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Connecticut was the first state to require that districts offer such a course, by fall...

Connecticut was the first state to require that districts offer such a course, by fall...

Connecticut was the first state to require that districts offer such a course, by fall...

Lancaster Co. fund launched to pay bail for those who cant afford it Harri Leigh Replay Video UP NEXT The Central Pennsylvania Equity Project is launching a bail fund aimed at allowing more defendants to wait out their legal hearings without being held in jail. The bail fund would reduce the number of pre-trial detentions by paying bail for those who can’t afford it. The cash bail system causes inequities, said Equity Project CEO John Maina, because it takes valuable time awa...

Lancaster Co. fund launched to pay bail for those who cant afford it A Lancaster County group is working to reduce pre-trial detentions by paying bail for those who can’t afford it. Author: Harri Leigh (FOX43) Updated: 10:12 PM EDT July 18, 2021 LANCASTER, Pa. — The Central Pennsylvania Equity Project is launching a bail fund aimed at allowing more defendants to wait out their legal hearings without being held in jail. The bail fund would reduce the number of...

  The Breckenridge Social Equity Advisory Commission was recently presented with data from a survey of town employees, which highlighted areas the town can improve its internal practices. Photo by Jason Connolly / Summit Daily archives last year, and officials are diving into data collected through a survey of town employees to get a better sense of how the town could improve its internal practices. In April, Monica Williams, executive producer with The Equity Project, presented the results o...

Listen to the podcast episode here Last August, the state of California introduced a “health equity metric” in its method of evaluating progress in fighting COVID-19. Ostensibly, that meant the state would be grading counties not just on their countywide case rates, positivity rates, testing and (later) vaccine numbers, but also on all of those measures within their most disadvantaged census tracts. This week’s COVID update features two segments: In the first, we present a feature that ex...

The Pocono Chamber of Commerce’s LGBTQ+ Business Council is hosting a festival in Courthouse Square Sunday

Texas-licensed shelters for migrant kids have some of the best national standards for care. Now, Gov. Abbott is trying to close them, which would likely push more children and teens into emergency shelters, that are subject to less government oversight.

How long is a person immune after having COVID-19, after getting vaccinated, or both? And what could long-lasting immunity mean for booster shots?