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It's Thursday, December 15. Surprise your kid has three-day weekends forever. We start here.

Is the teacher shorted? Ratchet's up desperation at more school scale back to four days a week.

This is all Brought, Attracting and Recanning Staff. We'll talk to the head of a school district

in Missouri who says they had no other choice. Another American gets traded back to us by Russia,

but this handoff was done on a battlefield. These guys are from Ukrainian military intelligence,

them and their colleagues are going in now to make this walk.

ABC's Tom Sufi Burj has the exclusive on the front lines, and how much of your average landfill

is taken up by tampons. No applicator is the best cardboard applicator is better than a plastic

applicator. If you're cringed when you heard that by the way, that is part of what's becoming an

environmental problem. From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milky.

In school district after school district, you can almost hear administrators saying,

we got to do something. A lot of good teachers have left and they are leaving. The Exodus is still

happening. Since the start of the pandemic, we've seen teachers quitting at record rates,

many describe being threatened, being villainized, and the pay remains not great. In fact,

this week there's a bill in Congress that would incentivize schools to raise the minimum wage for

teachers to $60,000 a year. But say your school district can't pay more salary, say your teachers

are leaving. How do you make the gig more attractive? Well, more and more school districts are coming

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