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Winners of the Johnson County Fiscal Court and Solid Waste Commission Art Contest were announced at Monday evening's fiscal court meeting. In the cont...

Schools in the United States are not the great equalizer they've been promoted as. In their current state, they can't solve poverty by themselves.

What Cindy Marten’s Rise Tells Us About the State of Education Politics Cindy Marten embodies a new guiding principle in national education politics: The way to a better public school system does not lie in criticizing its faults, but relentless positivity about its promise.  Illustration by Adriana Heldiz In October 2013, Cindy Marten had been superintendent for fewer than four months. She stood in Kearny High School’s auditorium and made a case for a shining new world of public education that would sweep away the past era of reforms.  “I think 20 years from now we might look back on...

'Arizona Brainfood' aims to provide nutritional meals for students to take home Arizona Brainfood is working to send students home with a backpack full of "brain food" on weekends. and last updated 2021-02-12 06:36:44-05 MESA, AZ — A non-profit started by a mom in the east Valley is making sure no child goes hungry. Ruth Collins says she started Arizona Brainfood after finding out from a teacher that some children were coming to school on Monday hungry and unable to focus because they didn't have enough to eat over the weekend. She got together some friends, a lot of them moms like her,...

Government workers across Onondaga County enlist in a citizen army to hunt Covid-19 Updated Dec 16, 2020; Facebook Share She holds a swab in her hand as she waits. People begin to trickle into the courtroom at the Lysander Town Hall. Have you done this before, she asks. I’ll swirl five times in the right nostril and then five times in the left. That’s it. All done. No news is good news. She gives this speech more than 100 times this day, while swabbing hundreds of nostrils for rapid Covid-19 tests. Leatherland is not a nurse. In normal times, she answers the phones for Onondaga County E...