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In a small but important step toward re-creating community during the COVID-19 pandemic, Florida A&M University students are pairing as one-on-one mentors with Oak Ridge Elementary School students.  Eight FAMU students from the school's Living Learning Community in the College of Education are beginning to work with Oak Ridge students virtually in the coming weeks. The initiative has barely begun, but already administrators have high hopes of expanding to other schools in the district, FAMU's Ameenah Shakir said. Shakir is the director of the FAMU's Candidate Empowerment Center.   The p...

Rich Hein; Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Chicago Public Schools officials say they will lock out preschool teachers and staff who work with disabled children from remote work if they don’t return to schools Monday, reigniting the potential for the city’s second teachers strike in 15 months. If the mayor and school district follow through with a threat they’ve made then backed off from several times the past two weeks, a Chicago Teachers Union walkout would likely be triggered, plunging the school system into deeper turmoil during a pandemic that has upended educatio...

Bethel Baptist provides holiday meals to 400 families at food giveaway Families received everything from Turkeys to teddy bears to help them through the holiday. Lines of cars wrapped around the Church this afternoon all to get food for a holiday meal. and last updated 2020-12-18 18:27:57-05 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) — Bethel Missionary Baptist Church is giving families everything from Turkeys to teddy bears so 400 families will have a Christmas. Lines of cars wrapped around the church this afternoon all to get food for a holiday meal. Everything was first come first serve and people lin...