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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
Students kept out of schools in Greece by parents who refuse to abide by COVID-19 health measures could find themselves held back a year and have to repeat the grade.
A reported 35 of them in the central city of Larissa face those consequences because of their anti-vaxxer parents who won’t provide school authorities with required negative tests either, said Kathimerini.
That has led to the students being barred from going into the schools and officials warning it means they could be held back, school administrators said to have contacted the parents to inform them it would happen if the students go past a permissible number of absences.
There are approximately 10 high school and middle school students, with the remaining 25 being in elementary school, the paper said, but no word on whether the parents would comply.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ROME (AP) — Canadian and Italian dignitaries on Thursday marked the successful recovery of a photo portrait of Winston Churchill known as “The Roaring Lion," stolen in Canada and recovered in Italy after a two-year search by police.
ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's State Election Board on Friday voted to approve a new rule that requires poll workers to count the number of paper ballots by hand after voting is completed.
NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed the director overseeing New York City's office for asylum seekers, the latest sign of escalating federal scrutiny of Mayor Eric Adams' administration.
Garrett Crochet, Tanner Houck and Tarik Skubal made their big league debuts pitching in empty ballparks.
PALERMO, Sicily (AP) — Thousands of people turned up for the funeral of Italian World Cup hero Salvatore “Totò” Schillaci on Friday.