“It’s catastrophic,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of the Afterschool Alliance, a group that works to expand after-school services for #students. She estimated that the federal dollars for after-school & summer-school programs — about $1.3 billion annually — support 1.4 million students, mostly lower income, representing about 20% of all students in after-school programs nationally.

#law #policy #education #schools #funding#Trump

The move is likely to be challenged in #court & has already been criticized [correctly characterized] as #illegal by #Democrats & #teachers#unions, who emphasized that the money had been appropriated by #Congress & was approved by #Trump in March as part of a broader #funding bill.

“This is lawless,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers.

#law #policy #education #schools

Amid heightened concerns over child safety in Japan, the government is expanding the scope of its planned background check system designed to protect children from sexual offenders. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/01/japan/crime-legal/japan-version-dbs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #sexcrimes #teachers #schools #children #childabuse

2/. It just feels wrong for parents to receive a 400 word eulogy about their kid’s artistic talents, when it’s been pooped out by a LLm, based on 6-8 keyword prompts.

As parent I’d feel a bit cheated. TBH rather just have the 8 word prompt.

I know how super busy she is , and reports can be repetitious. But it saddens me to think we’ll end up exchanging ‘puffed out’ responses like this when art is so personal .
It doesn’t feel right.

What you you think, Mastodon?
#teachers