minister and a wake-up call for america s schools, how far behind kids have actually fallen during this pandemic. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. it is 15 days to election day and the numbers show there has been a surge in early voting so far. already 7.3 million americans in 39 states have cast their ballot. another state, florida, is kicking off early voting as we speak. today. that state is also set for a very big debate tonight between ron desantis and his democratic challenger charlie crist. this is the first and only debate of the campaign. so let s get started in florida. cnn steve canner is in florida. what are people expecting with this big debate tonight. the takes tonight could not be higher. 1.2 million people have already voted by mail in florida. that is almost half as many as we saw four years ago for the entire election or as you said early voting starts today and this is the only debate so the states
what it is is an attendance sheet and dictionary sheet. what they do is they find the actual word, go into the dictionary and find the definition. it helps explain what the meanings are. and it highlights about attendance. i got kicked out of the secondary school and then came to here. it s better here, i think. my background was attendance. i always thought get a job, - get what you want and keep yourself to yourself and stay out of trouble. for some kids, it s a bit harder. they need more help. within the mainstream schools, the classes are too big, - so the teachers might not click on to kids needs. there has already been huge success with this new way of learning. in the first year it ran, school attendance for those on the programme increased from 22% to 73%. and for the first time, the school saw every single one of its year 11s go on to college or apprenticeships. historically, the grimsby area has had some of the highest levels of school exclusions in the country.
it s better here, i think. my background was attendance. i always thought get a job, - get what you want and keep yourself to yourself and stay out of trouble. for some kids, it s a bit harder. they need more help. within the mainstream schools, the classes are too big, - so the teachers might not click on to kids needs. there has already been huge success with this new way of learning. in the first year it ran, school attendance for those on the programme increased from 22% to 73%. and for the first time, the school saw every single one of its year 115 go on to college or apprenticeships. historically, the grimsby area has had some of the highest levels of school exclusions in the country. this academy with home office support and business sponsorship hopes to change mindsets, keeping young people off the streets and getting them back into learning. seeing this today, and on the buses, and the passions of the people involved, they have got a real chance. they have got the best peop
you cut it off and take off. i m really disappointed in the amount of bond, but i do know that there s going to be a serious battle. they are going to move to dismiss these charges and try to say this is not the right legal grounds for us to be hold. we ll see if they re successful in that. michael harriot, there are the reporting of the text messages with he and his mother after the school saw him searching on had iz phone looking at ammunition, the mother replied lol, and intimated that he should try not to get caught. what s your take on this? i think you have to, you know, look at it from the perspective of what it seems as if everyone around this kid knew what would happen except his parents did nothing to ameliorate it, right? they told his parents and then they emailed his parents, and they left they called his parents and then they brought him up to the school and said please take him home with you. it seems like at every step the people around this kid kind of
folks out there having this discussion, you know, how can we charge the parents in all of this? your thoughts. well, it s really remarkable, jim, on a couple of levels. first, you talk about all those warning signs that the people at the school saw. they didn t have access to or didn t know the one absolutely crucial piece of this puzzle, which the parents did know, and that was that they had purchased him a gun over the weekend. so you know, to then look at the texts from the mother around this incident with knowledge that she had armed him essentially over the weekend. taken him to the range and presumably practiced shooting the weapon. it s really confounding. and you know, you have a case here where the prosecution s going to have to prove essentially that this couple acted unreasonably and those are typically tough cases. it s hard, you re putting that into the hands of a jury. it s a very subjective analysis,