Category Archives: Education
Evers signs GOP-written state budget with $2B tax cut
WHITEFISH BAY, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers signed the Republican-written state budget Thursday, enacting a two-year spending plan that includes a $2 billion income tax cut while making 50 largely minor partial vetoes, saying “unfinished business” still...
Parents of kidnapped students in Nigeria plea for help
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Praying, crying and waiting for news about their children, the parents of more than 120 Nigerian students abducted by armed bandits at the Bethel Baptist High School in the nation’s northern Kaduna state have been gathering
Myanmar protesters commemorate 1962 student resistance
BANGKOK (AP) — Pro-democracy demonstrators took to the streets Wednesday in cities and towns around Myanmar to commemorate students who lost their lives in 1962 when a military dictator violently suppressed protests against harsh university discipline ...
Are state interest-rate caps an automatic win for borrowers?
Small-dollar, short-term lenders, unburdened by a federal maximum interest rate, can charge borrowers rates of 400% or more for their loans.
Biden: What’s good for families can also be good for economy
CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (AP) — President Joe Biden pitched his proposed investments in families and education at an Illinois community college on Wednesday, telling residents of the swing district that what's good for families is also good for the economy. ...
Union will defend teachers in ‘critical race theory’ fights
One of the nation’s largest teachers unions on Tuesday vowed to defend members who are punished for teaching an “honest history” of the United States, a measure that’s intended to counter the wave of states seeking to limit classroom discussion
Ontario asks school boards to develop anti-trafficking strategies by Jan. 2022
TORONTO — Ontario is making it mandatory for all school boards to develop a strategy to combat human trafficking by the beginning of next year. The province said Tuesday that it will spend $2.4 million to support necessary training and resources
Dozens of students abducted by gunmen in northwest Nigeria
KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Dozens of students were abducted Monday by armed bandits at Bethel Baptist High School in Damishi town of Chikun Local Government Area in Kaduna State in northern Nigeria.
Galesburg, an American crossroad, tunes out feuding Congress
GALESBURG, Ill. (AP) — Pickup trucks and cars rumble north across East Main Street's railroad tracks into Galesburg, Illinois, past the red-brick Lindstrom's appliances building that has occupied the same corner for more than 100 years.
Rocky path ahead as Chicago set to get elected school board
CHICAGO (AP) — ILCHS801,802, ILSPR801 set for time release at 8a Saturday, July 3. After decades of organizing by parents, activists
