Deputies from the Alabama county’s sheriff’s office often fasten monitors on about 25 people weekly and many of those haven’t been convicted of anything. Some say the monitors are financially and emotionally burdensome.
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Weâve lost the building : Estill County food bank displaced by flooding
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ESTILL COUNTY, Ky. (LEX 18) â Anthony Lowery said he put on the waders and went into the Godâs Outreach Food Bank on Tuesday, but didnât take any pictures. It was probably too depressing for that.
âWater is about halfway up my desk,â he said. âProbably an estimated $80,000 in food is more than likely destroyed.
Lowery said the building is likely to be a total loss as well as a result of Sundayâs storms, which ravaged portions of eastern Kentucky with crippling flood water.
Budget cuts and bad blood: What happened to a program to recruit teachers of color in Oregon
More than 80 Portland Teachers Program alumni and the former director said their program is over. But Portland State University officials said it never ended. Author: Cristin Severance (KGW) Updated: 3:21 PM PST February 10, 2021
PORTLAND, Ore. The Portland Teachers Program (PTP) was one of the longest-running programs to recruit teachers of color in Oregon.
PTP started in the 1980s after calls from the Black community to get more educators of color in Portland Public Schools classrooms.
Longtime community activist Ron Herndon remembers the fight for equality within the education system.
NBC s TODAY show is highlighting two educators after seeing KGW s year-long series, Inside Woodlawn. Author: Cristin Severance (KGW) Updated: 4:02 PM PST January 17, 2021
PORTLAND, Oregon The NBC TODAY show is highlighting two Woodlawn elementary school teachers Monday at 8 a.m.
NBC saw KGW’s year-long series, Inside Woodlawn, and wanted to highlight the educators in a story of their own. TODAY show co-anchor Craig Melvin talked to first-grade teachers Lionel Clegg and Anthony Lowery about the sheer lack of black male teachers across the country.
“There are roughly 4 million first graders in the United States of America and around 2%, have a guy that looks like me at the front of that classroom. And we know that representation matters, for a host of reasons,” said Melvin.