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Millions of kids are missing weeks of school as attendance tanks across the US
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Millions of kids are missing weeks of school as attendance tanks across the US

  • By BIANCA VÁZQUEZ TONESS - AP Education Writer
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Nationwide, students have been absent at record rates since schools reopened after COVID-forced closures. More than a quarter of students missed at least 10% of the 2021-22 school year. Before the pandemic, only 15% of students missed that much school. All told, an estimated 6.5 million additional students were chronically absent. That's according to data compiled by Stanford University education professor Thomas Dee in partnership with The Associated Press. The analysis is based on the most recent data available, from 40 states and Washington, D.C. It provides the most comprehensive accounting of absenteeism nationwide. The absences come on top of time missed during school closures. They cost crucial time in classrooms as schools work to recover from massive learning setbacks.

Byron Williams: Florida attempts to avoid telling it like it was
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Byron Williams: Florida attempts to avoid telling it like it was

Florida’s Department of Education, under recently revised standards to its Black history curriculum, requires middle school students to learn how the enslaved developed skills for their personal “benefit.” High school students also will be taught about the 1920 Ocoee Massacre, including “violent acts committed against and by African Americans.”

Hardister's right

Our local Board of Education does not believe in representative government. It clearly intends to be a self-perpetuating gang of ultra-liberal…

ACC keeps Stanford, Cal in limbo as presidents pass on west expansion vote
Football

ACC keeps Stanford, Cal in limbo as presidents pass on west expansion vote

  • RALPH D. RUSSO Associated Press

The Atlantic Coast Conference presidents have chosen not to vote on whether to add Stanford and California to the league. That's according to two people with knowledge of the situation who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because neither the ACC nor the schools disclosed their internal discussions publicly. The ACC's inaction keeps the Northern California schools in limbo as they look for an escape from the crumbling Pac-12. The ACC has also been looking at SMU, the Dallas-based school from the American Athletic Conference, as an expansion target.

ACC leaders mull adding Cal, Stanford

ACC leaders mull adding Cal, Stanford

  • RALPH D. RUSSO
    AP College Football Writer

ACC presidents and chancellors held a conference call on Tuesday but took no action on West Coast expansion with California and Stanford, a pe…

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