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Teacher Appreciation Week: Amid a tough year, these educators gave us hope with their tenacity, charm and commitment to students Erin Richards, USA TODAY Replay Video Bizarre schedules, little in-class time for millions and so many Zoom rooms. Education reporters in the USA TODAY Network had a front seat to the highs and lows of an extraordinary year of schooling. Those challenges took a toll on many: 43% of teachers who quit cited stress – both before and during COVID-19 – as the chief reason for their departure, according to a RAND Corp. survey. © Heidi Heilbrunn /...

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47:59 It was a close, divided vote, but Cincinnati Public Schools will return to in-person learning at the end of this month, following the board of education's 4-3 decision. Enquirer reporter Madeline Mitchell and WVXU reporter Cory Sharber will discuss. The superintendent of Beechwood Independent Schools, a top Northern Kentucky district, saw his salary significantly increase even as teachers watched their income freeze. Enquirer reporter Julia Fair joins us for that story. One year into the COVID-19 pandemic, local people with developmental disabilities still struggle to connect. WVXU rep...

A look back at the infamous Josh Pompey murder case It was on March 9, 1998, that former boxer Josh Pompey was convicted in a Bergen County courtroom of murdering his ex-girlfriend and her elderly aunt by stabbing them to death. Authorities said that Pompey, a one-time sparring partner of heavyweight champion Larry Holmes, went to the Hackensack home of Audrey Robinson, a woman he had dated years earlier. Pompey wanted to resume the relationship, but Robinson turned him down. Prosecutors said Pompey then raped Robinson and began hitting her. Her 74 year old aunt, Madeline Mitchell tried to i...

Cincinnati police officer Nedra Ward “I was standing on the front line, getting cursed out, people telling me, ‘Why don’t you quit your job?’ ” Even the work part of the day was like nothing she’d ever known. “I was standing on the front line, getting cursed out, people telling me, ‘Why don’t you quit your job?’” she said. The officer gets it. In fact, some of her family members were among the protesters. But the anger directed at her, as a Black woman wearing a badge, was tough.  Her career had started in the wake of the 2001 riots, after which she joined the departmen...