Public School Shakedown

10/11/2024

Vice President Kamala Harris fielded a series of questions from undecided Latino voters on Thursday during an emotional town hall in Las Vegas hosted by Univision. Shauneen Miranda reports.

Kamala Harris spoke to Latino voters at a Univision town hall in Nevada, discussing immigration, health care and other issues

03/05/2024

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12/07/2023

The U.S. House voted 214-191 along party lines on a resolution to censure Bowman for pulling a fire alarm in the Cannon House Office Building on Sept. 30 while the House considered legislation to prevent a government shutdown. Censure amounts to deep disapproval of a member’s actions, but falls short of expulsion. Samantha Dietel reports.

The House of Representatives voted to censure New York Democrat Jamaal Bowman for setting off a fire alarm in a House office building.

12/05/2023

From a stage set up at home plate at American Family Field, Governor Tony Evers signed two bills on Tuesday to extend the Milwaukee Brewers’ lease at the stadium through 2050 and provide $500 million in state and local funding over the term of the lease for stadium renovations. Henry Redman reports

Gov. Tony Evers signed two bills into law Tuesday that will keep the Milwaukee Brewers in the city through 2050 and fund stadium renovations.

12/05/2023

A group of Republican lawmakers have released a proposal to dissolve the Wisconsin Elections Commission and shift the administration of the state’s to the secretary of state. Under the proposed legislation, the secretary would need approval from the elections committees of both the Assembly and Senate before taking any action on election rules. Henry Redman reports

Wisconsin legislative Republicans announced a proposal on Monday to dissolve the Wisconsin Elections Commission.

06/26/2023

remains a galvanizing issue in battleground districts and Democrats expect that talking about reproductive rights will be key to regaining control of the U.S. House and keeping control of the U.S. Senate in 2024, especially in swing states and purple districts. Jennifer Shutt has the story.

Democrats say they plan to keep a focus on reproductive rights throughout the next year-and-a-half of campaigning.

06/26/2023

“The technical term for the type of economy that we’re in now is weird.” – William Hauk, associate professor of economics at the University of South Carolina. Economists have been predicting a for months, but the labor market has remained resilient, wage growth is higher than before the pandemic, and continues to drop, now at 4% compared to 9.1% in June of last year. Despite this good news, consumers don’t feel confident about the future, according to the consumer confidence index, which is at a six-month low. National economy reporter Casey Quinlan sorts it all out.

Despite a string of good economic news, consumers don’t feel confident about the future, according to the consumer confidence index.

10/20/2021

Newest from our Education Fellow Jeff Bryant draws a straight line from the Jan 6 insurrection at the Nation's Capitol to right-wing attacks on public educators and school boards.

Rightwing militants failed to overturn the 2020 election, but they’re aiming at a new target.

10/08/2021

Our Education Fellow Jeff Bryant has a new investigative report that finds for-profit charter schools are providing entryways for wealthy investors from abroad to flood the U.S. with money to buy up struggling taxpayer-funded enterprises and put into place elaborate business schemes and networks of interrelated companies that hide their profiteering while doing little to improve the quality of services to the public.

Charter school industry lobbyists, who appear to have lost a fight in the U.S. House of Representatives over an appropriations bill that cuts federal funding to charter schools operated by for-profit businesses, are rolling out a campaign to defend their taxpayer revenues in the U.S. Senate, but fed...

09/17/2021

Our Education Fellow Sarah Lahm reports on how a rural school community in the north woods of Minnesota is benefiting from using the community schools approach in all of its programs.

The often hidden reality of rural schools in America is that a higher percentage of students in rural areas live in poverty compared to metro school districts, according to a 2021 profile of rural schools done by Ohio teacher Daniel Bailey for Edutopia. These students also tend to face unique challe...

08/30/2021

Our Midwest education fellow and Midwest correspondent Sarah Lahm writes about a school in Minnesota that is helping its community address deep trauma by practicing an approach to schooling called community schools.

Sizi Goyah, a high school math teacher in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, is overflowing with enthusiasm these days.It's summer, and students from Brooklyn Center Community Schools, where he teaches, have been spending their days outside, learning about drones and other hands-on science and technology t...

07/28/2021

Our Education Fellow Jeff Bryant reports on efforts by the charter school industry to oppose new legislation proposed by Democratic members of the US House to close loopholes in federal law that allow for-profit charter schools access to public funding. He writes: "Rather than responding to criticisms with a public examination, as public school educators have to do anytime parents and taxpayers bring their concerns to local school boards, the charter school industry’s response to calls for reform continues to resemble the hardball lobbying tactics of businesses—like those in the energy, to***co, and pharmaceutical industries—that have long resisted any calls for reform."

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