Rallying Virginia educators vow to hold legislators accountable for funding
Mold, roaches, and not enough textbooks. For Virginia educators, yesterday’s protest was about a lot more than pay.
Education Insider for January 27, 2019
Trump agrees to reopen government without funding “the wall” President Trump unexpectedly announced on Friday afternoon that he had agreed to reopen the federal government until Feb. 15, without receiving any money for his long-promised wall, to give Congress time to negotiate an agreement on border security. The day before, the Senate voted down two…
How Ohio’s Sen. Brown is helping America’s schools face the opioid crisis
By Amanda Litvinov With little fanfare, Congress passed a bipartisan package of opioid legislation last fall focused on providing long-term treatment and recovery and stopping the flow of illegal drugs into the country. Thanks largely to the efforts of Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) the sweeping legislation also includes grants for schools to add trauma-informed services…
The government shutdown is affecting public education—and it can only get worse
Though most federal education funding is safe, anxiety is mounting over school meals and other critical funding for public schools.
Education Insider for January 11, 2019
No payday for government employees due to shutdown Nearly 800,000 U.S. government employees, half of whom are required to remain on the job, are going unpaid as the longest government shutdown in U.S. history continues. The sticking point is President Trump’s demand that Congress provide $5.7 billion to build a new wall on our southern…