Thursday, October 29, 2026

Tag: education

Why society is increasingly turning to community schools to address the...

The struggles of a rural school district in New Mexico illustrate how educators and parents believe they know what will work—if only they can get policy leaders to support it.

Making sense of Florida’s nonsensical history curriculum

‘Slavery wasn’t so bad; white men are the real victims’: these are the messages that appear to stem from the right-wing war on history. It’s part of a bigger picture rooted in the politics of fear.

Vox’s student loan ‘expert’ is paid by debt collectors

Kevin Carey’s job is funded by corporations that stand to lose so much from Biden’s cancellation of federal student loans deserves a disclosure from Vox.

Biden to cancel $39 billion in student loans post SCOTUS decision

More than 800,000 borrowers with debts outstanding for more than 20 years could have their student loans discharged.

How students jump started a bold new campaign for debt abolition 

In response to these ongoing threats, students are once again taking action.

Right-wing indoctrination in charter schools at taxpayer expense

A “new breed” of charter schools is spreading conservative ideology and Christian nationalism.

Sanders, Jayapal re-up plan to make college tuition-free by taxing Wall...

Sanders' office called the proposal "the most substantial expansion of higher education access since the Great Society and President Lyndon B. Johnson's Higher Education Act of 1965."

GOP resolution to block student debt relief would have ‘ruinous impact,’...

"Taking back student debt relief already delivered to public service workers is reckless, cruel, unjust, and un-American."

Republicans want to defund our libraries

Claiming to protect children, Republicans are going after libraries and librarians instead of the police, gun manufacturers, and actual child sexual abusers.

Why there is a growing student absentee rate—and how community schools...

Experts call for cultivating better student relationships and providing families with more supports—exactly what the community schools approach is all about.

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Sign outside the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington, D.C.

Largest U.S. corporations paid 10.4% federal tax in 2025, ITEP finds

The study of 706 companies counted 114 that paid no current federal income tax and $198 billion in subsidies from rates below 21%

Insurers drop Medicare Advantage plans for 1 million seniors

KFF counted 193 counties with no Medicare Advantage drug plan open to general enrollment in 2027, up from 123 this year
Cleta Mitchell. Photo: Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

How Cleta Mitchell Turned Trump’s “Big Lie” Into a Movement

Conservative powerbroker Cleta Mitchell has raised a grassroots army to transform American voting systems and worked closely with the administration to enact her plans. No one besides Trump himself has done more to overhaul elections.

Gaza newborn dies of hypothermia as Israel continues to block lifesaving aid

A two-week-old infant’s death amid winter storms underscores mounting warnings from UN agencies that blocked shelter, destroyed hospitals, and widespread hunger are making exposure deadly for Gaza’s youngest residents.
Chart of the Keeling Curve showing atmospheric carbon dioxide rising at Mauna Loa

Greenhouse gases hit record highs in 2025, WMO says

Carbon dioxide reached 426.8 parts per million, up from 377.5 when the UN weather agency began its bulletin in 2004