late news, fox news at night. and breaking tonight, former secretary of state henry kissinger, one of the most influential american diplomats of his era has died at the age of 100. we ll take a look back at his life, his remarkable political career and lasting legacy. that will happen in moments. meantime in israel, the pause in fighting could end in the next few minutes as negotiations come down to the wire. but today a dozen more hostages were released and, for the first time, we are hearing from them about the horrors they endured. we covered ourselves with a sheet. that s all we had. not everyone had a sheet. the boys slept under the benches, the chairs, on the ground, because we wanted them next to us. trace: and when you think about what the hostages went through and are still going through, think about what s happening in one of california s largest cities where the city council just voted not to condemn hamas. they ve not been beheading and rareness israel murde
which we left violated every good sense and good principle and good rule of the military and indeed of any sensible logistical planning. sandra: we did bring you on to talk about learning loss during this pandemic. it all goes together. we re about to hear on the jobs report. a lot of the weakness in the jobs report is being blamed on the rise of the delta variant but real quickly your thoughts on learning loss. this l.a. teachers union boss seems to thing kids are learning a lot more here but there are clear drops in learning when you look at the test scores in the state of virginia. those that are passing reading, 69%, passing math 54%, passing science 59%. that s a failing grade. no kidding. and these losses are very real and in many cases very hard to recover especially in the math area. and of course the losses are worse for the kids who need school the most.
the way. but if you re all running the operation, nobody can fire a teacher? no, ms. haygood has full authority over the the evaluation of teachers. so the b.r.i.c.k. avon academy, you just took this over. this has been a troubled school. 38% of the students in 2009 passed language arts. 14% passed math. now, compare that to 82.5% passing language arts and 71.8% statewide passing math. so you re definitely going into a situation where something has got to change in this school. that s correct. something does have to change and our motto is that if we empower the practitioners in our classroom to be the best that they can be, we will start to see a difference in the school. when teachers feel like they have ownership in the school and the mission, we will start to see a change. for example, ms. perry lewis, in just a weeks time, once she heard the mission of b.r.i.c.k., enfeudsing her into the school community she he s gone full