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Florida womanâs pandemic journey takes her from dishwasher to political activist
Mary Daniel became an instant celebrity last year when she got hired as a dishwasher at her husbandâs care facility as a desperate way to see him in person.
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Steve Daniel, 67, who has Alzheimer s, looks at his wife Mary Daniel, 58, while they walk to his room at Rosecastle at Deerwood, an assisted living facility in Jacksonville, during her nightly visit on Thursday, May 20, 2021. [ IVY CEBALLO | Times ]
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Mary Daniel remembers well what happened on the evening of March 11, 2020. She wrapped up her visit with her husband at his Jacksonville long-term care center and went home to host her monthly book club meeting. There, the conversation soon turned to the looming coronavirus outbreak.
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Amsterdam High School graduate Omahri Sturdivant is competing Friday at the NCAA East Preliminary Championships. (Photo courtesy Jay Bendlin/UAlbany Athletics)
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All those years ago, Omahri Sturdivant joined the new indoor track and field team at Amsterdam High School, and didn’t mean for the sport to become much more than a chance to keep in shape and improve his speed ahead of a lacrosse season he intended to play the following spring.
Nearly a decade later, and now a graduate student at the University at Albany, Sturdivant is thrilled and surprised with how much more dedicated to the sport he became.
Recent comments from the Florida Department of Education commissioner are raising concerns among educators throughout the state that political agendas are seeping their way into classroom instruction and halting the education process around both historic and current events.
While speaking at an event at Hillsdale College, a private conservative school in Michigan, Richard Corcoran was asked about critical race theory a movement that examines the intersections of race, law and equity more specifically, how to keep the topic out of schools. Corcoran used the opportunity to champion the Florida Department of Education s Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking, known as the B.E.S.T. Standards.