The bill could help millions of students continue to access SNAP benefits beyond the pandemic.
Education & Youth
The bill would provide kids with free breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack regardless of their family’s income.
Amid COVID, gaps have widened when it comes to regular pediatrician visits, maternal mental health and food insecurity.
Students and educators say the needs of traumatized students must be addressed before real learning can take place.
The proposal would make college and university tuition-free for all students from families earning under $125,000/year.
Some union organizers say that recent budget cuts were premature, premeditated, and in some cases, draconian.
The right’s anti-trans push and the move to return creationism to the classroom emphasizes an anti-science connection.
Standardized testing under pandemic conditions will only magnify the inequities the tests were designed to perpetuate.
COVID-19 is being used as a pretext to eviscerate departments at both public and private colleges throughout the U.S.
Rhetoric about children “falling behind” shows a desire to maintain a broken status quo, not a desire for true equity.