UNRWA ran 183 schools in Gaza before Israel’s war on the territory. Those schools were converted into shelters after the start of the war in October, with approximately one million people seeking refuge in school buildings in the early months of the war.
An estimated 455 internally displaced people have been killed while sheltering at UNRWA facilities in Gaza since October.
St. Paul schools turn towards geothermal energy as Minnesota‘s climate shifts
And if students are uncomfortable, it’s difficult to focus on learning. A high school on the East Side of Saint Paul is wrapping up its first year with a new heating and cooling system that draws energy from the ground
A #School District’s Reliance on #Police to Ticket Students Is Discriminatory, Civil Rights Complaint Says
Two civil rights groups are asking the US Dept. of #Education to force the third-largest district in #Illinois to stop discriminatory discipline that involves police.
"Then there is this audaciously #undemocratic provision: To be elected to #state office, a candidate must win not only a majority of votes, but also more than half of Texas’s 254 counties...
"Lest rank-and-file GOP voters ever again be allowed to override the activists who run the party machinery, the convention approved a new rule preventing any candidate who is censured from appearing on the ballot for two years.
Billions in taxpayer dollars now go to religious schools via vouchers
The rapid expansion of state #voucher programs follows court decisions that have
💥eroded the separation between church and state.💥
School vouchers can be used at almost any private school, but the vast majority of the money is being directed to #religious#schools, according to a Washington Post examination of the nation’s largest voucher programs.
Vouchers, government money that covers education costs for families outside the public schools, vary by state
but offer up to $16,000 per student per year,
and in many cases fully cover the cost of tuition at private schools.
In some schools, a large share of the student body is benefiting from a voucher, meaning
a significant portion of the school’s funding is coming directly from the government.
The programs, popular with conservatives, are rapidly growing in GOP-run states,
with a total of 28 states plus D.C. operating some sort of voucher system.
Eight states created or expanded voucher programs last year,
and this year, Alabama, Georgia and Missouri have approved or expanded voucher-type programs.