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Virus highlighted long-standing health risks in schools Democrats, Biden seeking unprecedented infrastructure funds May 4, 2021 5:01 AM By Andrew Kreighbaum The coronavirus pandemic has put a spotlight on persistent health threats to schoolchildren and teachers posed by crumbling U.S. campuses with leaking pipes or mold-prone ventilation. Now, as more schools reopen for in-person teaching, the Biden administration is using that focus to seek billions of dollars in spending to repair and maintain K-12 schools—an area outside the traditional scope of federal infrastructure or e...

Apr 26, 2021 Denver's 16th Street Mall is set to get a major overhaul later this year after the City Council approved a nearly $150 million plan last month. Work could start as early as this fall, including one key part of project: landscaping and tree canopy design. We talk with Michael Griffith, lead architect of that part of the project for Stantec Landscaping.

Father Aubrey Wright (L) and mother Katie Wright (2L) give remarks alongside sister Diamond Wright (R) and the Rev. Al Sharpton during a funeral held for Daunte Wright at Shiloh Temple International Ministries on April 22, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Daunte Wright was shot and killed by police during a traffic stop for an active warrant in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, on April 11 which sparked days of protests. | Stephen Maturen/Getty Images Katie and Aubrey Wright struggled through pain to find words inside the Shiloh Temple in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Thursday to remember the life of the...

George Floyd Medal by Jeanne Stevens-Sollman Wins 2021 American Medal of the Year Award 2021 American Medal of the Year (AMY) award for her powerful work honoring George Floyd. Anton Rose, Elijah McClain, Breanna Taylor, and other Black people, when George Floyd’s life was snuffed out by a white police officer in May 2020, Jeanne Stevens-Sollman was overwhelmed, asking herself “Why? What can I do??” Describing her inspiration, Ms. Stevens-Sollman writes: “I am an artist, working in my studio, listening to the news of these distance killings in my country that is supposed to be the ...

WhatsApp TOM EMMER, a Republican congressman from Minnesota, declared last month, “It’s the teachers’ unions that want to keep the schools closed.” For many parents, even progressive ones, that sentiment has become commonplace: everyone wants schools to reopen, but the teachers’ unions are dragging their feet. The truth is more complicated. Not all parents are equally eager to see their children back in school full-time. The Understanding America Study, a survey conducted by the University of Southern California, found that 65% of American families wanted some form of remote learnin...