By Rebecca Gaunt Katie Rinderle, the Due West Elementary School teacher whose firing ignited a firestorm over books in Cobb County schools is appealing her August termination. Last March, Rinderle…
By Rebecca Gaunt The Cobb County school board voted Thursday to uphold Superintendent Chris Ragsdale’s decision to fire teacher Katie Rinderle, in spite of the opposing recommendation of a district-appointed…
By Rebecca Gaunt A tribunal of retired educators, appointed by the Cobb County School District, denied Superintendent Chris Ragsdale’s recommendation to terminate teacher Katie Rinderle for reading the book “My…
by Kelcie Moseley-Morris, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] July 21, 2023 Members of a national anti-abortion religious organization called Operation Save America…
by Alauna Safarpour, Northeastern University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] Over the July Fourth long weekend, people will pour into the small town of Gettysburg,…
by Ashley Murray, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] June 7, 2023 WASHINGTON — More than 1,200 hate and anti-government extremist groups were…
By Rebecca Gaunt The mother of a 5-year-old denied disability services by the Cobb County School District is now petitioning the Georgia Office of State Administrative Hearings for a due…
by Madi Blaire, Georgia Recorder [This article first appeared in the Georgia Recorder, republished with permission] April 10, 2023 A year after it was enacted, Georgia’s so-called book banning law…
By Rebecca Gaunt A new report shows significant increases in voucher program spending in seven states, including Georgia, which went up 883% between 2008 and 2019. Public Funds Public Schools,…
by Alexander Hinton, Rutgers University – Newark, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] On Feb. 15, 2023, a judge informed Payton Gendron – a white 19-year-old…