Democracy

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s latest vision for a potential second Donald Trump presidency, has been under the microscope since the Republican National Convention commenced this week in Milwaukee. The 922-page policy…

As the 2024 presidential election heats up, some people are hearing about the Heritage Foundation for the first time. The conservative think tank has a new, ambitious, and controversial policy plan, Project 2025,…

Project 2025 — you might be hearing about it and its potential effects. Vice President Kamala Harris brought it up Tuesday during her first campaign event as the presumptive Democratic…

On Tuesday, news outlets across the United States reported that Paul Dans, the director of Project 2025, a controversial conservative agenda policy plan unveiled this year by the Heritage Foundation,…

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday approved, 25-3, an $80 billion funding plan for the U.S. Department of Education in fiscal year 2025, or about $1 billion more than the current…

For the past few years, I’ve watched the first episode of the HBO miniseries “John Adams” with my ninth grade U.S. History classes, as part of our unit on the American…

The proposals in the 2025 Presidential Transition Project — known as Project 2025 and designed for Donald Trump — would significantly impact the American education system, early education through college, from…

Casting shadows over both public and school libraries, book bans have hit record numbers and continue to trend upward. But education experts say that despite these “bleak” realities, the power…

Districts used summer programs to address academic lags following the pandemic but anticipate curbing them as federal COVID-19 funding dries up. Some 55% of K-12 parents said their children attended…

Special education advocates are visiting lawmakers on Capitol Hill this week, urging them to dedicate more funding to student mental well-being and special education teacher shortages to improve outcomes for…

In an era when partisan echo chambers have produced polarized public discourse and a politically aligned unwillingness to entertain inconvenient facts, clear investigative journalism is among the highest forms of public…

In the books she read growing up, Nancy Jennings saw a lot of school buses cruising across the pages. She had always wanted to ride in one, but Jennings lived…