New Hampshire’s commissioner of education is being sued for diverting millions for a voucher program at a time when the public schools desperately need support staff.
Katie Paris founded Red Wine & Blue in 2019 to help suburban women engage in politics. By the end of the 2020 election, it had grown into ‘a pretty passionate fight against rightwing extremism.’
Some states are using the shortage as an opportunity to lower the bar for educators. But there are more sustainable, community-minded ways of addressing the problem.