Tag: Grapples
University of Minnesota Grapples With Free Speech Regulations
Posted: May 9, 2016 at 5:21 pm / Education
(Photo: Alexius Horatius, Creative Commons) The top committee that represents faculty at the University of Minnesota has announced a unanimous decision to further consider a number of recommendations for the protection of free speech on campus. Included in the recommendations is a proposal to create a university-wide office of “free-speech advocate” that would monitor investigations into […]
Iowa’s Branstad Grapples With Education Budget, Reading Program
Posted: January 26, 2016 at 5:21 am / Education
Several members of the Iowa State Board of Education met with Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad to share their concern over the lack of funding for the Intensive Summer Literacy Program. This state-mandated help for young struggling readers is not included in the governor’s 2016-17 budget proposal, writes Erin Murphy of The Gazette. But the program, […]