Fairfax Students Can Skip School For Protests; World's 1st Synthetic Frog

Students in cities nationwide have been skipping classes to attend protests. And for the first time, Fairfax School District announced that students will have one excused absence every year for a protest they want to attend starting January 21. Also, instead of real frogs, students at one high school in Florida dissected the world's first-ever SynDaver synthetic frog. That and more, in hour two of Here & Now's Jan. 2, 2020, full broadcast. You can find more at hereandnow.org, follow us on Twitter and join the conversation on Facebook.