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During the pandemic, Black and Latino youth noticed an increase in mental health issues among their peers. Members of the ACLU's SoCal youth branch took action, advocating for holistic mental health solutions in schools.

The number one way to protect kids and kids households and school environments and communities from covid spread. >> is there a different message, or is it the same message? we know, for example, high hesitancy in some segments of the african-american community because of historical issues. high hesitancy in maybe the wider, rural areas for political reasons. is it the same message to break through, or do you need to tailor it? >> how we approach talking to specifically black and ethnic populati...

Important that could be because the latest numbers we had yesterday were 250,000 schoolchildren already testing positive, already getting covid. to me, thats an astounding number nationally. >> andrea, absolutely. 3,000 kids, 2500 kids are getting hospitalized every week from covid. this is not where we should be as a country at this point in this pandemic. when we have all of the tools to defeat the pandemic. so what i want to hear from the president is a clear plan of how well use all of our t...

Kids, from unvaccinated parents, getting it from school environments? where is this coming from? >> you know, at this time since most of our schools have not yet started we presume that this is coming from parents and from other kids if they play together. the bottom line is we have a low vaccination rate. as long as we continue to have a low vaccination rate this is going to continue to spread. if adults get covid and the numbers are high, thats going to affect our children. our kids are now ge...

There are reports that three educators from the broward county school district have died in the past week of covid-19. we understand that they are all women, two teachers and a teaching assistant, all of them were unvaccinated. now, just this last hour on msnbc we did interview a board member, a school board member in broward county, and she talked about how these deaths, obviously very sad, but how they highlight the need for not only mask mandates but also vaccinations. take a listen. >> we ha...

She never got the vaccination herself, and ultimately it ended up fatal for her, that she passed away. we have to get vaccinated. thats the measure that we can use to protect ourselves. and in school environments, it is imperative that everyone wear a mask. our children that are 12 and under, they dont have an option for vaccinations. so the mask is the tool that we can use to help them, and we must use it. >> broward county officials voted to require masks in school this semester, defying the g...

School classrooms, cafeterias, buses, and school environments should wear a mask. we wore masks all through the the summer for our summer camps. we had masks that were mandatory. we didnt have any major outbreaks of covid-19. and were just not willing to risk the lives of our students and staff that we love so dearly. we did receive that letter and i was very surprised that the punitive threats continue to come and be directed toward our school board. were a local school board that was elected b...

Comisión de Hacienda busca beneficiar a más de 7 mil estudiantes con donación de la Comunidad Europea La ministra de Educación solicitó a la nueva Asamblea Legislativa la reformar la Ley del Presupuesto 2021 para incorporar la donación de $1,116, 119, recursos que servirán para la reparación de 30 escuelas de 12 departamentos del país. Los legisladores anteriores omitieron dicha petición. Por: Prensa Asamblea Legislativa ...

Art notes: Nonprofit crafting a future in a new location "> Lisa Brahms, of Norwich, began as executive director of CraftStudies in June after working as director of education at the Montshire Museum. CraftStudies sold its Hanover building, where the organization shared space with the Hanover League of New Hampshire Craftsmen gallery, and is in the process of moving to the former 25,000 Gifts building in White River Junction, Vt., Brahms was photographed at the new location on Thursday, July 8,...

Plus, than it should be offered to parents and children over the summer months before they return to school in september. again, this needs to be accompanied with all the information that parents need to make an informed choice, but lets be really clear, nobody is talking about forcing this on anybody. parents need to be in control, and they need to make the decision, but it has to be done that every child, if its declared safe, it needs to be offered it over the summer so that when schools retu...