The chancellor of the New York City Department of Education controls many of the opportunities and policies that shape the education of New York's students. Unfortunately, the tenure of Richard Carranza, New York's current chancellor, has been controversial from the start. Shortly after his hiring in April 2018, Carranza was criticized for his late ...
Joel Greenwald can't dance. If you ask him, he'll say that he has "three left feet." His son Zachary, however, loves to dance. Zach loves dancing so much that in seventh grade after he was told competitive school dance teams are only for girls, he kept dancing with a private studio. Meander through the Father's ...
Sixty-five years ago today, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The court held that segregation in schools violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and ordered school districts to admit students on a non-racial basis. In so doing, the court adopted the views ...
Equal protection is one of the foundational principles of the United States. All individuals, no matter the color of their skin or their gender, must be treated equally under the law. Unfortunately, this principle and clear legal requirement has not always been recognized in practice. In Minnesota, boys used to be discriminated against and prevente ...
Few people would argue that parents shouldn't be able to decide how and where to educate their children. But the state of Montana is doing just that. When Kathy and Jerry Armstrong's son entered middle school, they felt their local public schools did not adequately nurture the values and character traits they wanted for their ...
This article was originally published in the Houston Chronicle on March 21, 2019. There are some scenarios where you might expect an outfit to raise eyebrows — for example, wearing white to a wedding, a Longhorns shirt in College Station or a dress made of meat to a celebrity awards show. But when Houston resident ...
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