Tackling major issues with civility, including policy revisions and curriculum changes, was a welcomed change from the wrangling and backstabbing of the last two years.
Unfortunately, extremist groups like Moms for Liberty are attacking CSE in schools claiming it “sexualizes” students, while even suggesting it’s a Trojan horse for Critical Race Theory.
As voucher systems expand, they cannibalize states’ ability to pay for their public education commitments. Vouchers do, however, benefit churches and church schools.
A chaotic exit by the outgoing Republican board majority sabotaged the first meeting of the newly elected board.
“It’s no longer a matter of political convenience, but a matter of what students are constitutionally entitled to,” said Public Interest Law Center attorney Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg.
Humanities in public schools help students understand, and engage with, the world.
The board’s lack of financial transparency prohibits stakeholders from seeing a full accounting of the district’s spending, including paying for services that aren’t utilized.
A Supreme Court ruling, likely to come in spring or early summer 2024, could also establish whether social media accounts of public officials should be treated as personal or governmental.
If the right-wing Supreme Court majority gives Oklahoma the green light to open the nation’s first religious public charter school, the already crumbling wall separating Church and State will have a gaping hole in it.
“But without federal funding, the road ahead becomes more challenging — not just in sustaining what we do now, but in continuing to grow and innovate,” said Bill Marrazzo, President & CEO for WHYY.
Proposed funding cuts in the draft budget “would impact our ability to do similar investigations and ensure student safety in the future,” said Jennifer Garman, CEO of Philadelphia-based Disability Rights Pennsylvania.
Fetterman began repeating himself, shouting and questioning why “everybody is mad at me,” “why does everyone hate me, what did I ever do” and slamming his hands on a desk, according to one person who was briefed on what occurred.
Critics of the potential local 287(g) partnership raised concerns over racial profiling, wrongful arrests, lack of due process, and community safety. However, supporters also turned out raising the issues of human trafficking, crime, and alleged treason.
At the first two hearings, some folks brought receipts, and some brought excuses, while the cyber charters themselves declined to appear at all.
