by Sanjay Sharma | Jun 20, 2021 | AFT
Today we celebrate Juneteenth. July Fourth is known to every American as Independence Day, but Black Americans had to wait nearly 100 years more for freedom. On June 19, 1865—2 1/2 years after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation—Union...
by Sanjay Sharma | Jun 18, 2021 | GDOE Support Staff, GDOE Teachers, Local News
The proposed school calendar will move PD days 2 and 3 to the beginning of the school year and moving the first day of school for students to Thursday, August 12, 2021. Friday, August 06, 2021, is still the first day for teachers. Calendars will be available once...
by Sanjay Sharma | Jun 18, 2021 | National News
President Biden has signed the bill into law. Juneteenth is now officially a federal holiday, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans in the United States. “I’ve only been president for several months, but I think this will go down...
by Sanjay Sharma | Jun 18, 2021 | Local News, National News
Joe Biden has signed an executive order in April of this year that will raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour from $10.95 an hour for federal contractors, providing a pay bump to several workers. Governor Lou Leon Guerrero wrote to the Biden administration for Guam’s...