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‘They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic

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She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. “You could look up and see the sky,” she said. Mold started to grow on the walls, and then the second storm let more water in. This story also appeared in Southerly.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

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Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies By November, when a slate of Republican school board candidates who’d campaigned against DEI was elected , the changes started to come hard and fast. The new DEI committee was disbanded in early 2022, as students continued to report racial hostility.