Topics will include Mao Zedong and the Cultural Revolution, Joseph Stalin and the Soviet System, Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution, Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Revolution, Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, and Nicolás Maduro and the Chavismo movement, according to the bill.
School enrollment is sharply up this year in Right to Work Florida, South Carolina, Arizona and Utah, as well as in several other states that defied the union bosses and kept schools open, by and large, throughout 2020-21. In Florida alone, enrollment is up a whopping 4%, or 111,000, this year.
Students that were forced into remote learning due to school closures experienced significant learning loss, which hurt poor and minority students the most, according to a study conducted by researchers at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR).
Vermont is the East Coast’s California. Its liberals have that particular something — the urge to control everything not just because they should but because they can.
On Thursday the Vermont House of Representatives gave preliminary approval to a bill that would allow the the state to dictate mascots and other school branding over the wishes of local residents and school boards. The House on Friday passed the bill on third reading, sending it on to the governor.
S.287, an act relating to improving student equity by adjusting the school funding formula and providing education quality and funding oversight (Till Amendment), passed in the State House of Representatives on April 28, 2022 by a vote of 132-11.
Flying the BLM flag and policing students from wearing conservative messaging on their clothes (such as “There are only two genders,” “I love Chick-fil-A,” or “Let’s Go Brandon”) while permitting free speech to liberal views, is what has seeded this conflict.
The Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network hosted an online panel discussion Thursday to discuss race relations and other topics for Vermont’s schools.
UVM had required people to wear masks indoors for more than a year as a way to mitigate the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now that the mandate is gone, folks are worried whether the decision could spur more cases.
The House on Tuesday passed a bill on second reading that would initiate a universal school breakfast program as well as a study on potentially including lunches. Estimates for the cost for one year are at least $29 million.
The conference, hosted by the Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network, will include a breakout space for conversations, speakers, and a presentation by VSARN students on the work they are doing to promote anti-racism in schools.
This brings to an end a very lengthy process beginning with the passage of new independent school requirements in Act 173 in the 2018 legislative session.