Zeljkosantrac/Getty Images I called the absolutely obnoxious "attendance line" for my daughter’s school at 7:30 a.m. "Hey! It’s Mathilda’s mom. She’ll be out today, Thursday, Nov. 7. She was up all night puking her brains out, so I think it’s best to keep her home for at least today. We don’t want to spread anything."...
Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service/Getty Images Every year, the American Library Association (ALA) releases its “State of America’s Libraries” report, highlighting the accomplishments and challenges facing these invaluable community resources. A snapshot of 2024 examined, among other trends, the issue of censorship in public and school libraries, and shared the 10 most banned books of 2024....
MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images The first 100 days of the Trump administration’s second term have been a flurry of activity as priorities shift from the aims of the Biden presidency. Already, the Education Department (ED) has undergone a number of shifts to comport with a “final mission” of eliminating the department all together, a move that...
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images Secretary of Education Linda McMahon informed states last Friday that money many had been counting on for the coming year was — after a whiplash back and forth — no longer on the table. Shortly after wide scale shutdowns in mid-March of 2020, Congress established the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief...