The West Hartford Board of Education voted Tuesday night on a motion to invite the leaders of Connecticut’s recognized Native American tribal nations to address the May 3, 2022 meeting. West Hartford Public Schools website image By Ronni Newton Following a lengthy debate on a motion raised by Republican Ethan Goldman, the West Hartford Board…
Larry Hayman, Esq. Larry Hayman, Esq. has held several roles at Ohio University, serving as an instructor, advisor, program director, and more. One of the roles that led him to return to his alma mater to support students pursuing legal education and careers after eight years of legal practice was that of a first-generation college…
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Leaders of Reclaim Idaho say the organization has collected signatures from voters in 18 of Idaho’s legislative districts as they work to get their K-12 education funding ballot initiative qualified to appear on November 2022 ballots. Reclaim Idaho volunteers and leaders are hoping to place an initiative called the Quality Education Act on the ballot…
At the beginning of the school year, when Becky Ashcraft attended an open house at her 12-year-old daughter’s school, she was surprised to find there was no teacher in her daughter’s classroom – just a teacher’s aid. “They’re like, ‘Oh, well, she does not have a teacher right now. But, you know, hopefully, we’ll get…
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Dr. Keith Reisinger-Kindle, associate director of the OB-GYN residency program at Wright State University’s medical school in Dayton, Ohio, leads a lecture by OB-GYN residents in the Wright State program on April 13. Paul Vernon / Associated Press Browse any medical dictionary, and before hitting appendectomy and anesthesia, you’ll find abortion. The first two procedures…
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Earlier this month, the American Library Association released a list of the “top 10 banned books” of 2021 to mark an unprecedented surge in attempts to drop books from school curricula in the United States. The list included best-selling titles such as “This Book is Gay” by Juno Dawson and “The Hate U Give” by…
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THE VILLAGES, Fla. – Today, Governor Ron DeSantis signed Senate Bill 7044, to reform higher education in Florida. The bill removes the stranglehold that faculty unions and accrediting agencies have had on universities and colleges and adds common-sense transparency requirements for tuition, fees and cost of materials. “Florida’s public college and university system is number…
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Norristown, PA – The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced today a total of $ 632,897 in environmental grant funds have been awarded to 63 projects, 50 of which engage youth and adults living and / or working within environmental justice areas. Grants were awarded to schools, institutions, conservation districts, and environmental and…
BOISE – With the deadline to qualify for the November ballot coming up on April 30, Reclaim Idaho volunteers pushed their school funding initiative signature numbers over the top in Kuna and Nampa this past weekend, qualifying it in all of the required 18 legislative districts, though they’re still gathering more signatures just to be…
The University convened entrepreneurs, legal experts, and luminaries to discuss how to harness the power of technology to strengthen democracy, especially in the Americas, in a conversation co-hosted with the Knight Foundation ahead of eMerge Americas 2022. University leadership later participated in various panels on the first day of eMerge. As eMerge Americas, a two-day…
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