Published 2025-02-19 09:51 9:51 February 19, 2025 am This story was originally published by EdSurge. It’s that time of year when seemingly everyone has the sniffles, and many people are laid up with a cold, the flu or some other unsavory affliction. While staff absences are rarely seamless in any setting, in K-12 schools, there is at least a system designed to support such occurrences. Public school districts have a reserve of substitute teachers they can tap into when sickness spreads and staff begin to call […]

Published 2025-02-18 13:42 1:42 February 18, 2025 pm Ahead of her sophomore year of college, Lily Rood was thinking about her future: her career, her LGBTQ+ advocacy, her interest in politics and government. As the first transgender woman to be class president at Mount Holyoke College — and someone who first went door-knocking for a congressional campaign at 13 — she wanted to find ways to become a better leader.  She looked for conferences to hone her skills. She searched for groups cultivating trans leaders […]

Published 2025-02-18 05:00 5:00 February 18, 2025 am Republicans who control Congress are reportedly weighing cuts to Medicaid, the popular federal-state insurance program that provides health and long-term care to millions of Americans. Lawmakers have indicated the cuts would help pay for President Donald Trump’s tax policy, which is expected to include permanent tax breaks for wealthy Americans. On January 31, Trump said he would “love and cherish” Social Security and Medicare — two programs that disproportionately provide financial support and care for older Americans […]

Published 2025-02-17 21:21 9:21 February 17, 2025 pm President Donald Trump has replaced the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration after Michelle King left the agency rather than give billionaire Elon Musk’s task force access to sensitive information about hundreds of millions of Americans.  King, who was with the agency for more than 30 years before becoming its acting director last month, left over the holiday weekend. She declined to give the Musk-led effort to cut federal spending and the workforce, known as the […]

Content warning: The following contains depictions of graphic violence. Reader discretion is advised. Dirty Civilian, a preparedness influencer channel that espouses antigovernment beliefs, created a recent video that includes the fictional killing of U.N. peacekeeping soldiers. Dirty Civilian’s mission, according to hosts Drew Hopkins and Josh Lowry, is to “inform and inspire capable men to build strong families and resilient communities.” The language closely mirrors that of similar antigovernment groups that operate under the guise of disaster preparedness. The Tennessee-based group has over half a […]

Since the fall of Roe v. Wade, tens of thousands of people in states with abortion bans have continued to access the procedure through telehealth. But two separate cases targeting a New York physician could test the laws put in place to protect doctors who prescribe and mail abortion medications, jeopardizing the future of abortion access across the country. Dr. Margaret Carpenter has allegedly prescribed and mailed abortion pills to patients in Texas and Louisiana, both states where abortion is almost completely illegal. Texas Attorney […]