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
Online what ron desantis s strategy is. the net sum for next wednesday defend donald trump and hammer vivek ramaswamy. you both saw it. doug, you start. what did you think about what you saw in that memo if they believe the memo to be true? yeah. that is the real point. my first thought was this must be or should be a head fake or pump fake. if this is the plan moving forward i think it symbolizes why desantis has been stuck so far. i m a fan of star wars. luke skywalker had to confront darth vader. i think it is smart for trump not to be there. he is the frontrunner. the desantis campaign said he was the frontrunner a few weeks ago. you have to catch him. no time to worry about moving into third or fourth place. this isn t reshuffling the chairs on the titanic.