1. Democrats Seek to Organize Ahead of Midterms What You Need To Know: According to the National Conference of State Legislatures or NCSL, the first primary contest of the 2022 midterm election season will take place in Texas. 2. Republicans Use Redistricting in Effort to Take Back the House What You Need To Know: As […]
Award-winning artist and producer Pharrell Williams announced that he will be opening multiple private schools in Virginia.
A disproportionately large number of poor and minority students were not in schools for assessments this fall, complicating efforts to measure the pandemic’s effects on some of the most vulnerable students, a not-for-profit company that administers standardized testing said Tuesday. Overall, NWEA’s fall assessments showed elementary and middle school students have fallen measurably behind in […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City is shuttering schools to try to stop the renewed spread of the coronavirus, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday in a painful about-face for one of the first big U.S. school systems to bring students back to classrooms this fall. The nation’s largest public school system will halt […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Public schools in the nation’s capital will open with full-time computer distance learning, as officials have abandoned their initial plans to use a combination of distance and in-person instruction. Mayor Muriel Bowser‘s announcement Thursday was widely expected as all surrounding school districts in northern Virginia and southern Maryland had already made the […]
NEW YORK (AP) — The history of Black Catholics in the U.S. is a dramatic mix of struggles and breakthroughs, but it has been largely ignored in the curriculum of Catholic schools. That may soon change. Amid the national tumult over racial injustice, there are high-level calls for the schools to teach more about the […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — President Donald Trump insists that schools reopen this fall. Many parents, educators, doctors and economists want the same thing. But getting children back to school safely could mean keeping high-risk spots like bars and gyms closed. A growing chorus of public health experts is urging federal, state and local officials to […]
Coronavirus Update: International College Students Must Attend Classes In Person or Face Deportation
According to new guidelines released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, International college students will be forced to leave the country or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall. The new rules also include that international students must take at least some of their classes in person and, even […]
Senator Kamala Harris says “healthy communities are safe communities” – but the question is how do we get there? According to Harris, it can be achieved by increasing resources for schools, community centers, and other programs which have been proven to improve neighborhoods where these kind of budgets have not been depleted. So, where does […]
Saint Heron is doing their part to honor this year's graduates.
Late Friday afternoon, two teenagers from Carrollton High School in Carrollton City, Georgia discovered that not only had they been trending on social media for hours but that their school district expelled them for posting a racist video on TikTok. In a statement, Carrollton City Schools Superintendent Mark Albertus said the actions of both the male […]
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City will close the nation’s largest public school system on Monday, sending over 1.1 million children home in hopes of curbing the spread of coronavirus, the city’s mayor announced Sunday, calling it a “very troubling moment” as he suggested ominously that more restrictions were inevitable. LIKE US ON FACEBOOK. FOLLOW […]
