The Real Crisis Driving America’s Teacher Shortage
This article was co-published with EdSurge. EdSurge is a nonprofit newsroom that covers education through original journalism and research. Sign up for their newsletters. Carrie Rodgers gestures toward the silver medallion sitting atop her fridge, then waves it off. It’s nothing really, she shrugs. Still, she reaches for the disc and sets it on the kitchen…
Congress and nonprofit working to put women’s suffrage monument on National Mall
A parade in favor of women’s suffrage, the right to vote, in 1913. (National Archives) As Congress considers a bill to place a women’s suffrage monument on the National Mall, a nonprofit is working to raise the estimated $50 million needed to build it. The Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation, the nonprofit backing the effort,…
Gun law raises funding concerns for school hunting programs
Republican lawmakers worry that new federal funding rules may imperil school-based archery and hunter safety programs. Jamie Squire/Getty Images WASHINGTON — Republican lawmakers are concerned that the Biden administration is interpreting last year’s bipartisan gun safety law to cut funding for school archery and hunting programs, though programs themselves say they haven’t been affected. A…
Georgia redistricting trial opens with debate over federal requirements for Black representation
Sen. John Kennedy, who served as chair of the Senate Redistricting Committee, promotes the GOP map during the 2021 special session. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder (file photo) A federal trial that could recontour the political landscape in Georgia ahead of next year’s congressional and legislative races started Tuesday. The complex trial, which is expected to last…
Federal judge rules Georgia can resume enforcing ban on hormone treatment for transgender minors
A federal judge has reinstated Georgia’s ban on hormone treatments for transgender minors. Getty Images Georgia can resume enforcing its new law banning hormone treatments for transgender children, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. Republican lawmakers passed the controversial law this year, preventing transgender children from receiving estrogen or testosterone treatments. LGBTQ advocates said that amounted…
Trump and allies enter big week for 2020 election interference indictment charges
Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney is planning a Sept. 8 release of a special grand jury’s report on the 2020 election interference case. Stanley Dunlap/Georgia Recorder An eventful week lies ahead in the Fulton County election interference case with arraignments and the potential release of a special grand jury report that was a…