My mother was a teacher. She taught first-graders for several years and enjoyed it. She even included her first-graders in her wedding, a choice she has never seemed to regret. Now, many years later, she still talks happily about her students. She was a resourceful and determined teacher. After leaving her school, she taught us
“If a child eats hot lunch at school every day, they’re having approximately 180 meals out of the year at their educational institution.” Dr. Axe School meals. For many people, these two words bring apathy, if not downright discomfort. Soggy vegetables, wilted salads, and some kind of unidentifiable slosh called “gravy” come to mind.
The Indiana State Teachers Association—the largest teacher’s union in the state—called on state lawmakers to increase teacher pay to compensate for the overwhelming workload and staff shortages. Indiana State Teachers Association (ISTA) President Keith Gambill said at a news conference on Monday that they’re “slowly making progress” with teacher pay, but that more is needed
The national supply chain shortage has been tough on many organizations this year—and it’s worse than just the expected delayed arrival of Christmas presents. Our nation’s schools have been hit particularly hard as they struggle to bring in basic necessities like food for students. In many school cafeterias, the meals students end up eating weren’t
Students and teachers in over a dozen Atlanta public schools on Wednesday were surprised and excited to hear that they were receiving free laptops. The program is part of Verizon Innovative Learning Schools, which equips students and teachers of participating schools with laptops, WXIA-TV reports. "The [Verizon Innovative Learning Schools] program provides free devices, internet
This is Part 3 of a series of interviews with Willie Deutsch. Click here to read Part 1, and click here to read Part 2. -- Over the last 10 years, Prince William County (PWC), VA, has grown by 80,000 people! With communities growing at that rate, can you imagine the impact these numbers are
Have you ever wondered how many of your hard-earned tax dollars go into the public school system? Or maybe you’re curious about how schools create their budgets. Perhaps you’ve heard some horror stories about schools wasting money and have even felt a bit hopeless. Does anyone care about keeping schools financially accountable? Today, we
Why do schools fail? A quick answer might be, “Well, they didn’t have enough money.” That’s true, money is a big issue for many schools. But, it’s not necessarily a lack of money that causes schools to fail. Most of the time, there are other underlying problems that force a
California will spend $650 million annually to provide free lunches for 6.2 billion students. Newsweek reports that the new lunch program will be the largest in the country, made possible in part by an unanticipated budget excess for the state’s school funding. "This is so historic,” says Erin Primer, director of food services for the
The Biden Administration has proposed a $20 billion plan to diminish funding inequities between poor and rich school districts by distributing more funds to poorer areas. Sounds nice, right? Except for one major detail...As Chalkbeat shares, we don’t yet know how the plan is supposed to work. It might make sense to give more money
