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Unsplash The North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services reported more than 400 school-age children in Mecklenburg County tested positive for COVID-19 last week. Updated 10 a.m. The state reports that just over 400 school-age children in Mecklenburg County tested positive for COVID-19 last week. But Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, which serves almost three-quarters of that population, reported only 37 student cases that week. That had school board members questioning the effectiveness...

/ About 1,000 employees of Union County Public Schools are getting vaccinated against COVID-19 Friday and Saturday, an option thats not yet available to most frontline workers in the state. The school district started working with the Union County Health Department earlier this month to schedule vaccinations for staff who are 50 and older. That’s almost 2,000 of the district’s 5,000 employees, according to UCPS spokeswoman Tahira Stalberte. In mid-January, North Carolina changed its priorit...

The COVID-19 pandemic appears to be widening achievement gaps for Portlands students of color. Data shows that in Portland Public Schools, students of color are attending school less often and failing classes at two and three times the rate of their white peers. For example, roughly 40% of Black and Latino high school students in PPS were receiving at least one non-passing grade during the first quarter of the 2020-21 school year, according to data provided by the school district. Compar...

Mecklenburg Countys most recent community spread numbers. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is scheduled to reopen all schools for in-person classes next week, for the first time since March. Tuesday night the school board will decide whether it’s safe to move ahead. Parents and teachers on both sides of the issue are impassioned; more than 30 are signed up to speak at the board meeting. And both sides have troubling data to bolster their views. In early December the CMS board voted to keep all s...

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools has books to teach children about social distancing and wearing masks. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools had 544 employees and 319 students test positive for COVID-19 first semester, based on the latest report presented Tuesday. CMS started reporting student and staff cases in early October as part of a metrics report designed to show whether its safe for students to attend in-person classes. Students began their second semester in all-remote mode Tuesday. The latest r...

Deal mall of america, of course, the biggest mall in the country had a black santa for an entire santa. actually somebody who flew in from houston and they had to get a black santa all the way from texas for minnesota. >> sure. >> there are studies that show how, when children see these positive role models of themselves and their race it leads to better school performance, less negative behavior. how does that fechter into the creation of your app? >> when i started the app it was a passion pro...

For grabs and no one is being excluded but they know if they say these buzz words that everyone is going to listen and its okay. rachel: kimberly, baltimore has a very high suicide -- homicide rate. they also have very low school performance. very low high school graduation rates. and right now they are concentrating on plastic bags? >> yeah. this is so embarrassing because we do. we are fifth year in a row hitting over 300 homicides and we are up 120 shootings. we are at 724 shootings this year...

Investigating trump? this doesnt have anything to do with trump. that was the george papadopoulos investigation or it was the carter page investigation. i dont know where you guys get off trump. what are you talking about trump? so, that seems to be what the picture is going to be. we will have to see what horowitz actually has to say for himself. ed: seems unbelievable as you suggest. they werent looking at candidate donald trump. what do you mean? werent doing that meanwhile surveilling campai...

And hispanic graduates of public schools in boston, for every 100 black men who had a college degree, there were 230 black women who got one. for every 100 hispanic men who got a college degree, there were 211 hispanic women who got one. the 70% of all masters degrees awarded to black students nationally went to black women, just 30% went to black men. the reasons the obama administration never explained, though school performance of black and hispanic girls was deemed a higher priority than boy...

Caitlin, paul, good to see you. president trump upping the pressure on the republican candidate for tomorrows special election in pennsylvania. why the president says the world is watching the state of pennsylvania. plus, education secretary betsy devos facing new criticism after failing to answer basic questions on school performance in an interview with "60 minutes." now were told white house officials watched the interview in dismay. stay with us. its 6 am. 40 million americans are waking u...