THE STANDARD
OPINION
British High Commissioner Jane Marriot with Global Teacher Award Winner Peter Tabichi during a lesson at Keriko Secondary School in Njoro, Nakuru County on May 17, 2021. [Kipsang Joseph, Standard]
There are thousands of children and youth not attending school due to Covid-19 and related problems. School dropout has also been exacerbated by pre-Covid-19 educational inequalities.
The dire situation, aggravated by the poor economy in an already fragile education system, has generated unprecedented challenges that we must tackle together. Education is a shared responsibility, and progress can only be made through common efforts. This is essential to meeting Universal Primary Education in response to Sustainable Development Goal on education (SDG 4).
tennessee where he ll talk about education goals. deputy white house press secretary eric shultz says the proposals will be a mix of executive actions and legislative proposals. the president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new congress on policies that will make sure middle class americans are sharing in the economic recovery. republicans are also eager to get going, now that they can set the legislative agenda. if we work together, we have a great opportunity to grow our economy and put our nation on solid footing for a bright future. and that s why the house will start off with jobs bills that have bipartisan support, but were never considered by democratic run senate. reporter: and one area to keep an eye on is the veto pen. president obama has only used it twice in first six years of his presidency, but he signalled in a late interview with npr just before leaving for hawaii that he s likely to get that thing out a lot more in the coming two
reporter: they are also evaluating whether this shooting incidents had any connection to a shooting saturday night at the marine museum in quantico. police are not saying there is a link. about it is suspicious there were five bullets fired at that museum shattering windows there as well. megyn: live to a ceremony in the white house east room. the president signing the administration s executive order on the white house initiative on educational excellence for hispanics. it s designed to reach the education goals president obama set for the nation. a brand-new fallout from the overhaul of healthcare. more than 90,000 boeing aircraft workers are learning they will soon have to pay a whole lot more for their health insurance. just ahead. dino rossi and what he calls these new victims of broken
been given out to the states. so with all those billions already delivered to the states for education, it s still so bad they re looking at massive shortfalls in the next year. what does that mean for the schools and what does it mean for the country? ? it s really bad. the a.p. did a really good story. the associated press spoke with a bunch of experts because they boiled it down really well. what happens to school? more teacher layoffs, lower pay which means more unhappy teachers that are there. larger classes in general, fewer electives and fewer extracurricular activities and what happens to the country, boom, look at this. have weaker public school systems in general. you have more higher unemployment in general because we know when schools get worse it s harder for people to find jobs and you you have higher unemployment in general and it could kill the president s education goals in general, and a wider gap for those who can pay for private schools and