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Opinion/Nicolato and Pratt: Invest in out of school learning time
Cortney Nicolato and Joseph Pratt
Guest columnists
Cortney Nicolato is president and CEO of United Way of Rhode Island. Joseph Pratt is executive director/CEO of the Newport Boys & Girls Clubs.
Throughout COVID-19 our young children, families, and schools have been resilient. However, the combined impacts of stress, distance and hybrid learning have taken a toll on students, particularly our state’s most vulnerable students. As U.S. Secretary of Education John King noted recently, “the pandemic has been an equity disaster . and we re at risk of losing a generation of children if we do not make the investments and the evidence-informed choices necessary to ensure their success.”
Black Candidates In Crowded Races Test Democratsâ Racial Equality Push
Spurred by recent victories, Democrats could nominate Black candidates in key statewide contests around the country in 2022.
An unprecedented wave of Black candidates are running in statewide Democratic primaries throughout the country, providing a political test for Democratsâ party-wide commitment to racial equality heading into the 2022 midterms.
Black candidates have emerged as major contenders for the Democratic nomination in the partyâs three best opportunities to pick up Senate seats in 2022, and in four of the partyâs best chances to flip Republican-held gubernatorial mansions. As the party heads into a midterm election where history suggests they will struggle, Black candidates could end up leading the partyâs ticket in both diversifying Sun Belt states and Midwestern battlegrounds.
How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream
Illustrations by Lyndon Hayes
In the summer of 2007, Thomas Gokey had just graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he was thinking about how much his degree had cost him. His diploma was a simple piece of paper, but it came with a price tag of thousands of dollars dollars that were themselves pieces of paper, transmitted to him in the form of student loans, which he now owed to the federal government. While chewing on this thought, he had an idea for a project that would occupy him for much of the next year. He obtained a letter of permission from the Treasury Department’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing to go to a Federal Reserve bank of his choice and pick out some shredded bills from its stores of mutilated currency. One day, he walked over to the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, five blocks from the Art Institute, and asked for some money.