The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning recession" that began years before COVID-19's arrival.
“I didn't get into politics to stand on the sidelines,” she said on social media Friday. “I am ready to build an Ontario that works for everyone.” Fairclough says she would focus on affordability, improving health care and education. She began her career as a radiation therapist and later took on a leadership role at Toronto's Centre for Addiction and Mental Health before becoming president of St. Mary's General Hospital in Kitchener, Ont.
The most common theme in the banned non-fiction books was activism and social movements. These titles help students learn about their rights and the stories of those who confronted injustice and participated in social movements to change the world around them.
"Teacher candidates are professionals, are well trained, but these tests show that it's not a reflection of their ability to teach. It's certainly a reflection of some of the barriers that are being put in place."
Moms for Liberty quickly gained notoriety by aligning their group with the presidential ambitions of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and opposing the 'woke indoctrination' of educational policies.
The decision in Littlejohn v. School Board of Leon County came just one week after the justices also declined to hear a similar Massachusetts case involving parents who objected to a school honoring their child's request to use a different name and pronouns without immediately informing them.
The original agreement pledged to help protect trans students by setting a federal obligation for the schools to run measures like faculty training on using trans students' preferred names and letting trans students use bathrooms and other facilities that align with their gender identity.
