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America s unequal return to classrooms
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Most American kids have returned to some form of in-person school by now but low-income school districts are paying a higher price for it.
The big picture: Preparing for testing, infrastructure improvements and distancing has cost school districts tens of millions of dollars. And poorer districts have had to freeze hiring and cut entire programs to make it work. Whenever you have an event like the pandemic, poor communities always get hit first, they always get hit the hardest, and the impact always lasts the longest,” Arne Duncan, former education secretary under Barack Obama, told Axios.
It sounds almost too cruel to be real. That the state of Florida would punish families reeling from domestic violence by whisking their children away into foster care, setting onerous
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The daily rundown Between Monday and Tuesday, the number of Florida coronavirus cases increased by 14,896 (1 percent), to 1,503,482; active hospitalizations went up by 71 (0.9 percent), to 7,720; deaths rose by 156 (nearly 0.7 percent), to 23,227.