AFT on The American Health Care Act
Nation’s only federally funded voucher program has negative effect on student achievement, study finds
Via The Washington Post By Emma Brown and Mandy McLaren April 27 Students in the nation’s only federally funded school voucher initiative performed worse on standardized tests within a year after entering D.C. private schools than peers who…
Smith Hill Report, 5-1-17
May 1, 2017 Community Schools Initiative The RIFTHP has initiated legislation to create a funding plan to create community schools in Rhode Island. Around the country, AFT has been working to create public schools that provide expanded services and programs…
Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ budget cuts would harm vulnerable kids and families
By Randi Weingarten | Contributor April 18, 2017, at 6:00 a.m. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos spent two decades defunding and destabilizing public schools in Michigan, and now she wants to spread that same agenda to every town and city in…
How cutting arts funding hurts rural communities
CBS Sunday Morning has a great segment on how federal arts funding helps rural communities diversify their economies—and what could happen to communities like Letcher County, Ky., if the Trump administration succeeds in defunding programs like the National Endowment for…