The Presidential and VP Candidates’ Plans for Schooling Coverage

As educators, we perceive the vital function that public coverage performs in shaping our school rooms, from funding to the assets obtainable for our college students. Within the upcoming presidential election, candidates’ training plans are diversified and replicate their priorities for academics, college students, and the general training system. From early childhood applications to highschool…

Fla. BoG will increase oversight of presidential searches

The Florida Board of Governors can have extra say in presidential searches on the state’s public establishments, approving a new coverage Wednesday that may require its chair to log out on a listing of finalists earlier than the candidates are submitted to particular person governing boards. Institutional search committees will advance a listing of finalists…

When a U.S. presidential candidate is named a “DEI rent”

Of their insults aimed on the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris, some congressional Republicans have used three letters usually bandied about in larger schooling lately: DEI, for variety, fairness and inclusion. They’ve known as Harris—who’s concurrently the nation’s first Black, first Asian American and first feminine vice chairman—a “DEI rent.” Donald Trump, for…

Kamala Harris’ First Speech to Lecturers as a Presidential Candidate

Kamala Harris’ First Speech to Lecturers as a Presidential Candidate

As a former instructor, I used to be thrilled after I heard that Vice President Kamala Harris could be talking on the American Federation of Lecturers Conference right here in Houston. Figuring out this was one in every of her first speeches as a presidential candidate, and understanding absolutely the prepare wreck of the state…

Avoiding some problematic practices in presidential searches (opinion)

Besieged by pupil protesters, congressional inquisitors, calls for from dad and mom and alumni, private assaults, authorities rules, and monetary pressures, many school and college presidents are calling it quits. Earlier this yr, the presidents of Harvard College and the College of Pennsylvania had been pressured to resign. The president of Cornell College introduced her…