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Drew: Weighing Your Family’s Risk Between Virtual or In-person Class
By Samuetta Hill Drew Many school districts opted to begin the first six to nine weeks of the school year virtually for the entire district. Now time is steadily ticking for those districts to make a critical next step decision – virtual, in-person or hybrid classes. Many school districts gave
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Source: The Birmingham Times
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COVID-19 Causes More Issues for Michigan Schools | COVID-19 | The Michigan Chronicle
It’s back to the drawing board for Michigan schools. There’s no denying that COVID-19 has thrown a wrench in the plans for many school districts.  School districts in the state have spent months deciding what the school year would like for Michigan’s students and teachers. Education officials in
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The Courier is celebrating the 2020 graduates—ELGIN BAYLOR OLIVER II, Gateway High School | New Pittsburgh Courier
The New Pittsburgh Courier congratulates Class of 2020 member Elgin Baylor Oliver II, as he graduated from Gateway High School.  The post The Courier is celebrating the 2020 graduates—ELGIN BAYLOR OLIVER II, Gateway High School appeared first on New Pittsburgh Courier.
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Black To The Future: Homeless & Pregnant In Middle School, She’s Now A Valedictorian 
It’s a sad but all-too common story – a promising teenager’s life is derailed by a teen pregnancy. With the grim statistics on teen single mothers and how many of them are mired in poverty, it might be hard to see anything positive in the situation. But Chicago teenager Trameka Pope decided she
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Schools confront 'off the rails' numbers of failing grades - DefenderNetwork.com
The first report cards of the school year are arriving with many more Fs than usual in a dismal sign of the struggles students are experiencing with distance learning. School districts from coast to coast have reported the number of students failing classes has risen by as many as two or three
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Eventide memories still raw
THE NO. 43 Jamaica Omnibus Service (JOS) bus that plied the route from Red Hills Road to downtown Kingston was filled with schoolchildren and civil servants on Tuesday, May
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Alabama Principal Reimagines 'U Can't Touch This' As Plea For COVID-19 Safety
In a coronavirus-themed tribute to MC Hammer, Quentin J. Lee urges students to "Stop! Sanitize!" as they traverse their high school's hallways.
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AT&T Believe Detroit: Pushing Metro Detroit and Grand Rapids To Dream Big | AT&T Believe Detroit | The Michigan Chronicle
More than two dozen Grand Rapids and Detroit-area students will have an opportunity to participate in a new virtual technology challenge, thanks to a new partnership between ReBrand Cities and AT&T. The Dream Big Virtual Technology Challenge begins with a kickoff event featuring a panel of special
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Local company celebrates anniversary by giving back - WS Chronicle
2020 marks the 70th anniversary for Cannon Company (CC), a local accounting firm, and they had big plans to celebrate the occasion. But due to the growing pandemic of COVID-19, their plans shifted from celebration to community
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Teachers push for 2-term school calendar
BY TAWANDA TAFIRENYIKA/MIRIAM MANGWAYA TEACHERS have slammed government for compressing the school calendar by resorting to the traditional three-term system, instead of two terms, to give students more learning time after losing almost a third of the year at home due to COVID-19
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School blues
High schools across the Corporate Area that were given the green light by the Ministry of Education to resume face-to-face classes this January remained closed yesterday.Continuing with the phased reopening of schools for the new academic term, the ministry released a list of 125 schools that were
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Community Mobilizes to Halt State Bill Requiring Oakland to Close Public Schools and Sell Public Property
Local residents have joined with Assemblymember Rob Bonta to oppose a state bill that would have required the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) to permanently close schools and sell or lease public school properties in the midst of the pandemic
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OUSD Kicks Off School Year with Virtual Town Hall
As the new school year starts many students have the usual back-to-school anxiety: what to wear for the first day of school, will classes be easy or hard, will they remember their teachers’ names, and how will their relationships with friends grow and continue. With this novel distance learning
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Tablets for Hope Valley Experimental School teachers
HOPE Valley Experime ntal School on Tuesday received 34 tablet computers under the Government's 'Tablets for Teachers' programme, which aims at distributing 25,000 tablets to teachers islandwide before next month.Science, Energy and Technology Minister Fayval Williams said the distribution of
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OpEd On School Reopening
Recently, the Savannah Chatham County Public School board of education members held a workshop to hear and discuss information presented by staff regarding reopening
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From The Mouth Of Babes: How Students Feel About Returning To School During A Pandemic | Digital Daily | The Michigan Chronicle
With the end of summer looming over their heads, Michigan students have a lot of thoughts on the upcoming school year. The most overlooked issue that’s facing these scholars? No … Continued
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World Bank approves $50 million grant to improve quality of  education in Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 30 June 2020: The World Bank Board of Executive Directors yesterday approved a $50 million grant to support the Government of Sierra Leone’s flagship program for Free Quality School Education launched in 2018. According to the World Bank, the Free Education Project will
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Let’s end bullying in our schools
THE video of Waddilove High school students bullying another for not wearing a mask was heartrending. This incident shows that bullying is a major problem in our schools and that the problem is far from over. Bullying at school is a phenomenon that occurs at almost all schools in the
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Teachers' Union Seeks More Funding as Pre-Pandemic Nation’s Report Card Reveals More Student Failure - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
Results of the Nation’s Report Card, administered pre-pandemic, found disadvantaged students declined further in both reading and math.
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PGCPS to Implement Distance Learning for Half the School Year
Prince George's County Public Schools CEO Monica Goldson announced Wednesday that Maryland's second-largest school system will begin the 2020-21 school year with a distance-learning model.
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A step toward equality in schools - African American News Today - EIN News
Donation of crayons, books signals new era for school district By Mike Ramczyk Correspondent Darnisha Garbade could have very easily taken her ball and gone home. After the Burlington Area School D…
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Baker admin. draws fire over school reopening - The Bay State Banner
Teachers unions, who have been pushing for school staff to receive vaccinations before students return to schools, hit back at DESE Commissioner Jeffrey Riley and the administration of Gov. Charlie Baker, who had rebuffed the
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African American student told to ditch his cornrows by Dunedin school - African American News Today - EIN Presswire
A Dunedin high school student feels he has been “denied a piece of my culture” after being told he could no longer wear his hair in cornrows.
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GCSC officially kicks off Enrollment Campaign | The Crusader Newspaper Group
Strong, Resilient Built for Education! On Friday, June 19, which was also Juneteenth, the Gary Community School Corporation officially launched its 2020 Enrollment campaign. “Undoubtedly, COVID-19 changed the entire landscape of education almost overnight! School districts everywhere were forced
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STEM Student Becomes Published BIPOC Playwright | The Savannah Tribune
The STEM Academy @ Bartlett is pleased to announce eighth grade student Yiming Low’s monologue “My Culture” has been chosen for publication in Theatrefolk’s book to be released later this year. Recently, Theatrefolk asked for BIPOC (Black, Indigenious, and People of Color) student writers to share
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This Black Man Graduated With His Ph.D. After Being Expelled From 10 Schools
Tommie Mabry was able to beat all of the odds from his upbringing and is now celebrating earning his Ph.D. after getting expelled from 10 different schools.
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At VMI, Black cadets endure lynching threats, Klan memories and Confederacy veneration
African American students and alumni describe a hostile atmosphere at the state-supported military college, which was the last in Virginia to integrate.
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From troubled kid to Aberdeen scholar: former head boy cops 11 CSEC passes
Former head boy of Aberdeen High, Marlon Carnegie, stands as a beacon of hope for his younger siblings and schoolmates, having copped 11 subjects in the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams. Though he was a well-rounded student...
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Dorothy Godiva Price - Voice and Viewpoint
Dorothy Godiva Price, aka Dot or Tootle was born on April 28, 1956 in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She was the fifth child born to Judith Price and Luther Price, Sr. Dorothy received her formal education in the Virginia Beach City Public School System. She graduated from Bayside High School in
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Covid-19: Schools in Kenya to remain closed until 2021 | News24
Kenya has declared that its school year was considered lost because of the coronavirus pandemic, and primary and secondary pupils would return to class next January.
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