Gillian 4 00 a. M. Thanks for having me. Im Gillian Turner and this is americas newsroom. The threat a repeating third grade now is being designed to motivate students to work harder in school as some schools are struggling to overcome major setbacks lingering from the pandemic. Bill third grade is a critical benchmark. Those who cant read are four times more likely to drop out of school. Gillian memphis, tennessee, 76 of third graders there right now not proficient in reading. Only 1 of those students were held back a year. Bill at problem chronic absenteeism. More than a quarter of students are missing at least 10 of the school year. It puts them of greater risk of dropping out. The governor from arkansas Sarah Huckabee sanders with us yesterday. We have to get back to the basics of teaching math, reading, writing and american history. We cannot perpetuate a lie to our students and push this Propaganda Leftist Agenda Teaching our kids to hate america and hate one another. Its one of
After critics said a disimportant potion gnat number of minority or disadvantaged students were receiving low schools. mississippi s retention policy is a success for the model. officials have received calls from more than two dozen other states looking for information about how they have do it there. perhaps a sign of growing national curiosity as we try to boost the test scores and recover the learning loss. bill: put a spotlight on it the stunning results. not good. thank you for that. we want to share some results of a poll we did. put it on screen here. our fox news poll what we found. a lot of numbers on the screen. focus on the middle number here. the first category reading and writing. in that category reading and writing 54% say too little. good citizenship 70% say too little. math, science, tech, 50% say too little. it comes to racism in the u.s.,
Not american citizens or don t have passports to get out. so i m wondering if this is something that the state department is looking at addressing more broadly, at changing the visa requirements or citizenship requirements or the ability to allow more people, family, to come out so american citizens don t have to make a choice of their safety and leaving parents, children behind. let me make a couple broad points. number 1, the number of individuals with whom we ve been in contact that say that they don t wish to leave because they don t wish to leave extended family behind, it s relatively small. especially when you look at the universe of american citizens that we ve repatriated or in the process of repatriating. it s a relatively small number. but number 2, when we talk about this and this isimportant to understand the context around these numbers, the people we re
0 we have a responsibility to these individuals that worked with our colleagues on the ground in kabul and we are grateful for their commitment and dedication to the united states. i can confirm that the vast majority of our locally-employed staff and their immediate family members have been evacuated or are currently on the ground of the hamed karzai airport. we re working to evacuate remaining staff and we ve been in direct contact with them. these employees have served the united states. they have not only worked for us but worked with us. they are our colleagues. as you heard us say before, our embassies around the world quite simply could not function without locally-employed staff. we will continue to do everything we can to bring them to safety. so before you came out here, your colleague at the white house punted an enormous number of questions to you. you can thank her for that later. some of which involved some of the numbers you just went through and she gave some as well.