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New York City Mayor Eric Adams, in his appointment of acting police chief Edward Caban as the city’s first Hispanic police commissioner. Caban will step in following Keechant Sewell’s surprise resignation after 18 months on the job; Sewell, the first woman to lead the department, gave no reason for her resignation. (Reuters — July 17, 2023)

Baltimore City Public Schools will roll out a new technology tool to help parents keep track of student progress.

National data from the 2022-2023 school year show serious and ongoing lags in student achievement in reading and math, indicating that academic recovery from COVID’s disruptions has stalled, according to

The media may occasionally observe the massive learning loss caused by shuttered schools during the COVID pandemic -- an unnecessary and harmful measure encouraged by left-wing teachers unions, which protested reopening schools, sometimes with disgusting anti-back-to-school protests, even after it was obvious that children were the group least affected by COVID and could safely return to school.

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, regarding the relocation of residents living near a contaminated Union Pacific railyard in Northeast Houston. The site has significantly higher than normal cancer rates for both adults and children. Turner says the city is still working out the details but that the process is estimated to cost at least $24 million and the removal will address 110 lots centered around the cancer cluster. (Houston Public Media — July 13, 2023)

The media may occasionally observe the massive learning loss caused by shuttered schools during the COVID pandemic -- an unnecessary and harmful measure encouraged by left-wing teachers unions, which protested reopening schools, sometimes with disgusting anti-back-to-school protests, even after it was obvious that children were the group least affected by COVID and could safely return to school.

Karyn Lewis, director of the Center for School and Student Progress at NWEA, regarding the findings of a new study that highlights how students across the U.S. are falling behind academically even further last year despite extensive efforts to catch students up to pre-pandemic levels. The report found that students are making gains at rates below pre-pandemic levels, which is further widening achievement gaps. The average student will need the equivalent of 4.1 additional months of schooling to ...

By The Associated Press Students across the U.S. fell further behind academically last school year despite extensive efforts to help them recover from pandemic

Students across the U.S. fell further behind academically last school year despite extensive efforts to help them recover from pandemic learning setbacks, according to an analysis of test scores released Tuesday.

A new analysis shows students across the U.S. fell further behind academically last school year despite extensive efforts to help them recover from learning setbacks tied to the COVID-19 pandemic.