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Demonstrators gather outside Cup Foods to celebrate the murder conviction of former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin in the killing of George Floyd, April 20, 2021, in Minneapolis. Two years after the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation of the Minneapolis Police Department in the wake of Floyd's death, Attorney General Merrick Garland will be in Minneapolis on Friday, June 16, 2023, “on a civil rights matter.” DOJ spokeswoman Dena Iverson on Thursday, June 15, declined to say if the police department investigation will be the subject of the news conference at the federal courthouse in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

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6 key points from the scathing report on Minneapolis police after George Floyd's killing
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press
Fri,06/16/23-6:08PM , 157 Reads
The Justice Department on Friday issued a scathing assessment of Minneapolis police, alleging that racial discrimination and excessive force went unchecked before George Floyd's killing because of inadequate oversight and an un
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A student raises her hand to ask a question in her third grade classroom at Highland Elementary School in Columbus, Kan., on Monday, Oct. 17, 2022. Across the country, federal data show, the disruptions wrought by the pandemic were accompanied by widespread learning setbacks, even in states that saw students return quickly to in-person learning. Among those showing the largest learning losses are this year’s crop of third graders, who were in kindergarten when the pandemic hit, a foundational year for learning to read. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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This school reopened quickly after COVID. Kids' reading was still behind
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press
Sat,06/10/23-12:36AM , 382 Reads
COLUMBUS, Kan. (AP) — Students spread out in their rural Kansas classroom, answering questions with a partner about invaders atop elephants attempting to sack Rome more than 2,000 years ago.

“Do you want to read?” one of the third graders, Parker, asked his partner after the lesson on the Punic Wars. “Because I’m not really good.”
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In this May 8, 2023, photo, Jennifer Seeley leaves a message on a cross that has the name of security guard Christian LaCour, written on it at a makeshift memorial in Allen, Texas. Jennifer Seeley was glued to her phone, safe at home but terrified nonetheless. There was an active shooter at the Texas mall where she works as an assistant store manager. And she was searching desperately for information, praying. Was the gunman dead? Were her coworkers dead? What was happening? (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, file)

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Awash in social media, how are police learning to inform the public better after shootings?
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press
Thu,05/18/23-11:26PM , 44 Reads
Jennifer Seeley was glued to her phone, safe at home but terrified nonetheless.

There was an active shooter at the Texas mall where she works as an assistant store manager. And she was searching desperately for information, praying. Was the gunman dead? Were her coworkers dead? What was happening?
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Heather Hollingsworth helps her son Thomas, age 9, work on reading skills after school Thursday, April 20, 2023, at their home in Mission, Kan. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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The struggle to read: One third grader's winding journey
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH - Associated Press
Thu,04/20/23-11:43PM , 84 Reads
Thomas snuggles under the covers with me at bedtime, warm and wiggly.

It is our third tour through the “Harry Potter” series, and tonight is like so many others. I pause and ask him to read a few pages of the Dr. Seuss classic “Hop on Pop” before I continue recounting the adventures of Harry, Ron and Hermione.
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