The Knox County school board will weigh this week whether to send a message to lawmakers in Nashville about the governor’s controversial school voucher expansion. Board member Jennifer Owen, who represents neighborhoods on Knoxville’s north side, is asking her peers to support her in a resolution that would tell lawmakers to “consider the effects that […]
My elementary school experience was different from the traditional one. I attended a school with outdated textbooks, leaky roofs, and aged windows in a low-income neighborhood in North Memphis. My public school teachers took the rags they were given. They made daily education miracles for my classmates and me, despite low pay and rhetoric from […]
New York City homeless and immigration advocates have called for the city to address its growing community of asylum seekers using an untested but potentially cheaper housing method that looks outside the shelter system — housing vouchers. An increase in asylum seekers in the Big Apple has resulted in an overwhelmed shelter system, with over […]