By Amanda Menas North Carolina educator Turquoise LeJeune Parker knows how amazing her students are. In fact, she calls her students Mrs. Parker’s Professors. However, supporting her professors requires leadership in and out of the classroom. “I want us to be celebrating Black joy, celebrating Black intelligence, not normalizing it,” said Parker, a K-5 media…
By Amanda Menas / photo: Joe Biden at NEA’s Strong Public Schools Presidential Forum in Houston on July 5, 2019. “Education should be put more in the hands of educators. You should have more input on what you teach, how you teach it, when you teach it,” Joe Biden told more than 8,000 educators at…
By a vote of 233-188, the House passed the Moving Forward Act (H.R. 2), which now includes the Reopen and Rebuild America’s Schools Act that provides significant support for modernizing public schools. Specifically, the bill would create a $100 billion grant program that targets high-poverty schools and a $30 billion tax-credit bond program for repairing,…
The U.S. Senate should act now to make the safe reopening of schools possible. But Majority Leader McConnell insists on a reckless, “wait-and-see” approach.
Stacey Abrams, former minority leader in the Georgia House of Representatives and founder of Fair Fight, says the welfare of our students and the future of our public schools are on the line in the upcoming election.