closures, pardon me schools going remote. and the report about how the contributed to education inequity, and you talk about the disparities and high poverty areas versus schools in wealthier school districts. on the report described this as a generational loss. how do we begin to repay the loss the streams across the country are feeling due to remote learning because the pandemic? without question. i mean, i am speaking as a father to. you are two highschoolers. and when they were forced to go remote, and even hybrid because heart is not the same as fully in person, i did see a dip. in a lot of things, academics, social and emotional well-being, and that s why we pushed from day one to get our schools open. that is why the american rescue plan was critical to get our schools open. we went from 46% of our schools open on day one of president
or refugees from ukraine continue to pour in. at the last moment, this country has stepped up and welcome displaced ukrainians with open arms. not only have they given them safe havens, but they ve offered the refugees housing, money, and medical care. for the children coming here from ukraine, poland is offering schooling. from this comes a sense of normalcy. classes in session. reporter: these are ukrainian students learning polish, a lesson you can see belies just how quickly these highschoolers have had to grow up since fleeing their home country weeks ago. it means so much
take that risk right now. we can t hear. we re not taking that risk right now. open the door, bro. yeah, brooke. he said, bro. go, go,. in that unimaginably frightening moment, one word, bro, suggested to the students the man at the door was actually a police officer. i had the students running for their lives. the oakland county sheriff has confirmed it was an actually it was a plainclothes officer. that kind of caution in those seconds may have helped save those students lives. you shouldn t have to make those decisions but that s where we are. unfortunately, nothing ended up saving the lives of four highschoolers. tate myre, hana st. juliana, madisyn baldwin, and justin shilling. 15 year old suspect of oxford
abbott vetoed a bill this session that would have required highschoolers to learn about the perils of domestic violence. it is kind of this magical thinking that is typical of his approach to governing, that he will give an answer that is really untethered to the reality of what he is doing. and we know that taxes, unfortunately, has not been making this its top priority. it has instead made its top priority, affectedly banning abortion. whether it is our backlog of untested rape kits, which even our senators, senator cornyn talked about this year, to the fact that texas has the highest number of rape cases reported in 2019, and we know many cases go unreported and we know the number has gone up in recent years, during governor abbott s tenure. so i would love to see our state do that. his actions and his priorities say otherwise.
weaponize the term, have led efforts to train activists to fight much of the critical analysis of american history, which by the, way is not critical race theory. the city of south lake, texas, 30 miles northwest of dallas, is the prime example of how our country, parents, and schools, are grappling with this very issue. the new six-part podcast from nbc news documents the issues of the school district to address this after a video went viral of highschoolers chanting the and word. two years after the video, the school ruled out a plan to include diversity and inclusion training. within days, parents, most of them, white formed a political action committee and began packing school board meetings to voice their strong opposition. and, may voters delivered a resounding victory to a slate of school board and city candidates who oppose the plan. the debate guarded national attention and brought conservative voices to the town,