This August,one hundred sixty thousand Atlantic salmon escaped from a fish farm in Puget Sound. That event has renewed calls for regulating fish farms more intensely--or for taking the farms out of the Sound entirely. In the first share of a series for EarthFix, Eilis [eye-LEASH] O’Neill visits a fish farm in Puget Sound to memorize more about how Washington oversees these aquaculture operations -- and how that might change in the future. And everyone knows that low-income students and children of color have lower graduation rates. But here’s a complicating factor: when students from those groups miss school, and it’s more likely to set them back. That’s according to a new analysis of OPB’s course Of 2025 - a group of students from East Portland we’ve been tracking for five years. Rob Manning reports from Earl Boyles Elementary School.
Source: thetakeaway.org