Leaves families scrambling to find rides for their kids at the start of a new school year. Access to transportation is really access to education. Across the country we are also seeing an increase in chronic absenteeism. Geoff and with more children becoming social media influencers, one state works to ensure they are getting paid for their work. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions and friends of the newshour including leonard and norma core fine. The william and flora hewlett foundation. For more than 50 years, advancing ideas and supporting institutions to promote a better world at hewlett. Org. And with the ongoing support of these individuals and institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Geoff welcome to the newshour appeared on this labor day, President Biden has touted unions in play
Hot pursuit so, in the very near future, negotiations will begin in sochi. Putin with erdogan. This will be the first facetoface meeting between russias leaders and turkey since moscows grain deal. The last time putin s erdogans spoke offline almost a year ago , on october 13, 22, turkey was made in russia for the last time on august 5 last year, erdogan, as you know, was counting on reciprocal visits. Wanted in fact demanded that putin come to him in ankara. She even announced the agreed dates several times, but in the end she flew to the Russian Black Sea resort. The main topic of the talks is expected to be the resumption of the grain deal, participation in which russia suspended on july 17 to test the ground in front of the mardakan allterrain vehicle in moscow last week , the Turkish Foreign minister flew in yes, he held talks with our foreign minister. Lavrov , the head of the Russian Ministry of defense shoiguev and i were in the center of attention at the negotiations was just
And it is important once it had that that the government acted on it i as swiftly as possible. Of course i know thei timing is frustrating. But i want to give people a sense of the scale of what we are grappling with here. There are around 22,000 schools. In england and the important thing to know is we are expecting 95 of those schools will not be impacted by this, i around 50 schools have already been mitigated. Another 100 are in the process of being so. 0ur Expectation is in a matter of weeks the bulk of the remaining schools that will have this issue will be identified as well. Also an important context to know is that in many cases this could be limited to a single classroom i for example, so people should have a sense of scale of what might be happening as well. Earlier, a former top Civil Servant at the Department For Education accused mr sunak and the uk treasury of refusing to fund School Repairs adequately, despite being warned that lives were at risk from crumbling concrete
And a mad scramble right at the start of a new school year, to find alternatives. We have three companies coming out today that are trying to help us procure temporary classrooms. We dont know yet whether we have managed to get any, and how long they will take to be delivered. But we are obviously flat out working on it. 104 schools have so far found themselves having to close entirely or partially because of unsafe raac concrete. This morning, the Education Secretary said there could be hundreds more affected, as the government was still waiting to hear from 1,500 schools about whether they have this concrete in their buildings. There will be some surveys still to do. The vast majority of surveys we do come back without raac. But where we find it, we will treat everyone as critical, and we will either prop them up or put temporary accommodation into place. And then we will refurbish or rebuild them if needed. Labour accused the government putting childrens lives at risk, as a former C
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