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  • School districts think outside the cafeteria to get students meals amid pandemic

    November 09, 2020 |

    KVEO-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, McAllen, Texas

    School districts in the Rio Grande area of Texas are turning to alternatives to deliver meals to students who are remote-learning. Programs like school curbside pick-up, and meals on wheels, where a bus loaded has designated stops where families can pick up meals, have emerged. One district in the area delivers up to 6,000 meals to students.

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  • Students meet in Austin churches for free, virtual learning pods during pandemic

    November 09, 2020 |

    KXAN-TV |

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    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Austin, Texas

    In Austin, some families pay upwards of $1,300 a month to place their children in learning pods, an option not all families can afford. To help working families an organization launched Community Pods, which offers the same learning pod service for free. Teachers with Community Pods help students with their virtual classes. Students also receive meals and snacks. Around 45 students are participating, but the goal is to serve 100.

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  • 2020 was the first-ever presidential election where people cast votes via smartphone

    November 09, 2020 |

    FastCompany |

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    Response Location: United States, Utah

    2020 was the first presidential election where a limited group voted using a smartphone app created by Voatz, expanding access to people with disabilities, those in Covid-19 quarantine, and people out of state due to an emergency. Advocates say it is cost-effective and secure, though many disagree. Voters are biometrically identified and matched to legal records. Ballots are cast on mobile devices and stored on the blockchain until Election Day, when they are printed and counted with other mail-in ballots. Use is expected to increase in the future and pilots are planned in Brazil and other locations.

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  • Rural Hospitals Are Dying. This One Saved Itself—And Its Community

    November 09, 2020 |

    Time Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Clinch County, Georgia

    Rural hospitals across the country often struggle to stay open in states where Medicaid has not been expanded, but a method known as "swing beds" has helped two critical-access hospitals in Georgia to avoid this fate. This method, which allows hospitals to swing beds from "only patients in need of acute care to those who no longer require the emergency department but still needed more treatment before a nursing home," allowed for the hospitals to pay off debt and expand services.

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  • A pollution solution where the rubber meets the road

    November 09, 2020 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    The Tyre Collective, a project by four recent graduate students in London, is seeking to capture vehicle tire pollution, the microplastics that go into the air from the friction of tires. They have been developing a device that attaches to the bottom of a car and uses electrostatic charges and airflow to collect up to 60 percent of tire particles as the car is driven. To reduce the amount of tire pollution, tire companies are seeking to balance safety requirements, tire durability, and making them out of more sustainable materials.

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  • Tracking incomplete grades moves students forward – with extra focus from educators

    November 09, 2020 |

    WAVY-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Norfolk, Virginia

    Norfolk Public Schools had a unique approach to addressing student performance post-pandemic—giving students an incomplete instead of failing them. The move revealed racial disparities that allowed the district to respond. “Of the 12,455 incomplete grades submitted, 71% went to Black students.” The district acted on that information and gave devices to students, limited instruction to four times a week to prevent teacher burnout, and placed a bus driver at every school to send staff to communities.

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  • How electric cooperatives are helping Texas students tackle pandemic learning

    November 09, 2020 |

    KXAN-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Moulton, Texas

    Around 20% of high school students in rural Moulton Independent School District in Texas don't have the vital internet connection they need to complete their assignments. Students at Shiner Independent School District, also a rural area school, faced similar issues. Both districts teamed up with Guadalupe Valley Electric Cooperative, a non-profit utility company, which distributed 20 unlimited data hotspots to Moulton at a $40 monthly cost, as opposed to $200+ cost. Along with individual mobile hotspots, GVEC also turned the Shiner school parking lot into a larger hotspot.

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  • School districts, local partners help feed thousands of kids despite school closures

    November 09, 2020 |

    KXAN-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Amarillo, Texas

    An estimated one-in-three students in the Texas Panhandle is experiencing food insecurity. In Amarillo, Texas, a local food bank, and two school districts are feeding students. “Between Amarillo and Canyon school districts and the Kid’s Cafe, more than 41,000 meals are served every day, and more than one million meals were served through Amarillo ISD’s drive and walk-up food distribution sites in March and April.”

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  • ‘Anti-racist coalition:' the movement to integrate public schools across the country

    November 09, 2020 |

    WFXR-TV |

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    Response Location: United States, Richmond, Virginia

    Despite segregation being deemed unconstitutional, nationally, many schools remain segregated along racial and class lines. Integrate Schools, a national grassroots movement, is focused on integrating schools.

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  • Colorado's new family leave law could transform fatherhood

    November 09, 2020 |

    Struggles from Below Magazine |

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    Response Location: Iceland

    Icelandic parents each get three months leave, paid at 80% of their salary, to be used within 18 months of a child’s birth. Parents also get an additional three months leave that they can split up as they choose. The “use it or lose it” leave is used by about 80% of fathers. Shared caregiving responsibilities deepen fathers’ bonds with their children and, along with other generous family benefits, has helped Iceland achieve the world’s smallest gender gap by enabling mothers to remain and advance in the workforce. It also shapes children’s experience of gender norms. Colorado recently passed a similar law.

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