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
A local radio station he was not invited. bill: ridiculous. jeff paul. thank you. see how it goes in l.a. good luck with all that. now this. [applause] gillian: the scene out of the queen s gamut movie that inspired a lot of women to take up chess. the world s top chess federation is taking a step meant to protect women who play the game. they say they are banning transgender women from competing in women s events period until officials can conduct further studies about the effects gender has on the game. let s bring in fox news contributor tyrus. this is not, interestingly, a hypothetical question for the chess federation. they say they are getting more and more requests from trans players to join in women s games. i think we re seeing the growing trend where there is so