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
dana, along with dana: president biden pushing for a pause, hamas rockets from gaza are raining down on the jewish state. trey yingst was live on the air, a rocket landing near him. a rocket just slammed into the building next to where we are at. in terms of a ceasefire, it s challenging to have a ceasefire while rockets are still raining down on israel and that s what s being called for here, and part of the reason that the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says he won t have any sort of ceasefire because the fire still continues into israel, plus you have the issue of the hostages. 241 israelis held and some are foreign nationals, but the majority of them are israelis, held inside the gaza strip. dana: the leader of hezbollah is signalling a second front could break out in the north. escalating missile strikes on israel and the chief is now threatening america. america is a fully responsible for the war prevailing in gaza against its people. israel is merely the
Banged-up quarterback Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles visit the Washington Commanders looking to improve to 7-1 this season. Hurts is expected to play through a left knee injury. The