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The Wall Street Journal: Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott marries Seattle school teacher

MacKenzie Scott, the philanthropist formerly married to Jeff Bezos, has married again following her 2019 divorce from the Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +0.77%  founder, according to a person familiar with the matter. Scott, one of the world’s wealthiest women, has married Dan Jewett, a science teacher at a Seattle private school, according to the …

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What to Wear to School 2020-2021

For about about 15 school years (since 2006), I’ve shared What to Wear to School posts. The posts started in response to reader questions about my kids clothes, and then they became a tradition for our family — a really great journal-of-sorts, recording the kids growth, haircuts, and their favorite …

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Film School for Olive

Back in the Before time, when Olive was spending her senior year of high school as an au pair in Montpelier, France, it was time to think about college. We know from experience, the process is overwhelming, so Ben Blair and I scheduled weekly calls with Olive, specifically to discuss …

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Back To School Fall Mantel

We still have a few weeks left in August, but there is something that makes me inspired to start my fall decor and fall planning when kids start going back to school. Even though Cope isn’t school age, that event and seeing the school busses pass our house puts me …

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The Margin: ‘It was chaos!’ Students get suspended for posting pictures of packed halls — now the high school is closing after 9 people were infected

Last week, pictures of maskless students crowding the hall of Georgia’s freshly reopened North Paulding High School went viral and raised questions all over the internet as to whether getting kids back to school while coronavirus cases are still on the rise is a good idea. These are the kinds …

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Will Your Kids Be Heading Back to School This Fall?

Here in France, my kids went back to school in May and June. They are on summer break now, but schools are currently planning to fully open in September (technically, I think the first day back is August 31st). Friends have asked what it’s like having kids back in school …

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Movement Mortgage donates $22 million for charter school expansion in Charlotte

Reading Time: 3 minutes Movement Mortgage, one of the nation’s largest retail mortgage lenders, is honored to announce a $ 22 million investment to support the expansion of charter schools in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Following a record-breaking year of business growth in 2019, Movement will significantly invest to expand access …

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