Voters in this Colorado County Just Sent Betsy DeVos a Helluva Message
On Tuesday night, the longstanding fight over a controversial voucher program in Douglas County, Colorado, appeared to have come to an end. In a local school board election that has found its way into the national debate over voucher programs, four anti-voucher candidates—Chris Schor, Kevin Leung, Anthony Graziano, and Krista Holtzmann—defeated reform-supporting candidates in a landslide. The election…
The Republican Tax Plan Would Help Rich Families Send Their Children to Private School
Donald Trump with Education Secretary Betsy DeVos at the White House.Evan Vucci/AP Under a Republican tax bill that experts anticipate would disproportionately benefit wealthy Americans, families would be able to withdraw up to $10,000 a year from tax-free college savings accounts known as 529s and use it for tuition and expenses at K-12 schools, including…
Hackers Are Stealing Sensitive Student Data—And Schools are Paying Thousands of Dollars to Get it Back
FOTOKITA/iStock/GettyImages Earlier this month, students and parents in Johnston, Iowa, received a barrage of threatening text messages. “I’m going to kill some kids at your son’s high school,” one said, according to KCCI, a local Des Moines news outlet. The threats eventually caused the school district to shut schools for a day. And just last month, students and parents around…