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
‘It is obviously extremely dispiriting to have to take these steps,’ said Cornell University President Martha Pollack.
By Associated Press - December 28, 2021The Republican governor-elect has been quiet on his campaign promise to ban ‘CRT’ in the state’s schools, since winning in November. But teachers are still on high alert.
By Nick Vachon - December 17, 2021Experts say far-right activists are setting their sights on gender-affirming care providers.
By Casey Quinlan - December 16, 2021The Build Back Better Act would save parents money and provide Jewish and other faith-based early childhood centers access to federal funding to pay staff fairly.
By Cathy Rolland - December 14, 2021The Democrats’ social spending package would invest $1 billion in medical and nursing school programs and would support medical students from underrepresented communities.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - December 08, 2021Resources for educators who want to help LGBTQ youth feel safe in schools have been removed from the Florida Department of Education’s website.
By Casey Quinlan - December 07, 2021State laws targeting transgender kids have left school districts across the country in a challenging legal situation, experts say.
By Casey Quinlan - December 02, 2021Chip Roy thinks schools should be defunded over lessons about racism.
By Oliver Willis - November 23, 2021Software produced by the company Gaggle alone monitors over 5.2 million students in 1,500 districts across the nation.
By Casey Quinlan - November 19, 2021Every House Republican voted against President Joe Biden’s sweeping social safety net plan.
By Josh Israel - November 19, 2021By nearly every metric, the United States is doing very poorly when it comes to maternal and infant health.
By Lisa Needham - November 18, 2021Anti-LGBTQ groups are claiming that schools are violating the rights of teachers and parents.
By Casey Quinlan - November 18, 2021Fox News repeated falsehoods from a House Republican attack against the attorney general.
By Oliver Willis - November 17, 2021House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik wants to defund National Public Radio and take away its tax-exempt status.
By Josh Israel - November 15, 2021Schools across the U.S. are expanding their capacity to address students’ struggles with mental health.
By Associated Press - November 14, 2021Libraries are fighting nonstop efforts to remove LGBTQ books from shelves.
By Casey Quinlan - November 12, 2021Advocates called the ruling a victory for students with disabilities and noted it could have implications beyond the Lone Star State.
By Jacob Gardenswartz - November 11, 2021One conservative political action committee focused on races in some of the wealthiest and least diverse parts of the country.
By Nick Vachon - November 11, 2021The White House is encouraging schools to host community conversations and share fact sheets on the vaccines.
By Associated Press - November 08, 2021Some Republicans see the issue as a central part of their campaign strategy ahead of the 2022 midterm elections.
By Nick Vachon - November 05, 2021Several LGBTQ candidates of color and transgender and nonbinary candidates made history on Tuesday.
By Casey Quinlan - November 05, 2021Donald Trump said he and the GOP nominee for Virginia governor ‘get along very well together.’
By Emily Singer - November 01, 2021Members of the Proud Boys, many of whom harbor white supremacist views, have reportedly begun showing up to protests at school board meetings to intimidate officials.
By Matt Cohen - October 29, 2021Fox’s latest fearmongering image placed crosshairs over people at a school board meeting.
By Oliver Willis - October 28, 2021Cruz attacked Attorney General Merrick Garland for a memo he issued regarding threats of violence directed toward school board officials nationwide over anti-racism training and COVID-19 safety measures.
By Josh Axelrod - October 27, 2021Rebecca Kleefisch has falsely accused Wisconsin school officials of promoting ‘critical race theory’ in the classroom.
By Emily Singer - October 27, 2021The attorney general said in a congressional hearing on Wednesday that he would’ve regretted not acting swiftly upon receiving reports of threats to school board officials’ lives.
By Oliver Willis - October 27, 2021Fox News featured a candidate for the Loudoun County school board who opposes ‘critical race theory.’
By Oliver Willis - October 27, 2021The Virginia Republican gubernatorial nominee is leading the conservative crusade against public school officials.
By Nick Vachon - October 27, 2021The 26-year-old progressive organizer would be the district’s first Black representative.
By Nick Vachon - October 25, 2021