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A student carries her plate which consists of three bean chili, rice, mandarins and cherry tomatoes and baked chips during her lunch break at a local public school, Friday, Feb. 10, 2023.

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  • Politics

There's no such thing as a free lunch. Vermont schools say there should be for kids

Vermont is inching closer to passing a bill to make school meals free for all public school students. It could be the next to join five other states to make the move after pandemic-era benefits.

March 31, 2023
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  • Ximena Bustillo
Two young German-Jewish refugees at the porthole of the liner St. Louis finally arrive at Antwerp, after being refused entry to Cuba and Miami prior to the start of World War II.

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  • Opinion

Opinion: A Holocaust remembrance — and lessons we have yet to learn

NPR's Scott Simon wonders why teaching children about the Holocaust is not mandatory in most states and the lessons they are missing.

January 28, 2023
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  • Scott Simon
In this image made from video, an empty classroom is shown at David Ellis Academy in Detroit on Feb. 8, 2021.

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  • Education

A middle school teacher faces charges from alleged drug overdose in classroom

The art teacher is being charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and endangering the welfare of children.

January 09, 2023
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By:
  • Ayana Archie
A fleet of Broward County School Buses are parked in a lot on July 21, 2020 in Pembroke Pines, Florida. Photo by Johnny Louis/Getty Images

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  • News

Federal grants will put more electric school buses on Georgia roads

A handful of school districts around the state will transition at least some of their bus fleet to electric buses, thanks to money from the federal government. 

November 23, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
Water flows in Coldwater Creek on Thursday, Dec. 9, 2021, behind a row of homes at Belcroft Drive and Old Halls Ferry Road in Missouri's St. Louis County. Environmental investigation consultants have found significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school, which sits in the flood plain of Coldwater Creek which was contaminated by nuclear waste from weapons production during WWII.

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  • National

Radioactive waste found at Missouri elementary school

There is significant radioactive contamination at an elementary school in suburban St. Louis where nuclear weapons were produced during World War II, according to a new report.

October 17, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Mercer University President William Underwood, left, with Bibb Schools Superintendent Dan Sims, center, and Clayton Schools Superintendent Morcease Beasley, right, after the announcement of the new Mercer program to lure mid-career people into teaching.

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  • Education

A new degree program aims to draw mid-career jobseekers to teaching

The federal department of education is granting $9.6 million to a partnership between five Georgia school systems and Mercer University’s Tift College of Education. The aim of the partnership is luring mid-career people to teaching.

October 05, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship
Student with mask sits at desk

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Back-to-school with the divisive concepts bill; How are our teachers doing?

Thursday on Political Rewind: A special panel unpacks S.B. 377, which bans the teaching of "divisive concepts". The bill was created to curb what conservatives called "Critical Race Theory" in classrooms. Opponents say it harms their ability to teach Georgia's painful racial history.

September 01, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Third-grade students take part in a small group reading session at Beecher Hills Elementary School on Friday, Aug. 19, 2022, in Atlanta. Mounting evidence shows that students who took part in remote learning during the coronavirus pandemic lost about half of an academic year of learning.

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  • Education

High-stakes year begins for kids still learning to read

Mounting evidence from around the country shows that students who spent more time learning remotely during the 2020-2021 school year, many of them Black and Latino, lost about half of an academic year of learning. That's twice as much as their peers who studied in person that year.

September 01, 2022
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  • Associated Press
Members of the Columbus Education Association rally earlier this summer ahead of their vote this past Sunday night to officially strike this week.

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  • Education

Why teachers from one of Ohio's largest school districts are on strike

Children in the Columbus, Ohio, school system will likely begin their first day online because 4,500 teachers are striking after negotiations over a new contract with the district went nowhere.

August 22, 2022
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  • Jaclyn Diaz
U.S. Rep. Buddy Darden joins the panel.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Former Rep. Buddy Darden on panel; Kemp ties Abrams to Biden; Back-to-school time

Monday on Political Rewind:  Former U.S. Rep. Buddy Darden joins the panel as we discuss nationwide inflation. Meanwhile, Gov. Brian Kemp attempts to tie Stacey Abrams to President Biden's economic policies. But Abrams isn't backing away from Biden, despite his low approval ratings. Plus, the State Ethics Commission investigates Abrams' 2018 campaign.

August 01, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
The Cobb County board of elections voted to ask county commissioners for funding to mail absentee applications to active voters for November.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Republicans mobilize election volunteers, teachers go back to school

Friday on Political Rewind: After claiming the 2020 election was rigged, Republicans are mobilizing election volunteers and disputing individual voter registrations statewide. Plus, teachers are better-paid this school year, but they face new restrictions on teaching race and gender.

July 29, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
A Cobb County School bus moves on street Friday, March 13, 2020, in Kennesaw, Ga. Georgia's second-largest school district on Thursday, July 14, 2022 approved a policy allowing some employees who aren't certified police officers carry guns in schools, but excluded teachers from those who can be armed.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Reps. Greene's, Loudermilk's Jan. 6 Trump pleas; Cobb controversy; teacher burnout

Friday on Political Rewind: With August around the corner, Georgians are getting ready to go back to school. Our panel breaks down bans on "divisive" concepts, clear bag policies for students' safety, and teacher shortages.
Plus, Kemp and Abrams' opposing messages on school safety.
 

July 22, 2022
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  • Donna Lowry ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
A law enforcement officer helps people cross the street at Uvalde Memorial Hospital after a shooting was reported earlier in the day at Robb Elementary School, Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas.

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  • National

Onlookers urged police to charge into Texas school

A father whose fourth-grade daughter was killed in the attack, said he raced to the school and raised the idea of charging into the school with several other bystanders.

May 26, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Bibb County middle school student Sade Veal gets her first dose of the Pfizer COVID vaccine at a back to school event sponsored by Bibb County Schools in 2021.

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  • Health Care

A Georgia bill to head off COVID vaccine 'passports' lands very wide of the mark

Although sponsors say it's aimed at preventing government overreach on COVID-19 vaccinations, a bill filed this week in the Georgia Senate would end the longstanding schedule of mandatory vaccinations for school-children.

January 26, 2022
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  • Grant Blankenship

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  • Opinion

Opinion: 5 steps we must take to vaccinate the world's vulnerable—and end the pandemic

Three doctors present their proposal to get vaccines to everyone in the world. "We already have the resources, knowledge and systems," they write. Global leaders just have to make it happen.

January 19, 2022
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  • Edward Cliff,
  • Isaac Chan,
  • and 1 more
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