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Patti Schanzlinâs first and second grade AIS students are hard at work in their ELA workshop.
The Board of Trustees of Northern Chautauqua Catholic School announces its 2021 Angel Campaign, the school’s annual year-long drive for donations that continues to grow each year, thanks to the generosity of the surrounding community.
This spring marks an important milestone for NCCS, said Principal Andrew Ludwig. “With the help of our extremely generous benefactors and through the determined efforts of our teachers, faculty, staff, parents, students and trustees, Northern Chautauqua Catholic School has been in session for every day, face-to-face instruction, for a school filled with children since Sept. 8, 2020,” said Ludwig. “In spite of pandemic restrictions, we have had a wonderful school year.”
By Mark Pratt, Associated Press
Published May 4, 2021
Sept. 24, 2013, file photo, Courtney Keating, education coordinator of The Literacy Center in Evansville, Ind., reads “If I Ran the Zoo,” By Dr. Seuss, to passersby during an event to promote literacy along the Evansville Riverfront. (Erin McCracken/Evansville Courier & Press via AP, File)
Six Dr. Seuss books including “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” and “If I Ran the Zoo” will stop being published because of racist and insensitive imagery, the business that preserves and protects the author’s legacy said Tuesday.
“These books portray people in ways that are hurtful and wrong,” Dr. Seuss Enterprises told The Associated Press in a statement that coincided with the late author and illustrator’s birthday.
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The refugee cap. On April 16, the administration announced that it would not be raising the historically low annual cap on refugee admissions imposed by Donald Trump, despite Biden having promised to do so many times during the 2020 campaign. This was a moral and political error whose egregiousness was made clear immediately when it was criticized openly by basically every other elected Democrat, including centrist-minded senior figures like Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin. Biden seems to have reasoned that raising Trump’s xenophobic refugee limit would draw attention to the administratively unrelated blame he is taking for an increase in undocumented Mexico–U.S. border crossings that began in 2020 blame that, however dubious, is understood by poll watchers as something that might weaken his standing with some swing voters. But everyone in the party