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Amidst a morning of ceremonies and renditions of historical speeches aimed at honoring veterans who died during their service, it was the words of a living soldier that brought the meaning of it all back down to Earth.
Kara Frame is a video producer for NPR and pursues personal projects in her free time. She most often produces for NPR's explainer series, "Let's Talk: Big Stories, Told Simply." She's crafted stories about housing segregation in Baltimore, MD; motherhood in a refugee camp in Lesbos, Greece; and food deserts in Washington, DC. Frame enjoys a break from the news when filming the Tiny Desk Concerts.
NPR's Kara Frame traces her father's PTSD, and those of his Army comrades, back to a terrible battle in Vietnam. In a short documentary film, she also explores the impact it's had on their families.
In a federal court filing submitted on Friday, the Boston Parents Coalition for Academic Excellence is seeking an injunction to halt the plan, alleging that the committee’s new “Zip Code Quota” will limit children being accepted "from certain predominantly Asian and Caucasian zip codes." Boston Public Schools will welcome back thousands of students into the classrooms beginning on Monday. “By seeking to apportion admission seats to the exam schools according to zip codes, the School Committee’s purpose and intent is to decrease the number of children from certain racial and e...
Feb 27, 2021 BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — The Boston Public School Committee is facing a lawsuit over its newly-approved "Zip Code Quota" admissions plan for Boston's three exam schools. The lawsuit was filed Saturday in the U.S. District Court in Boston by a group called The Boston Parents Coalition for Academic Excellence. The complaint is asking for immediate injunctive relief to "protect the constitutional rights of Asian and Caucasian school children seeking admission to the district’s three exam schools: Boston Latin Academy, Boston Latin School, and the John D. O’Bryant School of Sci...