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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Thousands of Alabama students who've spent the coronavirus pandemic in virtual classrooms are returning to traditional instruction despite safety concerns and continuing school shutdowns linked to COVID-19. Schools in Jefferson County began allowing elementary students to return to class full-time on Monday, and additional systems that have offered only online classes or a mix of online and traditional learning will reopen buildings on a full-time basis through next...
Denver middle and high schools will continue with virtual learning into November, according to an internal district communication obtained by Chalkbeat. The school district had planned to reopen school buildings to middle and high school students on Oct. 21. COVID-19 cases have been rising in Denver. On Monday, as Denver Mayor Michael Hancock sounded the alarm, Superintendent Susana Cordova said the district would consult with public health officials and take a second look at plans to bring older students back to the classroom. At a school...
Enrollment in the Detroit school district is down by 3,000 students compared with this time last year, Superintendent Nikolai Vitti said during a school board meeting Tuesday. What that number means is unclear because, like last year, the district still has about another month to find these students. When data last year was official at the end of the count period, the district had 51,000 students. Count Day enrollment numbers must be audited by intermediate school districts, which provide services for schools. The numbers are then sent to the...
Dive Brief: • Public school enrollment is dropping in both large and small districts, NPR reports, with enrollment at the kindergarten level down an average of 16%. • The trend is consistent across low-income, affluent, urban and rural districts, marking a reversal of the slow, steady increase in public school enrollment over the last 15 years. • Enrollment declines are especially steeper for kindergarten and pre-K, and the trend could cost districts money, as many receive state funds...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's education superintendent said she has sent $43 million of protective equipment to more than 1,300 schools in the state — fulfilling every item in their requests to help them open for in-person classes during the COVID-19 pandemic. And Superintendent Molly Spearman promised Tuesday there is enough money left in the billions of dollars the federal government sent to South Carolina for pandemic help to pay for whatever else schools ask for as she urges every school district to get children back in...
Michigan recorded 26 new COVID-19 outbreaks in schools and universities within the last week, affecting at least 124 people, according to data from the state Department of Health and Human Services. While 20 pre-kindergarten-to-grade-12 schools made the latest list of outbreaks, most have small numbers of cumulative cases. Father Gabriel Richard High School in Ann Arbor had the most, with 12 cumulative cases impacting students. Overall, a total of 116 students and staff are affected in the latest outbreaks in pre-K to grade 12, including three...
GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A 12-year-old middle school student asked his school to train its staff in facilitating discussions about politics because he says a teacher belittled him when he expressed support for President Donald Trump in class. The family of Jackson Cody, of Gloucester, hired an attorney and wrote to administrators of O’Maley Innovation Middle School in early October asking for the teacher to apologize and for the school to train staff to respect the views of students, the Gloucester Daily Times reported. In a letter to the...
Saint Paul, MN — Today, LIUNA Minnesota and North Dakota announced it will begin a statewide mail and targeted digital advertising program to reach over two million Minnesota voters. The program is in support of 161 LIUNA-endorsed state and local pro-infrastructure candidates (listed below). The robust program begins Wednesday, with sample ballots being mailed to more than two million voters in nearly every precinct in the state, followed by infrastructure-focused mailings and digital advertising in support of endorsed candidates in 20 State...
LONGMONT, Colorado (October 14, 2020) – First Nations Development Institute (First Nations) today announced the awarding of seven grants to help Native-led organizations improve their community-based food sovereignty efforts for the benefit of Native children and families, as well as address issues of food insecurity, jobs, household budgets, cultural connections, and the sustainable use of natural resources. The grants are made possible through First Nations’ Changing Native Food Economies grant program, which is part of the...
The National Museum of the American Indian will open the new National Native American Veterans Memorial Wednesday, Nov. 11. The moment will be marked with a short virtual message to honor the service and sacrifice of Native veterans and their families. The message will be on both the museum's website and its YouTube channel. "The National Native American Veterans Memorial will serve as a reminder to the nation and the world of the service and sacrifice of Native American, Alaska Native and...
President Donald Trump is down in the polls, running out of time, and facing a resurgent coronavirus across the United States. Yet seemingly headed for defeat, he is doing nothing to change course. Proud of his status as a non-politician who won the White House in his first shot, Trump brushes off polls ahead of November 3, preferring nostalgic reminiscences about his 2016 upset. There's no question that he still has the raw energy on stage of the candidate who surprised everyone to beat...
The U.S. Department of Justice awarded a nearly $500,000 grant to combat elder abuse and financial fraud targeted at seniors in the Western Washington Tribal community Friday, Oct. 2. The grant, announced by U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington Brian Moran, is part of $9 million in funding to support these efforts throughout the United States. Attorney General William P. Barr presented the aid on the 30th anniversary of the International Day of Older Persons. Elder abuse is any intentional or negligent act by any person that...
A team of nonscientists may have inadvertently confirmed the most important finding in Great Lakes archaeology in at least a decade. The group, made up mostly of Native American tribal citizens, utilized a remote-operated underwater vehicle in the Straits of Mackinac to take a look at Enbridge's Line 5 oil and natural gas pipelines on the lake bottom. But among the things they found were stones they say appear arranged in circular and linear patterns on the lake floor. If that was done by the hands of humans, it occurred when the Straits area...