his top military adviser says a hold on military promotions by one republican senator is having a negative impact not just on those officers but their families. air force chief of staff general charles q. brown is up for the chair chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. alabama republican senator tommy tuberville is blocking more than 250 military promotions over opposition to the pentagon s abortion policy. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin leads us off tonight with that from the pentagon. good evening, jennifer. good evening, bret. the pentagon said this months long standoff with the senator from alabama is now threatening readiness and benefiting russia and china. general c.q. brown is the president s pick to be the next chairman of the joint chiefs but his confirmation and that of 265 senior officers are being held up by one senator tommy tuberville of alabama. for the first time in 150 years, the marine corps is without a come dantd because of
game. we begin with the high-stakes summit where nato leaders are discussing a possible place for ukraine in the alliance s future. kevin corke has all the latest developments including what is upsetting ukraine s president. kevin: as you know from your time covering previous nato summit, there are lots are one-on-one breakouts of the sidelines. so this is hardly novel. but very few in recent memory will be as anticipated as the one that is set for tomorrow between president zelenskyy and our own president biden. the meeting comes against a backdrop of controversy given by the prophets recent decision to send cluster munitions to the war-torn country which a number of nato members have effectively banned because of concerns over the weapon s ability to harm civilians. the audience comes after mr. biden said ukraine was not ready for nato membership. so if you have been following the story for a while, that means reading which has finally cleared its last hurdle to receive n
result, kids were allowed to get by by doing less. that is back sliding. jonathan: they are trying to close covid learning gaps by offering free programs such as this summer camp in atlanta. it is a long process and this is the third summer of recovery. but we are starting to see that rebound. jonathan: nwea, researchers say there s no single solution and they need to adopt multilayered approaches and verify that they are actually working. they also say parental involvement is key. michael. mike: thanks a lot. let s bring in senior fellow and author of mediocrity for deangelis. welcome. matt: thank you. mike: let s start with what an author says about solutions. we encourage a layered approach. we know schools are doing the right things. summer programming.
with compounding interest. by failing to remediate and get kids caught back up in previous years we re now seeing that the toll from the pandemic is impeding kids ability and progress in the current year. although the study takes a nonpartisan tone, republicans are pointing fingers at teachers unions which helped shape pandemic policy. the two leading unions contributed more than $66 million to democratic or liberal causes in 2020. and increased democrats share of their political contributions from 97.8% that year to 99.6% in 2022, according to the independent watchdog open secrets. expectations were systemically lowered. and, as a result, kids were allowed to get bye bye doing less. that s back sliding. some districts are trying to close covid learning gaps by offering free programs, such as the summer camp in atlanta. it s a long process and this is third surgeon of recovery but we are definitely starting to see that rebound. and nwea researchers say