Neighborhoods and Districts

5+ hour, 26+ min ago   (389+ words) Former Carson City Kindergarten Teacher Alyssa Herrera recently returned to Fremont Elementary to share copies of her children’s book, “One Inch at a Time.” The visit was part of Herrera’s “100 Classrooms, One Inch at a Time” campaign, which aims to…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1264+ words) RICHMOND, Va. — When Justice Pinkston came home from J.B. Fisher Elementary School with five free books, her parents had questions. Were they really free? All five of them? Could she really choose whichever books she wanted? “I was like, are…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (90+ words) cedarnews.net Westbound traffic is bumper-to-bumper on I-40 in West Memphis due to a chemical spill near Jennette Thursday night ARDOT reports that all westbound lanes are closed after a synthetic, highly corrosive liquid called phosgene oxime spilled onto the roadway…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago   (275+ words) Quaker action for a just world With support from AFSC, community members are learning how to respond when confronted by ICE. Fort Morgan, Colorado, is a small agricultural town of about 11,500 people. Many families first came as refugees resettled from…...

2+ day, 51+ min ago   (462+ words) MANITOU SPRINGS — A campaign to increase the amusement tax in Manitou Springs raises the question of who is paying their fair share of taxes. It is a ballot measure with the goal of offsetting budget shortfalls caused by a massive…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago   (207+ words) EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14/CBS4) — The El Paso Independent School District celebrated the opening of a new family resource hub that aims to connect families with basic needs and support services across the district’s Franklin Feeder Pattern. On Thursday, district leaders, staff,…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (493+ words) The Pizza Hut Foundation, in partnership with the Pizza Hut Book It! reading program, has awarded a $10,000 Slice of Literacy Grant to the Brownwood Community Library Association. The Pizza Hut Foundation has also awarded a $10,000 Slice of Literacy Grant to…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1703+ words) Some places make a 45 minute drive feel like nothing at all. Tucked into a suburb south of Cleveland sits a barbecue saloon with a wall of taps where you pour your own ounces, a game room stacked with pool tables…...

3+ day, 12+ min ago   (252+ words) Four Johannesburg teenagers are taking the city's literacy crisis into their own hands. Jenovic Lumu, Jesse Lang, Navmith Vandanapu, and Nikolas Roos founded Next Chapter Jozi, a completely student-run initiative aimed at closing the resource gap between well-funded and under-resourced…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (452+ words) Nearly half of California’s fourth-graders read below the basic level, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. At that level, a child is unlikely to figure out the meaning of a familiar word from the surrounding phrase. Children get…...