education

Interview With CUES Fund Communications and Marketing Director Rachel Carver

Matthew Wurstner is back on the show to give an overview of the student loan program, the attempted relief by the Biden administration, and the likely outcome in legal challenges seeking to stop forgiveness of $10,000 per borrower.

Many prominent elected officials in Nebraska are calling for defunding public education in favor of vouchers for charter schools. Today Rachel Gibson and Sarah Smolen of the League of Women Voters of Nebraska discuss the education climate and their work on the Education Policy Action Team, which has just launched Schools 101: an awareness initiative for parents, neighbors, community groups, advocacy groups and anyone impacted by public education in the state. It aims to answer questions like, how schools work in Nebraska, who attends our schools, who teaches at our schools, who makes decisions about our schools, and who funds our schools and how.

Interview with RESPECT Executive Director Patricia Newman

More than a thousand Nebraska teachers are planning to leave the profession after this school year. The Nebraska State Education Association says that's…

Matthew Wurstner, attorney and history buff, returns to the show to talk about the history of legal challenges to school curriculum and its implications…

Aarron Schurevich tells his story about how he got wrapped into the world of competitive debate, coached debate for nearly a decade and why he can't let…

A Nebraska lawmaker is urging her colleagues to create a state commission to study how to pay for K-12 public schools, an issue that has become…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A fourth-grade teacher in southwest Omaha has been surprised with the first National University System-Sanford Teacher Award — a…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska Department of Education has hired two consultants to guide schools struggling with low test scores and performance.The…