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Share this:  Students participate in a global walkout for Climate Change in downtown Los Angeles, California on March 15, 2019. Young people, inspired by Greta Thunberg, are calling on politicians to act on climate change. Credit: Frederic J Brown/AFP via Getty Images The Hechinger Report is a national nonprofit newsroom that reports on one topic: education. Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get stories like this delivered directly to your inbox. America’s public schools have enormous energy, infrastructure and transportation needs, which make them an essential component of any plan ...

Leon Bennett/Getty Images; Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; Amy Sussman/KCA2021/Getty Images Yara Shahidi, Jennifer Garner, Edward James Olmos and Anthony Ramos are set to take part in the 90-minute virtual event looking at gaps in public education exacerbated by the COVID-19 epidemic: "The summit is a call to action." CAA announced on Monday that it will host a 90-minute virtual summit on March 18 focused on public education. Presented by the CAA Foundation and CAA Amplify, the agency’s diversity platform, the event will feature U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona as well as two former...

That are underperforming. >> maybe you should. >> maybe i should. yes. >> wow. joining us now is john b. king, jr. not our john king, a different one. you were the education secretary during the obama administration. what do you think of that last answer? >> it certainly was hard to watch. more concerning are the policies of this administration. their unwillingness to protect student civil rights, invest in public education, unwillingness to do what's necessary to make our schools safer from gun violence. >> what does she need to do now as the education secretary? you are clearly concerned abo...