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MIAMI (AP) - Florida officials are threatening to withhold funds equal to the salaries of school board members if school districts in two counties don't immediately do away with strict mask mandates as the state continues to battle through high hospitalization rates. School boards in Broward and Alachua counties received a warning Friday from the State Board of Education giving them 48 hours to walk back their decisions to require masks for all students, only exempting those with a doctor's...
Public schools who want to institute mask mandate rules can't be denied federal funds, even if their state governments try to pressure them out of mask mandates, Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said. The Florida state government threatened to withhold funds for schools in Broward and Alachua counties if they imposed mandatory mask rules. But the Biden administration has proposed using federal funds to make up the difference, with Cardona specifying Sunday that the schools "do not have to get...
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - A Montana school district is dangling $4,000 bonuses and inviting people to test drive big yellow school buses in hopes of enticing them to take a job that schools are struggling to fill as kids return to in-person classes. A Delaware school district offered to pay parents $700 to take care of their own transportation, and a Pittsburgh district delayed the start of classes and said hundreds more children would have to walk to school. Schools across the U.S. are offering...
Rhashonna Cosby's two children fared very differently during their months of remote learning. Her son thrived working independently, going on to graduate from high school in the spring of 2020. Her 17-year-old daughter, meanwhile, struggled academically without face-to-face instruction, before transferring this past spring to a school where she could go on-site a few days each week. "She definitely needs in-person," Cosby, of Linden, New Jersey, told ABC News. "That's ideal for her because she doesn't get distracted. She can focus." As...
More than 1,000 students and staff in a Texas school district are currently isolating after either testing positive for COVID or being exposed to a faculty member or child who has amid the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant in the state. The Fort Worth Independent School District (ISD) in Texas told Fox 4 on Friday that 908 students in the area are currently in quarantine, while 185 staff members were also being forced to isolate. Despite the high number of children quarantining in the state after just the first week of students...
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(St. Paul, MN) -- MN350 Action continued its campaign to spotlight the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce’s atrocious record on climate policy with the publication Friday of an op/ed in the Minnesota Reformer. The piece portrayed the Chamber as a massively funded extremist group that is nonetheless influential in Minnesota because for years it has been one of the top spenders on lobbying in the state. From the Reformer op/ed: In light of all that scientists have repeatedly demonstrated about the impacts of climate change, by opposing nearly every p...
