Community college enrollment plummeting
During the last recession, enrollment at community colleges jumped up by 33 percent. Adults flocked to the two-year institutions in hopes of attaining the skills necessary for more secure jobs after the economy stabilized. This time around, community colleges aren’t so lucky. Some experts initially thought the pandemic would lead to an increase in students pursuing their degrees at community colleges. If enrollment numbers continue to decrease, colleges like Santa Fe and the College of Central Florida in Ocala are potentially in danger of budget cuts. [Source: WUFT] It s definitely not fair : Parents, students concerned about effort to cut Bright Futures funds
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Dr. Seuss Enterprises announced Tuesday it would no longer publish six books because of racist and insensitive imagery.
The books include âAnd to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,â âIf I Ran the Zoo,â âMcElligotâs Pool,â âOn Beyond Zebra!,â âScrambled Eggs Super!,â and âThe Catâs Quizzer.â
The books have been increasingly criticized for the way they depict Blacks, Asians and other groups.
In their statement Tuesday, Dr. Seuss Enterprises said, These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong. Ceasing sales of these books is only part of our commitment and our broader plan to ensure Dr. Seuss Enterprisesâ catalog represents and supports all communities and families.
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Every few weeks students in St. Lucie County schools undergo “unit assessments” designed to monitor their progress. And for the first nine weeks of this school year they told an interesting troubling story.
“We had a pretty substantial gap in performance between students who started virtually this year” and those attending classes in brick-and-mortar classrooms, said Jonathan Prince, the district s assistant superintendent.
“And we also saw a big uptick in failure those first nine weeks among virtual students, he said.
The district’s answer was to reach out to parents to say that so long as they were comfortable with it their student would be better off returning to school. Many did; 70% of kids now attend classes in person, up from just under 50% at the beginning of the year.