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Antonio Coronel, the father of a first grader at Moya Elementary in Phoenix, said his daughter had to miss the first three months of the school year because they didn t have reliable internet access for her to attend class virtually. We tried getting internet access on our own account, but at the end we weren t able to, he said in Spanish.
Through an internet initiative by the Isaac Elementary School District and Arizona State University, his daughter has been able to successfully connect to the internet and log in to class.
Schools across the state have been trying to provide internet access to students who otherwise would not have had it since the beginning of the pandemic.
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It s more than just a walk across a stage, and yet it seems to be all about the walk across the stage.
When students and faculty talked about missing out on graduation, they circled around feelings of sadness and loss. So when Arizona State University offered its colleges an opportunity to host in-person ceremonies adhering to COVID-19 safety guidelines faculty jumped at it.
Colleges created plans for hybrid ceremonies, and for some, this was the first time faculty put the ceremony together themselves.
As strange as it is to have a graduation ceremony without the typical coliseum s worth of families and fanatics cheering students across the stage, graduates and faculty still felt emotional and grateful for a chance at sealing their accomplishments in person and giving families watching the livestream from home a reason to cheer.
“If you want something done, ask a busy person.” That advice, attributed to Benjamin Franklin, characterizes well the lived experience of ASU spring 2021 graduate Leah Elise Thompson, whose involvement beyond academics only seemed to grow her capacity for leadership and serving others.
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President Biden in his first address to Congress on Wednesday urged lawmakers to pass the House measure. “We have to come together to rebuild trust between law enforcement and the people they serve, to root out systematic racism in our criminal justice system and enact police reform in George Floyd’s name that passed the House already,” he said.
Bass is working with Senate counterparts Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) on a compromise that could get enough Republican support to pass the Senate. Scott has his own bill, which does not go quite as far as the House version. Scott’s bill focuses mostly on enhancing training and the reporting of use-of-force incidents. It would encourage departments to adopt federally recommended standards.