Larry Fenn, Author at Greenfield Recorder

In this May 8, 2019, photo, third-grade student Miles Stidham uses an East Webster High School laptop to do homework in Maben, Miss. The Stidhams are unable to get internet at their home in the country, so they take advantage of the internet in the school's library. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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3 million US students don’t have home internet

by Michael Melia Associated Press, Jeff Amy Associated Press, and Larry Fenn Associated PressJune 10, 2019

HARTFORD, Conn. — With no computer or internet at home, Raegan Byrd’s homework assignments present a nightly challenge: How much can she get done using just her smartphone? On the tiny screen, she switches between web pages for research projects,…

In this Oct. 3, 2017 photo Principal Alper Akyurek talks about his charter school, Milwaukee Math and Science Academy, in Milwaukee. Charters are over-represented among schools where minorities make up the vast majority of the student body, according to an analysis of enrollment data nationwide by The Associated Press. At the Milwaukee Math and Science Academy, more than 98 percent of the 335 students are African-American and nearly all qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Less than 20 percent of students score at state proficiency levels for reading and less than 25 percent do so for math. Akyurek acknowledges that the school has significant room to improve test scores, but so too do the neighborhood schools his students would be attending otherwise. (AP Photo/Ivan Moreno)

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US charter schools put growing numbers in racial isolation

by Ivan Moreno Associated Press, Larry Fenn Associated Press, and Michael Melia Associated PressDecember 3, 2017

Tamara Bloemendaal looks at a photo of her son, Senquez Jackson, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on June 21, 2016. The 15-year old was killed earlier in the year when a gun a friend was playing with accidentally discharged. Jolted awake by her older son, she recalls helping Senquez out of the recliner and watching him collapse on the floor in a pool of blood. She rode in the ambulance with the boy she called “Chunks” as a baby. Within hours, he was dead. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

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Accidental shootings kill a child every other day

by Ryan J. Foley Associated Press, Larry Fenn Associated Press, and Nick Penzenstadler Associated PressOctober 14, 2016