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JANESVILLE After Rock County Board resolutions last year aimed at combating systemic racism, the county’s largest department on June 1 will add an equity manager to further diversity and equity work locally. Beloit native Lanatasha Bell will start working for the county’s human services department in one of two similar positions funded in the county’s 2021 budget. She is leaving her job with Rockford Public Schools to work again in Rock County, where she spent about eight years as the equity coordinator for the Beloit School District. “When I saw the position, I got very e...

SHARE Scary Mommy and RichVintage/Getty The teacher crowned as a hero at the beginning of the pandemic and the teacher criticized for standing in the way of children’s education is the same person. The teacher credited with the Herculean task of shifting an entire curriculum online and the teacher vilified today for being too lazy to return to work? Same person. Hailed as heroes early in the pandemic, teachers are facing a turning point in public opinion a year later. The criticism sounds more like a street fight than a dialogue to solve the problem of reopening schools.