By Felicia Dusha, Feature Editor Photo courtesy of unsplash.com In December 2020, Congress voted to restore Pell Grants for incarcerated students after a 26-year ban.[1] Beginning July 1, 2023, over 700,000 incarcerated adults will become Pell Grant eligible.[2] This will enable students who are enrolled in eligible prison educational programs to pursue […]
By Jacob Schramm, Feature Editor Photo courtesy of unsplash.com Celebrities, athletes, scientists, and politicians, including former President Barack Obama, have commented on the impact that teachers have made on their lives.[1] Bill Gates credited his fourth-grade English teacher with stoking his passion for learning at a pivotal time in his life, […]
By Amelia Trello, Staff Writer Photo courtesy of unsplash.com On March 14, OpenAI released its newest advancement in AI technology, GPT-4 with claims that it can beat 90 percent of human bar test takers, as well as other professional exams.[1] According to the company, “GPT-4 exhibits human-level performance on the majority […]
By Alexa Glista, Feature Editor Photo courtesy of unsplash.com Senate Bill 244, which is a part of Governor Ron DeSantis’s ‘Teachers’ Bill of Rights’ package filed by Senator Alexis Calatayud,[1] was advanced by the Florida Senate Education PreK-12 Committee on March 6, 2023.[2] The Bill was unanimously passed and will be moving to the Appropriations Committee […]
By Hannah Schaffer, Editor-in-Chief Photo courtesy of pixabay.com Book bans are sweeping the nation at school boards across the country are prohibiting books from classrooms “due to their sexually explicit or otherwise controversial content.”[1] During the 2021-2022 academic year, PEN America’s Index of School Book Bans reported 2,532 instances of […]
by Regan Jarvis, Blog Editor Photo courtesy of pexels.com In June 2022, after nearly 50 years of precedent, Roe v. Wade,[1] and Planned Parenthood v. Casey[2], were overturned in the Supreme Court’s landmark opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org.[3] Justice Alito, in the majority opinion stated, “Roe and Casey must be overruled. The Constitution makes no […]
By Jacob Schramm, Features Editor November 17, 2022, was “Red Cup Day” at Starbucks locations across the country, on which customers received a reusable red cup with their purchase.[1] At over one-hundred locations, more than a thousand employees participated in the Starbucks Workers Union’s largest single-day strike.[2] The following day, pictures of […]
By Hannah Schaffer, Editor-in-Chief In December 2019, the Juvenile Justice Task Force was established by Governor Tom Wolf and Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas G. Saylor. The Juvenile Justice Task Force was co-chaired by Senator Lisa Baker, Senator Jay Costa, Representative Tarah Toohill and Representative Mike Zabel.[1] Members of the Task […]
By Felicia Dusha, Features Editor Photo courtesy of pixabay.com To date, 375 people convicted of crimes in the United States have been exonerated by DNA testing.[1] Of the 375 people, about 30 percent confessed to crimes they did not commit.[2] Experts on false confessions have studied these cases and compiled data on […]
By Alexa Glista, Features Editor On September 9, 2021, House Bill 20 was signed into Texas law.[1] HB 20 forbids social media firms, which are defined as social media platforms that in one calendar month have more than 50 million active users in the United States, from punishing or putting restrictive measures (removing, demonetizing, […]
