Fully Reopen HoCo Schools (Howard County) joins Coalition of Maryland Parents and Students in letter to Governor Hogan and Superintendent Salmon scotteblog.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from scotteblog.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Moberly Monitor-Index
Note: The following Capitol Report is from Missouri House District 6 Representative Ed Lewis of Moberly sharing legislative highlights from the week of Feb. 15-20. Rep. Lewis can be reached by calling 573-751-6566 or email at; Ed.Lewis@housemo.gov. - - -
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Last week the members of the Missouri House gave approval to a piece of legislation meant to help young people who are not having their educational needs met by their local school. The legislation would create Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (ESAs) to give parents the option to send their kids to schools that may provide them with a better educational experience.
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Montgomery County averaging 437 new COVID-19 cases daily in January
During pandemic, county has had 49,257 confirmed cases Bethesda Beat Staff Report |
January 7, 2021
Through the first seven days of January, Montgomery County has reported an average of 437 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 each day.
On Thursday, 393 new cases were recorded, bringing the county’s total to 49,257.
Five new confirmed deaths in the county were also reported. As of Thursday, 1,119 Montgomery County residents were confirmed to have died of COVID-19.
There have been an additional 43 “probable” deaths, meaning the coronavirus is listed as the cause of death but it was not confirmed with a laboratory test.
Closing Doors: Race and Opportunity in St. Louis Schools
Decisions about where to build or close a school are not just responses to demographic change. They are drivers of it. A school bus in suburban St. Louis County (Thomas Hawk/Flickr)
In early December, the St. Louis Superintendent of Schools announced plans to permanently close six elementary schools, one middle school, and four high schools (one of which is becoming a middle school). Of the eleven schools on the chopping block, seven are north of the notorious âDelmar Divideââa hard boundary between white and black St. Louis that has held fast since the first half of the twentieth century. African Americans make up just under half (46.4 percent) of the cityâs population (based on the latest five-year American Community Survey), but they account for 91.4 percent of the population north of Delmar. Among the proposed closures is Sumner High School, which at its founding