Ralph D. Turlington Sr. died May 12 at 100 years old. He served as the speaker of the Florida House of Representatives and as the state's commissioner of education.
N.Y.C. Will Eliminate Remote Learning for Next School Year
All students and staff members will be back in school buildings full time come September, Mayor Bill de Blasio said on Monday.
About 600,000 of the one million students in the New York City public school system chose to learn remotely this school year. Credit.Anna Watts for The New York Times
May 24, 2021Updated 2:38 p.m. ET
New York City will no longer have a remote schooling option come fall, Mayor Bill de Blasio said Monday, a major step toward fully reopening the nation’s largest school system and a crucial marker in the city’s economic recovery after more than a year of disruptions caused by the pandemic.
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Organizers from the group Talking Whiteness
, which holds conversations about Whiteness and racism
, facilitated the event, which is the first in a two-part series. Another session will take place May 20 and will be moderated by Evanston Township High School students.
Talking Whiteness member Blaire Frett graduated ETHS in 2012 and grew up in Evanston’s 6th Ward. During the 2012 referendum vote to build a school in the 5th Ward, Frett noticed the pattern of northern Evanston’s two predominately White wards voting against its construction. When the group began their work facilitating discussions on anti-racism last year, Frett said questions around the referendum votes guided their efforts.
Ralph D. Turlington, who used keen political skills to create laws that shaped his home state, died Wednesday in North Carolina at age 100.
Among legislation he wrote and pushed through that changed Florida: the Government in the Sunshine law, the state employees pension system, lowering the voting age to 18 and the state s first corporate income tax.
He represented Alachua County for 24 years in the state Legislature and along with state Sen. William Shands and state Rep. Osee Fagan secured a huge prize for their hometown: the initial funding for a medical center at the University of Florida now the statewide system known as UF Health.