Critics didn’t hold back from ripping into teachers union head Randi Weingarten after she recently said in a hearing she wanted to keep schools open during the coronavirus pandemic. This past week, the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing to examine the teachers unions’ influence on school closures
“That horrifying moment when you look frantically for an adult and realize that you’re the adult and you’re supposed to be adulting.” -An Adaptation of Many Popular Memes Adulthood is an endless maze of decisions and consequences. We don’t always know what to do, where to turn, or the best path. As we graduate high
Did you know that one school board association has monopolized Virginia for the past 116 years? Well, a group of people decided that should change. Today on The State of Education, Melvin talks to Sherri Story and Cheryl Facciani, who are part of the team behind Virginia’s new School Board Member Alliance. Sherri and
This past weekend, the Leadership Institute’s School Board Programs hosted its first-ever Learn Right: Education Leaders Summit in Sarasota, Florida to equip attendees to lead the conservative education movement. The event featured a huge lineup of noteworthy speakers, including Florida U.S. Senator Rick Scott, Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Moms for Liberty co-founder Tina Descovich, and
While clashes between school boards and parents have been getting a lot of national news coverage over the last couple of years, school boards simply aren’t one of the highlighted governing bodies in our political system. School board elections aren’t typically exciting races with wide-scale fanfare and media coverage. The bottom line is that, even
Listen in on part two of our conversation with Veronica Gemma! Are America’s school boards too far gone? Are we fighting a losing battle? Veronica Gemma has faced it all: discouragement, accusations, and pushback from her community and local school board colleagues. But she wanted transparency, so she decided to step up and challenge
The Nonprofit Moms for Liberty recently criticized the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) on Twitter for trying to implement more community schools, which the nonprofit said is only a power grab for the union and the federal government. On Sunday, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten published a column that featured four
So you want to start homeschooling? That’s great! Now is the time to start panicking. You’ve pulled your kids out of school, or you’re at least planning to once this school year is over. You’ve done the research, but you feel like it isn’t nearly enough. You still have a dozen books to buy. It
You’ve read the financial blogs and listened to the money-saving podcasts. You’ve learned from your own mistakes and acknowledged where you went wrong. You’ve talked to your kids about financial literacy and tried communicating your wisdom and experience, but are you getting through? Grappling with financial literacy in a world gone electronic is challenging. Financial
Parental involvement is important in education—we can all agree on that. But does it have any perceptible impact in the here-and-now? Veronica Gemma is here to tell you that it does! Veronica is a woman who had no previous experience in the realm of education before becoming a member of her local school board.
