A teacher engages with a small group of students in a classroom in Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 29, 2016. AP/John Locher New CAP brief highlights innovative school schedules in Lawrence, Massachusetts; New Haven, Connecticut; and Brooklyn, New York. Washington, D.C. —(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2017. Teachers in the United States spend[Read More…]
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280 Groups Oppose Western Governors’ Association’s Efforts to Weaken Endangered Species Act
WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2017. More than 280 environmental, animal-protection, faith-based, outdoor-recreational and social-justice groups sent a letter today to the National Governors Association urging the organization to oppose any upcoming legislative changes to the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Specifically, the letter asks the national association not to support an ongoing effort[Read More…]
ACLU Statement on Revoking of Title IX Guidance for Transgender Students & Impact on Gavin Grimm Supreme Court Case
NEW YORK — (ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2017. The Trump administration yesterday informed the Supreme Court that they are revoking guidance from the Departments of Education and Justice that clarified that transgender students are protected from sex discrimination by Title IX, the federal law that bars gender discrimination. The guidance, which was[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Condemns Rollback of Federal Guidance Regarding Transgender Student Protections
IL Attorney General Lisa Madigan Madigan Commits to Protect All Illinois Students under the Illinois Human Rights Act Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2017. Attorney General Lisa Madigan today condemned the actions by the U.S. Departments of Justice and Education rescinding federal guidance that set out protections for transgender students across the[Read More…]
Attorney General Madigan Urges Education Secretary and Congressional Leaders to Maintain Federal Protections for Higher Education Students
Madigan Leads Effort to Reinforce Need for Protections Against Worst Actors in For-Profit School Industry Chicago —(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2017. Attorney General Lisa Madigan yesterday sent a letter urging the U.S. Department of Education Secretary and Congressional leaders to express their support for recent federal protections for students in higher education[Read More…]
Notes from the Cultural Front – A Call to Action
CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2017. In 1987 The Center for International Performance and Exhibition was founded by Jim De Jong and Marguerite Horberg. We came together to create an multi-arts tribute to the first, and much beloved African-American Mayor Harold Washington. Crucial to Washington’s impact was the inclusion of ordinary Chicagoans in[Read More…]
IL House Speaker Madigan Appoints Task Force to Continue Work on Education Funding Reform
IL House Speaker Michael Madigan SPRINGFIELD, Ill. –(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2017. Speaker Michael J. Madigan is forming a bipartisan House task force to continue working on an equitable education funding formula and address questions a state commission recently left unanswered. “The question of how Illinois funds our public schools is[Read More…]
Statement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions on the Withdrawal of Title IX Guidance for Transgender Students
Attorney General Jeff Sessions Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–February 22, 2017. The Department of Justice and the Department of Education today withdrew guidance for educational institutions, issued in 2015 and 2016, that took the position that the prohibitions in Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and implementing regulations against discrimination on[Read More…]
Operation Inherent Resolve: Military Strikes Continue Against ISIS in Syria, Iraq, February 23, 2017
SOUTHWEST ASIA–(ENEWSPF)–February 23, 2017 — U.S. and coalition military forces continued to attack the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria yesterday, Combined Joint Task Force Operation Inherent Resolve officials reported today. Officials reported details of yesterday’s strikes, noting that assessments of results are based on initial reports. Strikes in Syria[Read More…]
ASPIRA Charter Teachers Vote Overwhelmingly to Strike
Educators cite management failures in accountability, transparency, classroom support as basis for authorizing what would be first strike of charter school network in U.S. history. CHICAGO–(ENEWSPF)–February 22, 2017. At a boisterous picket and rally, educators at ASPIRA’s four charter schools announced the results of their strike vote this afternoon: 93[Read More…]
