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AUSTIN, Texas – Teachers in Central Texas drove around the State Capitol in Austin Monday in a car caravan protest to advocate for state leaders to cancel STAAR testing and increase public education funding.
Public school funding from the state is largely based on enrollment and attendance, which has dramatically fallen due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Texas Education Agency has extended the hold harmless provision through the end of the spring semester, so those drops in enrollment numbers won’t impact school funding for this school year. However, teachers say that’s not enough, especially when there’s still so much uncertainty about what the fall semester will look like, and whether enrollment numbers will go back up by then.
BPS Parents Frustrated After Cybersecurity Attack By Brandon Lewis Buffalo
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BUFFALO, N.Y. As the investigation continues into last Friday s cybersecurity attack, parents of students in Buffalo Public Schools are left wondering how this happened.
What You Need To Know
BPS experienced a cybersecurity attack Friday
It canceled in-person and remote instruction on Monday
Parents are trying to figure out how this happened
Those in the data security space always say to any organization, ‘it s not if it will be breached or compromised, the question is when,’ said Anna Mercado Clark, who leads Phillips Lytle’s Data Security & Privacy Practice team.
PUBLISHED 3:17 PM ET Mar. 14, 2021 PUBLISHED 3:17 PM EDT Mar. 14, 2021
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TITUSVILLE, Fla. Bob Graveline loves telling stories of his Cold War history so we can learn from our history.
What You Need To Know
Bob Graveline worked on the Snark missile program in 1950s
The missile was designed to strike Russia with a 6,000-mile range
One of the few remaining Snark missiles is on display at Air Force Space & Missile Museum
The 94-year-old Titusville man s career predates the dawn of the space program, and his work was key in the U.S. s showdown with Russia during the Cold War.
Now, Graveline is sharing his story at the Air Force Space & Missile Museum in Cape Canaveral, which is growing in popularity.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. The coronavirus pandemic has challenged colleges big and small across the country. Many students haven’t been on campus in a year, schools have scrambled to move classes online, and revenue from things like conferences dried up overnight.
In a recent newspaper op-ed, Guilford College interim President Jim Hood put it this way: “To borrow and bend the opening sentence of Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: Happy colleges are all alike, unhappy colleges are unhappy in their own ways.”
Along with the challenges of moving students to online classes and dealing with coronavirus cases in students who stayed on campus, this small Quaker school near Greensboro is facing some big financial struggles.
Polk Schools Holding COVID Vaccination Event for Employees This Weekend PUBLISHED 11:31 AM ET Mar. 13, 2021 PUBLISHED 11:31 AM EST Mar. 13, 2021
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POLK COUNTY, Fla. More than 1,000 Polk County school employees received COVID-19 vaccinations Saturday, and hundreds more will get them Sunday at Lake Region High School.
What You Need To Know
Some Polk County school employees can get COVID vaccinations this weekend
The event is being held at Lake Region High School
Only employees 50 and older are eligible for these vaccinations
They can choose between the Moderna and J&J vaccines, as supplies permit
The vaccinations, the first vaccine clinics that Polk County Public Schools are holding, are for employees ages 50 and up.