Welcome to our Blog!

Hi! Welcome to our blog! This is a student run blog assignment for our Social Media for PR class. We are trying to raise awareness about these topics in school and trying to convince families to get more involved with the process of changing the public school system. We plan on talking about funding, public school lunches, learning disabilities and more! We hope you enjoy reading and please feel free to contact us and contribute to our conversation!

Healthy School Lunches for your Kiddos

Written by: Sierra S. Edited by: Ryan R. When I was in grade school, I never ate lunch. Whenever I did, it never sat right in my stomach, and I always had a hard time digesting it afterwards. I would spend a lot of my recess time afterwards sick with really bad stomach aches not […]

Mentally Present in Public Schools

Written by Liberty Vela Edited by Jose Mental Health awareness in the past few years has been on the rise, which is a good thing. According to Mental Health.gov, “One in five American adults experienced a mental health issue.” This includes children and teens. A child’s mental health is ever-changing and needs to be addressed […]

Special Needs IN Need

By Liberty , Edited by Ryan As we have talked about all the different types of funding, they are all equally important. Although special education funding is something that is rarely talked about and swept under the rug. You might be asking yourself, what makes a child ‘special ed?’ According to Kids Health, “Any kid […]

Why Funding for IDEA is Important

By Ryan One of the most important investments schools can make is investing in their special education department. There are about six hundred and five thousand special education students in Texas alone from data collected in 2021. Even though this is a fairly populated portion of public schools, special education is not funded nearly […]

Talking Point: School Board Elections.

Written by: Jose S. Edited by: Audrey S. As many of us have heard in the last weeks, elections are approaching. We may not realize it, but ballot education is there in the voting process. Often when we think about elections, we may think of issues such as social welfare, […]

Here’s The 411 on Voting

Written by: Audrey S We’re officially a week away from the 2022 US elections! You may not know it, but these elections are very important when it comes to public school reform. Along with gubernatorial and mayoral elections, there is also local legislation that impacts your local community- this includes school districts. A lot of […]

Everyone Loves Lakes

Written by Liberty V Edited By Sierra S Whether we hated or loved our school science classes, for some students STEM is becoming an interest point in many American Students. It’s now up to the higher ups on whether or not to fund the Stem programs. If you’re not quite sure what STEM fully covers […]

Don’t Cut the STEM!

Written By: Jose Sanchez Edited by: Audrey Sisk. There exist two types of students: the ones that enjoyed attending their science classes, and those that don’t. For those that do, however, recent budget cuts to some STEM programs may be a point of concern. Under the Trump administration, there were major […]

Why Fine Arts in Schools are Important

Written by Sierra S I went to a high school where they truly cared about the overall student. My high school was supporters of the Three A’s: academics, athletics, and the arts. The best high school students were the ones who were very well-rounded and participated in a number of extracurriculars outside of the classroom. […]

What the Experts Say On Art in Education

Written by Audrey S and edited by Liberty V In 2019,the Houston Education Research Consortium, along with Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research, published a study called Investigating Causal Effects of Arts Education Experiences: Experimental Evidence from Houston’s Arts Access Initiative. In this study, researchers discover that “arts-learning experiences benefit students in terms of […]

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