The right is making public education intolerable. That’s not an accident. Don't Say Gay laws and "parents rights" groups are all part of a plan to completely defund public education.

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/09/the-right-is-making-public-education-intolerable-thats-not-an-accident/

#PublicEducation #RightWingAgenda #DontSayGay #ParentsRights #DefundEducation #LGBTQRights #Politics #News

Despite ample documentation and evidence of this long game to destroy #publiceducation in the U.S., many media outlets continue to treat people like Jordan Henry as "concerned parents" instead of anti-public education agitators. #loka https://www.therealjordanhenry.com/post/many-journalists-keep-treating-loka-like-a-grassroots-movement

After 50 years, South Carolina Department of Education will no longer partner with librarian association
South Carolina, 9-2-2023
#libraries #SchoolLibraries #SchoolLibrarians #PublicEducation
https://www.wltx.com/article/news/education/sc-superintendent-school-librarian/101-814dfbcb-211e-4a2a-9cb5-987b68996bdf?fbclid=IwAR3_nXnNjTwoLtFnAohP2UqSiMYh6yXPsVp8EBn8ElE2S1FZ9k0CR3Dwqr4

#Tennessee became aware of the educational ‘impact’ of #HillsdaleCollege when governor #BillLee thought it would be a good idea to get out-of-state help with #K12 #education.

After moderate governors from each party - who realize the importance of high-quality #PublicEducation to our future economy - the #NAEP ‘national report card’ said our ‘historic rise’ led the nation in 2013. ✅

Now? https://tn.chalkbeat.org/2022/10/23/23417316/naep-tennessee-2022-pandemic-test-scores-nations-report-card

Yikes: UMass Dartmouth's College of Visual and Performing Arts pulled out of New Bedford's downtown, giving students and staff two weeks notice to vacate.

https://commonwealthmagazine.org/arts-and-culture/umass-dartmouth-exit-a-tough-blow-for-new-bedford-2/

#HigherEd #UMass #UmassDartmouth #NewBedford #Massachusetts #VisualArts #PerformingArts #PublicEducation #FallRiver #Wareham

Very scary: #publiceducation
https://wapo.st/3svRzn7

@velshi I only caught part of what appeared to be a #BannedBookClub discussion with Eddie Glaude and Basil Smikle, passionate and insightful analysis about the current book banning and attacks on #libraries, #publiceducation. More discussions like this, please #MSNBC

(27 Aug) - 2024 Republicans want to eliminate the Education Department. What would that look like? https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4171756-2024-republicans-want-to-eliminate-the-education-department-what-would-that-look-like/ #EducationDepartmentElimination #Republican2024Agenda #EducationReform #GovernmentSpending #EducationPolicy #PublicEducation #Politics #News https://mastodon.sdf.org/@uspolitics/110963847337853572

2024 Republicans want to eliminate the Education Department. What would that look like?

https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4171756-2024-republicans-want-to-eliminate-the-education-department-what-would-that-look-like/

#EducationDepartmentElimination #Republican2024Agenda #EducationReform #GovernmentSpending #EducationPolicy #PublicEducation #Politics #News

While Metro #Nashville public schools are trying to fill a record number of teaching positions, especially in #Math and #Science , early voting has begun in the Mayoral race run-off between #FreddieOConnell (who sends his kids to the same public school he went to) and #AliceRolli (who sends her kids to a religious private school, many of which teach #CreationScience in #Tennessee).

#BananaRepublicans don’t care about the #TeacherShortage in #PublicEducation because they want it to fail. 🤷🏻‍♂️

What our #math curriculum will look like before long, if #RyanWalters get his way with his #ChristianNationalist takeover of #PublicEducation in #Oklahoma.

#OKEd

"The chaplains warn the policy created with the passage of Senate Bill 763, which goes into effect Sept. 1, includes no minimum educational or training standards for school chaplains hired to work in mental health roles and does nothing to prevent them from proselytizing students of different or no religious affiliation."

#Texas #ChurchandState #PublicEducation
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"Texas school districts should reject a new state law that permits hiring government-approved chaplains to counsel public school children, more than 100 chaplains say in an Aug. 22 letter to school board members statewide."

~ Jeff Brumley

#Texas #ChurchandState #PublicEducation
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https://baptistnews.com/article/100-chaplains-urge-texas-schools-not-to-take-the-bait-on-school-chaplains/

#whiteprivilege: The move to disproportionately lower what the #wealthy pay in #taxes will further undermine #communities that #suffer from #disinvestment... more budget cuts will come for essential services, like #publiceducation and #infrastructure #maintenance. Lower-income residents, they warn, will be hurt most.

“The wealthy tend to always look out for themselves,” Edwards said.

#alecexposed #FossilFuelConservatism #AntiWoke
#RacistRobertsCourt #TaxBillionairesOutOfExistence
#KochBirchSociety
#JohnLewisVotingRightsAct
#pandemic

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/the-wealthy-tend-to-always-look-out-for-themselves-state-taxes-exacerbate-income-inequality/? utm_source=press.coop

"It’s telling that as WVU announces these devastating cuts Johns Hopkins University, a private R1 university in Baltimore, is making 80 tenure-track hires in AI. Marshall University, in Huntington, W.Va., announced plans last week to build a $45 million cyber-security center, despite similarly declining enrollment. It’s not hard to see the tech layoff-to-academic pipeline this summer."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/wvu-cuts-higher-education/

#HigherEd #PublicEducation #PublicGood #technology #Education

@baarda Isn’t that the purpose of teaching #CriticalThinking in #PublicEducation ? 🤔

Three education stories today with links to DemocracyNow coverage:

1. Arkansas Orders Credits Be Withheld for AP African American Studies https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/16/headlines/arkansas_orders_credits_be_withheld_for_ap_african_american_studies_in_high_school

2. Florida Colleges Drop AP Psychology as Chilling Effect from Draconian Censorship Law Takes Hold https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/16/headlines/florida_colleges_drop_ap_psychology_as_chilling_effect_from_draconian_censorship_law_takes_hold

3. Rights Groups Sue Oklahoma to Halt Funding of First Religious Public School in U.S. https://www.democracynow.org/2023/8/16/headlines/rights_groups_sue_oklahoma_to_halt_funding_of_first_religious_public_school_in_us

#edu #education #publiceducation #psychology

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/08/thomas-jefferson-high-school-affirmative-action-supreme-court/

#affirmativeaction: This next phase targets #admissions policies in K-12 schools, and is an effort to maintain the #statusquo, even as #American #publiceducation grows increasingly #segregated.
#equalprotection #accesstoqualityeducation #socialconsequences

Charter schools are a scam to drain public school resources, provide even more sub par schools, and hand the profits off to a corporation. And they always start with grift and corruption.

Federal probe in Florida should raise more than eyebrows in Arkansas - Arkansas Times
https://arktimes.com/news/2023/08/14/federal-probe-in-florida-should-raise-more-than-eyebrows-in-arkansas #arkansas #education #charterschools #publiceducation

NCF Freedom Inc, which has applied for nonprofit status, filed a lawsuit in federal district court challenging SB 266. The group is run by New College alumni and supporters. #newcollege #publiceducation https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/politics/2023/08/14/lawsuit-accuses-desantis-of-violating-free-speech-with-higher-ed-law/70559267007/