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What role do Americans think religion should play in public schools? | YouGov More Americans oppose than support requiring classrooms to display the Ten commandments.

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Capito, Colleagues Advocate for Critical Education Funding | U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), chairman of the Senate...

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Trump Seeks Cuts To STEM Education, Emerging Technology Job Training STEM education and job training at community and technical colleges will be implicated in funding cuts sought by President Trump at the U.S. National Science Foundation.

www.forbes.com/sites/shalin... Remind me, how this is going to "Make America Great???"

The Surprising Role of Public Universities in Forging America’s Leaders Flagship graduates outnumber elite-school alums in many positions of power and achievement, especially in state government

A different way to think about the long-term impact of a student's choice when selecting a higher ed institution. www.educationnext.org/the-surprisi...

High Schoolers, Ready to Conquer Mars? Join the 2025 Mission to Mars Engineering Design Competition! - The Mars Society The Mars Society is very proud to launch its Fourth Annual International Mission to Mars Engineering Design Competition for high school students aged 13-19 worldwide. This exciting virtual program inv...

MAY 15th - Application Deadline www.marssociety.org/news/2025/03...

NIH autism study will pull from private medical records The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.

This development deserves your attention....some see similarities to historical actions undertaken by the Nazis, but more importantly, what does it mean for personal privacy & access to medical records today?

Isolation & Neglect: Disability Advocates Fear Return to a Bleak Past Under HHS Much of what the Trump administration envisions for special education is likely illegal, critics say. Here’s what can happen if it goes through anyway

Isolation & Neglect: Disability Advocates Fear Return to a Bleak Past Under HHS www.the74million.org/article/isol...

Great advice…especially for those who are engaged in leading associations or other non-profits. www.asaecenter.org/resources/ar...

How The SAVE Act Could Impact Married Women And Other Voters Congress is potentially voting this week on a bill that would make it harder for millions of Americans to exercise their right to vote.

PLEASE! Speak out against this...there is little evidence it is needed and just another way to suppress voter participation! www.forbes.com/sites/hollyc...

New Report: Despite Red Ink & Academic Losses, School Boards Rarely Talk Budgets With painful choices looming, a third of boards spent less than 15 minutes considering district finances. More than half of members had no questions

New Report: Despite Red Ink & Academic Losses, School Boards Rarely Talk Budgets www.the74million.org/article/new-... Consider this when selecting school board members in your community!!

Close to $3 Billion in Relief Funds in Jeopardy as Ed Dept. Halts Payments Officials labeled even extensions agreed upon during Trump’s tenure ‘unreasonable’ and cited what it called examples of ‘misuse.’

Close to $3 Billion in Pandemic Funds in Jeopardy as Education Department Abruptly Halts Payments www.the74million.org/article/clos...

Trump change for kids with disabilities violates law, critics say President Trump said he would move oversight of services for students with disabilities to Health and Human Services. Advocates worry the agency doesn’t have the staff or expertise to handle the chang...

Make no mistake....children WILL be impacted! www.chalkbeat.org/2025/03/22/t...

Project 2025 and the Disability Community - DREDF Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund

For those wondering what "might be next" regarding students & individuals with disabilities, revisiting this summary of "highlights" from Project 2025 offers insights. dredf.org/blog-post/pr...

Opinion: Time for State Ed-Tech Leaders to Take Matters Into Our Own Hands In lieu of federal leadership on ed-tech issues from the digital divide to cybersecurity to AI governance, state education technology offices will have to step up with investments, training, advocacy ...

Some states will meet this new challenge while offers may not have the capacity to keep pace with technology innovation. Is this really more efficient than having the Dept of Education lead this work??? www.govtech.com/education/k-...

College Board Adds AP Courses in Cybersecurity, Business One of two Advanced Placement classes developed with input from industry partners via a new career-driven model, dubbed AP Career Kickstart, is a cybersecurity course being piloted in 200 schools this...

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Find a classroom to support | DonorsChoose DonorsChoose makes it easy for anyone to help students in need. Public school teachers from every corner of America post classroom project requests on our site, and you can give any amount to the p...

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How Hyper-Local PR Strategies Benefit Education Marketers in a Changing Environment | C. Blohm & Associates, Inc. Explore how hyperlocal PR strategies offer a competitive advantage to education companies in a landscape where states have increasing influence.

Solid advice for companies selling in the K-12 space at this chaotic time! www.cblohm.com/blog/educati...

School boards should focus budget deliberations on student outcomes, financial sustainability Research showing that school board trustees spend little time deliberating their districts' budget in public meetings.

Electing competent board members, AND requiring financial training is a start! School boards should focus budget deliberations on student outcomes, financial sustainability www.brookings.edu/articles/sch...

Pregnant and parenting students fall victim to lawsuit targeting LGBTQ rights When a federal judge scrapped new Title IX rules for LGBTQ students, expanded protections for student parents were tossed out, too.

So the women who did NOT get an abortion are finding their parental protections eliminated while they pursue an education making it even more difficult to create a stable life for the new child! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Teacher ordered to remove signs from classroom, including one saying ‘Everyone is welcome here’ "There are only two opinions on this sign: Everyone is welcome here, or not everyone is welcome here,” argues Sarah Inama, a sixth-grade history teacher.

Local control at its finest! Apparently the school board really does NOT believe everyone is welcome! www.today.com/parents/teac...

Trump signs order to cut staff at Voice of America and other US-funded media organizations - WTOP News President Donald Trump’s administration on Saturday began making deep cuts to Voice of America and other government-run, pro-democracy programming.

One more example of stepping away from being a world leader in support of democracy. wtop.com/national/202...

School Libraries Are Shrinking When Students May Need Them Most The number of school librarians in Hawaiʻi has declined dramatically over the past 20 years, despite an increased need to help students navigate misinformation and digital learning.

Hawaiʻi School Libraries Are Shrinking When Students May Need Them Most www.civilbeat.org/2025/03/hawa...

Not at all surprising for multiple reasons...but also having run meetings, you can get stuck with someone in a role you don't like, but need to include their position to be relevant. That's unfortunately who we have right now.

FBI, EPA, and Treasury told Citibank to freeze funds as Trump administration tries to claw back climate money | TechCrunch The accounts were frozen in February, but documents filed today make public details which had previously been unknown.

This is wrong. These grants were legally awarded. Going after Habitat for Humanity??? Disgusting! techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/f...

A Quick Cutter's Guide to the US Department of Education Eliminating the US Department of Education and all that it does would produce major savings. But so would eliminating much of what it does short of full termination, especially if we keep only what is...

"Cut it all" was the Cato Institute's first choice for Dept of Ed cuts. Consider this week's efforts as a "first step" towards getting to their first choice recommendation! www.cato.org/blog/quick-c...

Top scholar says evidence for special education inclusion is 'fundamentally flawed' Analysis of 50 years of research argues that there isn’t strong evidence for the academic advantages of placing children with disabilities in general education classrooms

This could be interesting to follow with new GOP leadership that is enthusiastically "less Woke" about inclusion and access and shrinking school funding. A shake-up of thinking after 50 years! hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

2025 Beyond100K Trends Report: Trends and Predictions That Are Defining STEM in 2025 - Beyond100K As a network of change makers, Beyond100K has a unique view of the field. This year’s Trends Report captures what we’re hearing directly from partners

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Gutting the Department of Education Won’t Improve Education – But That’s Not the Goal By eliminating the Department of Education, Trump is trying to scam every student and family in America

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Catholic Schools Can’t Compete Tuition-free charter schools dominate school choice

Interesting research around the growth of charters & impact on Catholic schools. www.educationnext.org/catholic-sch...