The election is tomorrow and the campaign ads are everywhere. The later into election season you get, the more attack ads you will see. What most people wouldn’t expect is that the villain in those attack ads is the Secretary of Education. All around the country Betsy DeVos has been cast as the central villain…
President Trump and Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos were in Indianapolis this past weekend. The reason? They were in town for the National FFA Convention. FFA, which formally stands for “Future Farmers of America”, is a student organization “for those interested in agriculture and leadership”. The organization boast over 8,568 chapters, and 600,000 members in…
The money problems of Indianapolis Public Schools have been well documented for the past couple of years. While the district is hoping for an influx of money via the referendum on the upcoming ballot, they are also looking for other ways to cut costs as well including changing facilities. Indianapolis Public Schools is looking to…
It’s an election year. You may have noticed the attack ads and canvassing in your neighborhood. Your students have likely noticed these things too, but they might not necessarily have the context to understand exactly what is going on. It’s always a good idea to teach students about the political process but an election year…
For-profit schools have been in the news a lot lately for a variety of reasons. Many of them have been shut down or been forced to shut down due to violations leaving their students with no recourse. An Obama-era policy called borrower defense was supposed to make it easier for defrauded students to get…
Opening arguments are set to begin in federal court over Harvard University’s admission system. Harvard, like other Ivy League schools, has a notoriously difficult admission process. However, the latest case centers around whether or not the admission process is more difficult for members of certain groups than others. In this case, that group in question…
It’s election season. As it currently stands, Republicans control every single part of the government. The President, House, and Senate are Republican-held. The recent appointment of Brett Kavanaugh ensures that the Supreme Court will have a conservative majority for at least the next few years, meaning that all branches of the government are right leaning….
In what has become a near-weekly occurrence, Kanye West is in the news for a reason other than his music. This past week Kanye West doubled down on his controversial embrace of President Donald Trump and his ideas. Kanye West is far from the only celebrity to come out as a Trump supporter, but there…
Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick recently announced that she would not seek re-election. Additionally, she offered her opinion on the controversial subject of vouchers schools excluding LGBT students and employees. Lost in the shuffle was the unveiling of DOE’s Legislative Priorities. The priorities are broken down into three categories: student learning, school improvement,…
Back in August, Shelly Fitzgerald, a guidance counselor at Roncalli High School says she was given the choice to resign from her school or dissolve her marriage because her school was a Catholic school, and her marriage was a same-sex marriage. The ensuing backlash has attracted national attention. Now the state superintendent has weighed in…