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Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools.Everything looked business as usual for the first day of school at Hawkins Mill Elementary, a Memphis public school tucked in a woodsy Frayser neighborhood. Students lined the halls wearing customary white and red. The garden out back sprouted almost ripe tomatoes and eggplants. Posters featuring the school mascot — a hawk, of course — decorated the walls. But the environment was new to some students, who were rezoned to Hawkins after their neighborhood school closed in the spring. Five Memphis-Shelby County schools shut down at the end of last year, sending over 1,200 students to new buildings on Monday. Hawkins Mill was the third stop on Superintendent Roderick Richmond’s first-day tour, which also included Westwood High, newly expanded to include students from the closed Chickasaw Middle, and Kirby Middle School, which returned to district control this year from the failed state-run Achievement School District. “We want to make sure those schools are off to a good start,” Richmond said Monday. MSCS leaders are facing increased scrutiny this year as the state takeover of Tennessee’s largest public school district continues to play out in federal court. If the takeover is upheld by the judge, a nine-member oversight board appointed by Tennessee Republicans would be charged with improving academic performance and district operations by seizing control of key decisions like budgeting and school closures.Superintendent Roderick Richmond toured four MSCS schools on Monday to kick off the 2026-27 academic year.Richmond plans to shutter up to 10 more schools in the next two years, citing high building repair costs and chronic underenrollment as the driving factors. MSCS enrollment declined by over 9% in the past decade, far outpacing state trends.Kirby and Hillcrest, the district’s two newest additions, have not yet reached enrollment capacity. Kirby has 346 students registered out of 425 seats, while Hillcrest has 311 students registered out of 420 seats, Stacey Davis, the district’s enrollment manager, said.But MSCS’ overall enrollment is slightly higher this year, at nearly 106,000 as of Monday morning. That’s a couple thousand more than last year’s early number of just over 103,000 but below the district’s projections for this year, Richmond said. Teacher vacancies stayed relatively steady from the beginning of last school year to this year. Richmond said Monday that around 300 teaching positions are empty, with offers out for 70 of those roles. That leaves about 230 vacancies without pending offers, compared with 226 last August. “So if we start to add and subtract, I think we’re on pace where we’d like to be,” Richmond said, despite missing his goal of having fewer than 100 vacancies by the start of this year.As it did last year, the district is filling teacher vacancies with virtual instructors hired through a $4.7 million contract with Proximity Learning. The contract, reapproved in May, paid for close to 100 virtual instructors in the 2025-26 school year, according to district documents. Bri Hatch covers Memphis-Shelby County Schools for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Reach Bri at bhatch@chalkbeat.org.

La rumba congolaise, inscrite au patrimoine culturel immatériel de l’humanité par l’Unesco en 2021, continue de faire vibrer bien au-delà des frontières de la République démocratique du Congo. Dans la diaspora en France et en Belgique, une nouvelle génération d’artistes et de créateurs fait résonner cet héritage musical pour le faire évoluer en y mêlant ses propres influences et son époque. Reportage sur ces jeunes qui font de la rumba un art en mouvement, par Tom Schneider.

El siniestro afectó a inmuebles del sector céntrico del poblado, entre ellos un reconocido almacén y restaurant. El combate de las llamas se complicó debido a la falta de agua en la localidad, los vientos y la distancia desde Calama. Este artículo Emergencia al interior de Calama: incendio en Ayquina consumió tres inmuebles y dejó una persona lesionada fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

Races in five states Tuesday have more than a dozen Native candidates running for public office The post August primaries kicking off for Native candidates appeared first on ICT.

(The Center Square) – Emma Heming Willis, wife of movie star Bruce Willis, joined lawmakers in the California Capitol on Monday to push for passage of a bill that would track cases of frontotemporal degeneration, the type of dementia her husband has. The bill Emma Heming Willis advocated for, Senate Bill 1047, authored by Sen. Roger Niello, R-Fair Oaks, would require the California Department of Public Health to collect data on FTD. The department already collects data on Huntington’s Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s and multiple sclerosis, among other illnesses. SB 1047 was placed in the Assembly’s suspense file on July 1, right before the Legislature adjourned for their one-month summer break. The Legislature reconvened on Monday and has one more month to pass bills before it adjourns for the rest of the year. At that point, any unpassed bills in the Assembly effectively die without a vote on that chamber’s floor. “If we add FTD to the neurodegenerative disease registry, we don’t just count California patients,” Emma Heming Willis said at a press conference held in the Capitol on Monday. “We build a dataset that biotech researchers here in California need to find treatments and a cure.” The bill would require data about FTD to be collected in the state’s Neurodegenerative Disease Registry Program and prolongs operation of the program to Jan. 1, 2032. The program was previously meant to sunset on Jan. 1, 2028. According to a legislative analysis of the bill, paying for the program would cost $2.7 million a year in general fund revenues. That would include paying for staff and information technology. FTD, also referred to as Pick’s Disease, is a group of brain disorders caused by degeneration or nerve cell loss in parts of the brain behind the forehead or around the ears, according to the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration. Patients with this disease experience loss of function in those parts of the brain, which can result in personality changes, apathy, unexplained struggles to make decisions, movement, speaking and understanding words. Family members of people who show those symptoms often can’t get answers from doctors when they question what illness is causing their loved ones to experience these symptoms, Meghan Buzby, director of advocacy and volunteer engagement for the Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration, said on Monday. “Unfortunately, for many California families, those are not hypothetical questions,” Buzby said at the press conference. “They’re the reality of a long, frustrating road toward a diagnosis of FTD.” Research published by Therapeutic Advances in Psychopharmacology show that therapies to treat FTD are limited, but recent advances are preliminary and there still remains no cure for the disease. Willis, who said her husband was first diagnosed with FTD in 2022, acknowledged there is no treatment that will slow down or stop her husband’s illness. However, tracking cases of FTD can help in research for a cure and could even help those diagnosed with related illnesses, she said. “Research focused on genetic FTD offers great hopes for finding treatments,” Willis said. “What we learn from one can be the key to treating another, like ALS or Alzheimer’s. But this can only happen when people with FTD are diagnosed and counted, and we know the true scale of how many people are affected.” (ALS is also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.) Willis also answered a question from The Center Square inquiring about condition of her husband, who starred in movies such as the "Die Hard" films and "The Fifth Element." “I think he’s doing as well as he can with a very unkind disease,” Willis said.

(The Center Square) - A fight over water rights is heating up in south-central Washington. The Columbia–Snake River Irrigators Association is calling on state leaders including Governor Bob Ferguson to intervene and force the Washington State Department of Ecology's Office of Columbia River to expedite a groundwater project after years of permitting stalls. The delays have postponed permanent farmworker housing projects in central Washington. Mercer Ranches, a prominent, family-owned agricultural operation spanning over 12,000 acres in the Horse Heaven Hills region, applied for water rights to use groundwater in 2020, but the application then changed to include farmworker housing. “The program that they would have received the water from requires them to show that using that water would not have lasting impacts on the Columbia River,” said Emily Tasaka, media relations for the Department of Ecology’s Office of Columbia River. “We wanted to do everything that we could to get this application to a place where it could be approved.” Darryll Olsen is board representative for the Columbia-Snake River Irrigators Association and told The Center Square the groundwater permit was fully mitigated. “It's an extremely small permit, and our technical experts have all looked at it and said there is no problem with this permit, either with an impairment or hydraulic continuity, or demand,” said Olsen. “It’s just been one delay after the next. I mean nothing can get done either on the managerial side or on the technical side.” Tasaka with OCR told The Center Square the next step is for Mercer Ranches to submit a work plan. "Once the initial aquifer testing is done, and we can show that there are no impacts, then we can issue the temporary water right permit. So right now, we have not received that work plan from Mercer, but once they submit it to us, we can approve it.” Olsen said OCR has repeatedly changed the rules and excuses for the delays. “Management at Office of Columbia River has failed. There's just no other way to put it. And the technical side that they're supposed to be managing has failed because there's no technical issue. We have provided them with the technical information to be able to make a sound decision,” Olsen said. He added that Ecology is undermining what Ferguson has said he wants done with permanent farmworker housing. “The project awaiting Ecology’s action would provide new, permanent homes that agricultural workers would own—a model of dignified, stable housing that strengthens rural communities and supports the workforce that drives Eastern Washington’s agricultural economy. Every day of delay is another day these workers go without the housing they deserve,” noted a July 30 news release from the Columbia-Snake River Irrigators Association. Olsen added that Director Larry Matson with Ecology’s OCR, who is responsible for the decision has canceled recent meetings aimed at a resolution, “including a meeting intended to finalize permit conditions.” Matson fired back via email to The Center Square. “The ball is in Dr. Olsen’s court. We are waiting for CSRIA to submit the work plan (item #6 in their preliminary permit). The work plan must be submitted and approved prior to the start of aquifer testing.” That response received a chilly reply from Olsen. “Larry apparently forgot that OCR was supposed to issue a real permit three years ago; and he canceled the recent meeting to discuss the 'work plan.' All three of CSRIA's 'licensed' PEs, hydrologist, questioned why the overreaching preliminary permit was issued, without technical review by other well-qualified experts, with far more experience that Larry's hydrologists.” “His 'go to hell' attitude reflects his management style,” wrote Olsen. “Larry is in cover his butt mode, but the fig leaf does not fit.” The Center Square reached out to the office of Governor Ferguson for comment about the permitting dispute but did not receive a response.

A Chula Vista community that sits next to a San Diego Metropolitan Transit System trolley station has been asking the agency to close their community off from the area for months, citing high crime.  Holiday Gardens, a residential community that sits adjacent to the H Street trolley station, has two open pedestrian accessways in a […]

The Ralston Public Schools Board of Education received updates on several district initiatives, highlighting significant growth in summer programming and efforts to improve communication with families and staff.…

Six ans jour pour jour. Ce mardi, le Liban commémore la terrible explosion du port de Beyrouth qui a eu lieu le 4 août 2020. La catastrophe a tué 235 personnes, fait 6 500 blessés et ravagé un tiers de la capitale libanaise. C’est l’une des plus grandes explosions non nucléaires de l’histoire. Après avoir été bloquée pendant de longues années à cause de l’hostilité de la classe politique, l’enquête du juge d’instruction Tarek Bitar est aujourd’hui terminée. Que sait-on de l’explosion du port de Beyrouth ? Quelles sont les zones d'ombre ? Quand aura lieu ce procès historique ?

Pesquisadores do Instituto de Problemas de Transporte Solomenko, da Academia de Ciências da Rússia, desenvolveram um algoritmo inovador. A ferramenta se adapta a diferentes modos operacionais de equipamentos marítimos e reduz a pegada de carbono em zonas costeiras. A informação foi divulgada no site do Ministério da Educação e Ciência da Rússia. O consumo de […] Fonte

Trauma is our emotional and physical response to an event so overwhelming that it exceeds our normal ability to cope.

Lula está certo: rearmamento das Forças Armadas não pode ser tabu. Mas país aposta em falsos caminhos para garantir sua soberania territorial. Quais as alternativas? Outras Palavras e FESPSP debatem o tema com dois grandes pesquisadores, em 4/3 The post Defesa: o Brasil diante da Doutrina Donroe appeared first on Outras Palavras.

Decenas de personas se reunieron frente a la Iglesia Hudson United Methodist, en el condado de Caldwell, para una vigilia por las 13 personas detenidas una semana antes en Wilson Creek. La entrada Vigilia comunitaria y caravana a Wilson Creek recuerda que “el bosque es de todos” y “nadar no es un crimen” se publicó primero en Enlace Latino NC. Vigilia comunitaria y caravana a Wilson Creek recuerda que “el bosque es de todos” y “nadar no es un crimen” was first posted on agosto 3, 2026 at 6:48 pm.©2024 "Enlace Latino NC". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at paola@enlacelatinonc.org

Decenas de personas se reunieron frente a la Iglesia Hudson United Methodist, en el condado de Caldwell, para una vigilia por las 13 personas detenidas una semana antes en Wilson Creek. La entrada Vigilia comunitaria y caravana a Wilson Creek recuerda que “el bosque es de todos” y “nadar no es un crimen” se publicó primero en Enlace Latino NC. Vigilia comunitaria y caravana a Wilson Creek recuerda que “el bosque es de todos” y “nadar no es un crimen” was first posted on agosto 3, 2026 at 6:48 pm.©2024 "Enlace Latino NC". Use of this feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this article in your feed reader, then the site is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact me at paola@enlacelatinonc.org

EdNews had questioned the commission’s decision in June to move the hearings behind closed doors.

While two-thirds of Montana is getting a bit of relief from wildfire smoke, conditions in the western portion likely will continue to be smoky, according to the Montana Department of Environmental Quality. By Monday afternoon, smoke had cleared out of much of the central portion of the state, with Great Falls, Helena and Havre all […]

When David Morales was elected to the State House in 2020, then-Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza called to congratulate him and invited the freshman lawmaker to meet the next day, offering advice about governing and public service.  Six years later, Elorza formally endorsed Morales’ bid to unseat Providence Mayor Brett Smiley. “If you’re a voter who […]

President Donald Trump continues to insist damage to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool was the result of vandalism, despite a Department of Justice motion filed on July 31 that placed the blame squarely on a contractor's "botched" installation of the pool coating "and not vandalism as initially represented" by the Department of Interior. The post Trump’s Continued Claims of Vandalism at Reflecting Pool Disputed by U.S. Attorney Memo appeared first on FactCheck.org.

Gov. Mike Braun fired Indiana Utility Regulatory Commissioner Andy Zay from his post, in the first such dismissal in more than a decade.

Les Médias francophones publics offrent une série de reportages qui portent sur des parcours de vie marqués par un changement majeur. Une brisure parfois dramatique, qui peut aussi mener vers un futur lumineux. C’est ce qu’a vécu Amélie : elle est passée de directrice générale d’une entreprise à musicienne. Entre les deux, il y a le cancer du sein. Une épreuve qui l’a convaincue de suivre son instinct… Aujourd'hui, elle fait carrière sous son patronyme : Beyries. Elle a accueilli chez elle la journaliste de Radio-Canada, Marie-Christine Bouillon.