An NC Senate committee on May 13 unanimously advanced a bill that which would create the state’s first systematic K-8 math intervention program, modeled on Read to Achieve.
Colorado Republican State Rep. Ron Hanks made a joke about lynching before defending a provision counting enslaved Africans as only three-fifths of a human being. Yes, seriously.
Committing the first $10 million in revenue from the city’s cannabis tax, Evanston, Illinois, is the first city in the U.S. to enact some form of general reparations.