Ten years ago, on Dec. 14, 2012, the small Newtown, Connecticut, community was forever changed when a gunman killed 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The massacre remains the deadliest mass shooting in a K-12 school in the U.S. The ages of the student victims — […] Read more »
How a GOP Congress Could Roll Back Freedoms Nationwide
If Republicans win control of one or both congressional chambers this week, they will likely begin a project that could reshape the nation’s political and legal landscape: imposing on blue states the rollback of civil rights and liberties that has rapidly advanced through red states since 2021. Over the past […] Read more »
‘Channeling the Mama Bear’: How Covid Closures Became Today’s Curriculum Wars
Debates over what children are reading and learning in school, and who gets to decide, have divided school board and other state and local races nationwide. But most Americans, and especially parents of school-aged children, are satisfied with their local schools, found a new survey by Morning Consult for The […] Read more »
A Memo to Democrats
The four of us have been around politics a long time. We have been a part of some of the Democratic Party’s biggest victories; we have seen some big losses. In the 2022 election, things are as close as we have ever seen them. But we are right on the […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: School curriculum a top election concern for parents
As education increasingly becomes a focus in the midterm election, a new Fox News registered voter survey finds 8 in 10 parents are concerned about what’s being taught in schools. The only issue that worries them more is inflation. Additionally, most parents think there are problems within the school system, […] Read more »
About a third of K-12 parents are very or extremely worried a shooting could happen at their children’s school
School shootings have hit close to home for many U.S. parents. In a new Pew Research Center survey, roughly a third (32%) of parents of children in K-12 schools say they are very or extremely worried about a shooting ever happening at their children’s school. A similar share of K-12 […] Read more »