Bill and Melinda Gates: five initiatives championed by their foundation
Despite announcing their divorce, the couple have said they will remain dedicated to continuing to support causes they believe in through their foundation
In this Jan. 9, 1994, file photo, computer mogul Bill Gates III and bride Melinda French greet guests in a reception line at a private estate in Seattle. The couple was married in Hawaii the week prior. AP Photo
Bill Gates Chairman and CEO of Microsoft and his wife Melinda listens to Josh Stack, 15, explaining the Demopolis, Alabama web site on a computer at the Demopolis Public library, February 24, 1998. Reuters.
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is a freelance writer with a focus on military family advocacy, a Navy spouse of 15 years and mother of three. She is the chief operating officer for Partners in PROMISE, a Secure Families Initiative volunteer and serves on the National Military Spouse Network s Day of Advocacy steering committee.
The Biden administration recently released its fiscal 2022 Discretionary Spending Request, which asks for increased special education funding. But to understand why special education needs this jump-start, we must look at the history of military special education.
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How many students missed school during the pandemic? Alabama doesn’t know.
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This Perry County school bus, wired as a mobile internet hotspot, is parked in Newbern, Ala., every weekday to get students connected to the internet to complete their schoolwork.
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More and more students in Alabama are back in classrooms, but questions of how to keep track of students who miss in-person or remote school during the pandemic remain.
Alabama does not have a statewide estimate of absenteeism or how many students have silently left classrooms at some point during the school year during the pandemic. An estimate that 9,800 fewer students enrolled in public school this fall does not capture the scale of a potential dropout, truancy or absentee problem or lack thereof.