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PIERRE — South Dakota lawmakers advanced a bill Tuesday at the Capitol that would give utilities legal protections if a wildfire is blamed on them, in exchange for filing a wildfire mitigation plan. The Senate Commerce and Energy Committee voted 6-3 to send the bill to the full Senate. Under the bill, private utilities could […]

Community input guided several aspects of the plans, including a more visible front entrance and consolidated classrooms for younger students.

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is facing mounting criticism, including from some congressional Republicans and moderate Democrats, for her response to a second killing by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. President Donald Trump reiterated his confidence in Noem Tuesday, but several Republican senators, a group that overwhelmingly voted last year for Noem to […]

A bill that aims to revise restrictions on how Kentucky teachers communicate electronically with their students has passed out of the state Senate.  The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Lindsey Tichenor, R-Smithfield, builds on her law from last year that required public school teachers and students to electronically communicate only by traceable forms, like emails and […]

The manufacturing plant would bring nearly $80 million in investment and more than 1,400 new jobs.

In 2023, the research firm RAND received a large grant to study education savings accounts, which provide parents with stipends to support various forms of private education. Susha Roy, a researcher on the project, was eager to figure out whether these rapidly growing programs were helping students learn. Roy and colleagues began looking for places to study. Perhaps Arizona, they thought, which launched the country’s first ESA with universal eligibility in 2022. This quickly proved to be a dead end, though, because the state doesn’t require ESA students to take any sort of standardized test. Continue reading this article here.

It’s growing increasingly difficult to inform immigrants of their rights when those rights are being chipped away, advocacy and legal groups say.

North Carolina has had a net loss of 367 licensed child care programs since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. More than 12% of those losses occurred in the final quarter of 2025.  The net loss of 45 programs in three months represents the largest single-quarter drop since EdNC began tracking changes in the number of licensed child care programs statewide in June 2023.… The post North Carolina has record net loss of licensed child care programs since mid-2023 appeared first on EdNC.

Researchers examining the Houston school district takeover said FWISD doesn’t have to follow the same path. Here’s how it could differ.

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is facing mounting criticism, including from some congressional Republicans and moderate Democrats, for her response to a second killing by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. President Donald Trump reiterated his confidence in Noem Tuesday, but several Republican senators, a group that overwhelmingly voted last year for Noem to […]

Cuando bajan las temperaturas, hay una prenda que se convierte en imprescindible absoluto: el plumífero.

WASHINGTON — A growing number of U.S. House Democrats are pushing for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s impeachment after another fatal shooting of an American citizen by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis this month.   At least 162 members — more than three-fourths of all House Democrats, who total 213 — backed an impeachment resolution against Noem as […]

WASHINGTON — A growing number of U.S. House Democrats are pushing for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s impeachment after another fatal shooting of an American citizen by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis this month.   At least 162 members — more than three-fourths of all House Democrats, who total 213 — backed an impeachment resolution against Noem as […]

I sat up when Senator Tina Smith of Minnesota described a “coalition of the horrified” that formed in response to this past weekend’s appalling shooting of a protester on a Minneapolis street — the second shooting of an American citizen there by ICE “Coalition of the horrified?” I thought. “That’s a great phrase. And it... The post Minnesota, Rabbi Tarfon and the language of horror appeared first on The Forward.

After months of massive Russian strikes on power plants and distribution networks, residents of Ukrainian cities are freezing in their homes. Many have had little to no electricity or heating since the start of the year, and in some places, there’s no running water either. The hardest hit regions have been Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Zaporizhzhia, as well as Kyiv and the surrounding region. The capital’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, says around 600,000 people have left Kyiv in January alone, as temperatures plunged to -15° Celsius (5° Fahrenheit) — well below the seasonal norm. To learn how Ukrainians are surviving these extreme conditions, Meduza spoke to five residents of Kyiv and the surrounding region who chose to stay.

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is facing mounting criticism, including from some congressional Republicans and moderate Democrats, for her response to a second killing by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. President Donald Trump reiterated his confidence in Noem Tuesday, but several Republican senators, a group that overwhelmingly voted last year for Noem to […]

Sithy Yi was detained despite a pending visa application. She’s one of potentially hundreds of crime and human trafficking victims impacted by policy changes, attorneys say

North Dakota legislative leaders have voted to hire outside attorneys to represent them in a new lawsuit over a ballot measure that would change voter-approved legislative term limits. The suit, filed last week, argues that the Legislature violated the state constitution when it passed a resolution creating the ballot measure last year. The ballot measure, […]

A longstanding North Dakota lawmaker and chair of the House Appropriations Committee is not seeking reelection. Rep. Don Vigesaa, R-Cooperstown, announced his plans to retire after 23 years of service. He will continue to represent District 29 in central North Dakota until his term ends Nov. 30. “I’m 73 next month,” Vigesaa said in an […]

WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is facing mounting criticism, including from some congressional Republicans and moderate Democrats, for her response to a second killing by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis. President Donald Trump reiterated his confidence in Noem Tuesday, but several Republican senators, a group that overwhelmingly voted last year for Noem to […]