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Thousands of CCSD pupils need outside facilities for online learning
As the Clark County School District prepares to enter the new school year with entirely virtual classes, the agency overseeing the regional response to the coronavirus pandemic is scrambling to locate places for tens of thousands of students to learn outside the home.
As many as 100,000 students, or roughly 28 percent of children enrolled in the fifth-largest district in the U.S., may need such accommodations to account for working parents and other scenarios that make home-based learning challenging if not impossible, according to Clark County Commission Chairwoman Marilyn Kirkpatrick.
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the disruption of the court by acts of violence against the court or destruction of the court facilities.”
The demonstration is supposed to start at 7 p.m. Saturday at the Bellagio, according to posts on social media.
Anarchist groups in Portland issued the nationwide solidarity call to back their battle with federal agents ordered into the city by President Donald Trump to protect the federal courthouse and statues amid the racial and civil unrest.
“We love that people are thinking about the ways they can support the people in this city, especially those who have been pressing hard in the streets for the past seven weeks in support of the struggle for Black lives and for freedom for all — and despite the brutally repressive tactics of police and federal forces,” the groups said in a statement on their website.
“Go as hard as you want, use every tool in the toolbox, and employ every tactic you can. … Our common struggle against fascism and against the police and federal officials defending white supremacy are intertwined. The movement is moving: solidarity is spreading and the bigger we get the faster we win.”
The Portland protests began
May 29 after George Floyd died while being detained by Minneapolis police and have intensified recently with the arrival of the armed federal agents. The agents are part of a special U.S. Department of Homeland Security unit made up of people mainly from Customs and Border Protection.
The forces wear camouflage uniforms and carry military weapons. The U.S. Marshals Service and Federal Protective Service also have been involved in protecting the courthouse in Portland.
Anarchists in Portland have firebombed the federal courthouse, defaced it with graffiti, broken windows and cameras and thrown fireworks at the building, the Department of Homeland Security has reported.
The White House said Friday that protesters also aimed lasers at the faces of federal agents and might have permanently blinded them, according to news reports.
Portland’s mayor and Oregon’s governor have accused the agents of heightening the civil unrest and demanded they leave.
The state filed a lawsuit to force the departure of the agents, alleging some protesters have been hauled away into unmarked vans in the night without probable cause. The lawsuit was rejected Friday by a federal judge.
But the Trump administration has stood its ground and is pushing to send federal agents to other major cities dealing with stepped up-violence, including Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, Oakland, California, and Philadelphia. There are no extra federal forces in Las Vegas.
The two federal courthouses in downtown Las Vegas were damaged during Black Lives Matter demonstrations nearly two months ago. One police officer also was seriously wounded, and a protester was killed by police.
Reporter Sabrina Schnur contributed to this story.