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The executive director of an urban planning program at Simon Fraser University pointed out that the City of Vancouver and TransLink aren’t realizing the “valuable development airspace above transit hubs” by limiting the stations on the new Broadway Line to a single storey.
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Apparently the airspace above transit hubs isn’t subject to the same ‘vacancy tax’ that is pushing about 60 Vancouver businesses toward bankruptcy.
End-of-year field trips to the zoo, Garden of the Gods and college campuses have been called off for Atlas Preparatory School students because thieves stole catalytic converters from two activity buses last week.
Administrators at the charter school, which primarily serves low-income students in southeast Colorado Springs, also are scrambling to figure out how athletes can get to girls’ soccer games and track-and-field meets over the remaining few weeks of school.
“It’s rather unfortunate,” Brittney M. Stroh, executive director of Atlas Prep, which enrolls 1,100 kindergarten through 12th graders.
“We’re in the last four weeks of school, and we don’t have any way to transport kids to cultural and recreational field trips and sporting events.
AP: Black Parents Say Remote Learning ‘Shields Children from Racism’ in Classrooms
4 May 2021
Some black parents are expressing a preference for remote learning as a means to better “shield their children from racism in classrooms,” an Associated Press (AP) report published Tuesday stated.
One parent, Ayaana Johnson, said racism has been a significant problem in her mostly white town in Georgia, according to the report.
Johnson reportedly said some of the white children in her daughters’ school engage in racial slurs, and there have been Ku Klux Klan flyers found in mailboxes.
She reportedly added the teachers in her daughter’s school are quick to punish or reprimand black children.
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