Clinics for kids, ban on pens, changes to benefits: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports
Alabama
Montgomery: After COVID-19 disrupted two school years, lawmakers on Monday voted to delay an upcoming state requirement for third graders to pass a reading test before moving up to the fourth grade. The House of Representatives voted 68-27 for the bill by Sen. Rodger Smitherman, D-Birmingham, that would delay the promotion requirement, now set to take effect next year, by two years. The bill now goes to Gov. Kay Ivey. The high-stakes promotion requirement is set to take effect at the end of the 2021-2022 school year, but supporters argued it would be unfair to force the requirement on students who were out of the traditional classroom for long stretches during the pandemic. The bill would move the implementation to the 2023-2024 school year. “These kids have had 14 months of not normal schooling. All they are asking for is a little c
2021-05-18 22:36:11 GMT2021-05-19 06:36:11(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
WASHINGTON, May 18 (Xinhua) The United States must reorient its framing of fiscal policy to address the problem of long-standing underinvestment in public infrastructure and institutions, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Tuesday. For decades, the prevailing focus has been on the need to decrease and then limit the size of government as a share of the economy, Yellen said in prepared remarks to the Global Forum on Economic Recovery hosted by U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
This approach to U.S. fiscal policy, founded on a distrust of government motives and effectiveness, along with resistance to higher taxes, has led to insufficient public investment in infrastructure, research and development, education and childcare, she noted.
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