - April 17, 2022The Biden administration announced plans intended to ‘to embed equity, racial justice, and gender equality in day-to-day governing.’
By Oliver Willis - April 14, 2022‘It’s a very organized, deliberate, well-backed campaign to push these three candidates,’ one Waukesha County parent said.
By Matt Cohen - March 30, 2022Suzette Baker, a librarian in Llano County, Texas, was fired from her job earlier this month after she refused to comply with her manager’s order to remove books that dealt with LGBTQ people’s life experiences.
By Casey Quinlan - March 24, 2022Unfortunately for Republicans, the vast majority of Americans still support LGBTQ rights.
By Oliver Willis - March 18, 2022Transgender sports bans have spread quickly through state legislatures.
By Casey Quinlan - March 10, 202243 million Americans will be back on the hook for student loan payments in less than two months unless President Joe Biden takes action.
By Josh Axelrod - March 09, 2022Today’s cartoon from Clay Jones.
By Clay Jones - March 04, 2022A growing chorus of advocates and politicians is calling for Biden to unilaterally cancel the nation’s $1.7 trillion in federal student debt.
By Josh Axelrod - March 01, 2022Republican governors have seized on anti-trans legislation as one of their current wedge issues.
By Casey Quinlan - February 08, 2022The right-wing push for ‘parental rights’ in public school education has resulted in bills targeting LGBTQ-inclusive content.
By Casey Quinlan - January 27, 2022‘I want kids to do this intentionally, to think that this is a requirement of living almost, that trying to figure out how they will make a better world should be a part of the charge of their living,’ said U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
By Associated Press - January 23, 2022Republicans are chipping away at LGBTQ rights in state legislatures across the country.
By Casey Quinlan - January 11, 2022The Biden administration continues its efforts to get children back in the classroom.
By Josh Axelrod - January 11, 2022The House minority leader is falsely blaming Democrats for the problems his party helped perpetuate.
By Josh Israel - January 03, 2022