WALDO COUNTY — In 2021, the U.S. Surgeon General issued a national advisory describing the state of mental health challenges among youth in America as a “public health crisis.”
The recent response by the Rochester Education Association is just the latest in an ongoing controversy about the way the district is handling issues of inclusion in its schools.
Virginia has fielded various battles in recent years over parental rights and radical gender ideology in the classroom. While those supportive of the former and antipathetic to the latter appear to have gained some ground in the swing state since the time of Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s 2021 w.
The number of students who filled out the federal aid form is down nearly 30 percent. The ramifications for access and enrollment could be devastating. In a typical year at LEAD Academy High School in Nashville, a college prep–focused charter school where Kelly Pietkiewicz used to work as a counselor, about 80 percent of students fill out a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FASFA). This year, with only a few weeks until graduation, that number has dropped to 20 percent.