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It’s been another busy week in Michigan. Can you answer these 10 questions about the week in politics, sports and life?

ملوانان ناو هواپیمابر آمریکایی «آبراهام لینکلن» پس از ۱۱ ماه ماموریت به خانه بازگشتند.

The $1 million Tarkington Park project is funded by a grant from Lilly Endowment. The post A playground faces replacement. A nature advocate says keep it. appeared first on Mirror Indy.

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Black, Asian, and Hispanic voters favor Democratic candidates by substantial margins ahead of the upcoming midterm elections, according to a new poll from the Pew Research Center. While all three groups have historically favored Democrats, the latest findings draw into sharp relief the racial and ethnic divisions in the nation’s political preferences heading into elections […] The post Race Remains a Dividing Line in Battle For Congress, Poll Finds appeared first on The Emancipator.

United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain looks poised to win a second four-year term, with an overwhelming lead in member balloting for the union’s top officers.

(The Center Square) – A bipartisan coalition of governors from states across the PJM electricity interconnection, between the Mid-Atlantic region and the greater Chicagoland area, signed an agreement they hope will lower energy costs for ratepayers. At the Governors’ Summit on the State of PJM in Chicago Thursday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker and 12 other governors agreed to a memorandum of understanding that formally created the PJM Governors’ Collaborative organization, which they say will increase coordinated efforts between states to lower energy costs. “We are set to pay for a massive transmission build-out, made more costly by the lack of productive planning and proactive effort and lack of consideration for interregional transmission,” Pritzker said. “Prices in PJM's capacity market have increased over a thousand percent from 2023. Projections show reliability problems in the near future as the wave of data center load comes online. All of that is unacceptable.” One way Pritzker said Illinois is working to bring new energy capacity to the grid is through nuclear. “We have removed barriers to building new nuclear power plants and in the process of upgrading existing nuclear power plants that are operating today. That process is ongoing,” Pritzker said. His remark about nuclear energy came just after Google announced a project with Constellation to invest $4.3 billion to expand generation capacity at 11 of Illinois’ nuclear generator sites. The Google-backed project is projected to add 890 megawatts to the PJM grid across multiple states in the region. PJM has had issues in recent months with being able to guarantee that there will be enough energy produced for the multi-state grid as demand for electricity continues to increase for a variety of reasons, including the build-out of data centers. Pritzker has pushed the state legislature to pass the POWER Act this fall, which would require new data center developments to bring new energy generation capacity onto the grid, alongside other regulations. Recent meetings with the Federal Energy Commission and PJM representatives led to recommended changes to the way PJM operates, as experts warn the grid could run short on power during critical times, such as severe weather, in the next few years. As for the new collaborative effort by the group of governors, Pritzker said it will allow them a greater stake in the decisions made in the Regional Transmission Organization. “We deserve a meaningful seat at the table, just as our neighboring states have had with different RTOs for years now. It's time for a change. That was the motivation for creating the PJM Governors Collaborative to strengthen the voice of our states and leverage our collective resources to build a better system on behalf of all of our constituents,” Pritzker said. The memorandum was signed by governors from Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and New Jersey – and the mayor of Washington D.C.

(The Center Square) – As public education remains a concern for taxpayers, supporters of school choice programs argue that giving families more educational options can improve student outcomes at a lower cost. More than 30 states have some form of school choice program, while 30 states have opted into the Trump administration’s Education Freedom Tax Credit Program, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2027. Supporters of both state-level school choice programs and the federal tax credit say they give families more options to find schools that better fit their children’s educational needs. Ryan Cantrell, chief state strategy officer at the American Federation for Children, told The Center Square that school choice programs put education dollars in the hands of parents and make them the decision makers. “There really isn’t a better form of accountability than a parent being able to say, ‘This school is not working for my child. I am going to take those dollars and I’m gonna go elsewhere with them,' ” Cantrell said. As students' public education continues to struggle academically, results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress show that student performance in reading and math have declined since 2019, with K-12 students as a whole at 30% proficiency. Lance Izumi, senior director of education studies at Pasadena, Calif.-based Pacific Research Institute, said additional education spending does not necessarily translate into improved academic outcomes. “It’s very difficult to look at these cries for more funding as anything more than just funding the adults in the system and not helping the students,” Izumi told The Center Square. Izumi also said public schools are facing growing competition from charter schools, private schools and homeschooling options that participate in school choice programs. According to Education World Wide, homeschooled students generally score between the 65th and 75th percentiles, while the average public school student scores near the 50th percentile. A study by the National Home Education Research Institute found that homeschooled students typically score 15% to 25% higher on standardized academic achievement tests than public school students. There are similar results for students who are in private and charter schools, outperforming students from public schools. Private school students test higher than public school students. According to National Center for Education Statistics data, 88% of private high school students apply to college, compared to 57% of public high school students. Also, College Board reports indicate that SAT scores for private school students are around 1200 out of 1600, well above the national average of 1029, according to the Council for American Private Education. For charter schools, academic results are generally similar to or slightly higher than those of traditional public schools. Yet a 2023 study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University found that students attending charter schools made greater academic gains than their peers in traditional public schools because charter school students in mathematics advanced their learning by an additional six days over the course of a year. In reading, they gained the equivalent of 16 additional days of learning, according to Stanford. As charter schools aim to help low-income families, test scores from the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress in English language arts show 49.7% of charter school students met or exceeded state standards. That's compared to 49.2% of students in non-charter schools. In mathematics, 36.7% of charter school students met or exceeded standards, compared with 37.9% statewide in non-charter schools. Meanwhile, the average cost of a school choice scholarship is roughly $6,000 per student, compared with about $18,000 in average public-school spending, according to EdChoice. Cantrell highlighted research from Ohio that found positive outcomes for low-income students participating in voucher programs. According to a study by the Urban Institute, students who participated in school choice programs were more likely to enroll in college than students who remained in public schools and were also more likely to earn a bachelor’s degree. “We are spending less money and getting better results,” Cantrell noted. The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty analyzed more than 100,000 low- and middle-income Wisconsin students between the 2018-19 and 2022-23 school years. The review measured performance on the English Language Arts portion of the Wisconsin Forward Exam, a state assessment test for public school students and compared the results to school-choice students from similar economic backgrounds in the public school system. “Researchers found that, across all three of Wisconsin’s major private-school choice programs, students who remained enrolled longer consistently experienced stronger academic growth in reading than similar students who stayed in public schools,” according to the Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs. Jorge Elorza, CEO of Democrats for Education Reform and advocate for school choice, told The Center Square that Democrats have fallen behind both politically and policy-wise on K-12 education. “Voters are watching. They see that we have been silent on this issue," Elorza said. "Now there is a political imperative for us to reprioritize and refocus on K-12 education. And it can’t be more of the same. It can’t just be more money to be more of the same. That is not working.”

SDSU’s School of Theatre, Television, and Film announces its 100th Season with a wide range of productions.

The Kansas City Council voted 11-2 to redirect $1.4 billion to pay for stadium debt. That includes public safety dollars that are already squeezed by plans for a new jail, community resource center and police station. The post KC’s bet on Royals stadium could cut into tight budget for new jail, public safety projects appeared first on The Beacon.

North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein Friday signed a bill to suspend the state’s 41-cent per gallon gas tax until the end of November. State lawmakers approved it nearly unanimously Wednesday. The measure also extends a waiver for the on-road use of dyed diesel until the end of the year. Farmers can buy red-dyed diesel, which […]

Ռուսաստանցիների համար վտանգավոր է դարձել եվրոպական երկրներ այցելելը, հայտարարել է Կրեմլի խոսնակ Դմիտրի Պեսկովը՝ «Վեստի»-ի հետ զրույցում մեկնաբանելով Չեռնոգորիայում "Рыбарь" նախագծի հիմնադիր Միխայիլ Զվինչուկի ձերբակալությունը:

Los vigueses del PSG, (procedentes del Movimiento Socialista Galego) fueron acusados de "españoleiros" por su propuesta de entenderse con el PSOE para constituir un partido parecido el Partido Socialista de Cataluña. Lo más graciosos es que los mismos de Santiago que acusaban luego fueron diputados del PSOE, alguno muy conocido.

საქართველოს ეროვნული ბანკის საბჭომ ერთხმად გადაწყვიტა, რომ საბჭოს წევრი ნანა ყეინიშვილი აღარ მიიღებს მონაწილეობას გადაწყვეტილებების შემუშავებისა და მიღების პროცესში.

Загалом від початку повномасштабної війни РФ проти України журналісти підтвердили загибель 276 113 російських військових. Понад 7,8 тисяч з них – офіцери російської армії й інших силових структур

Frente a la alarma generada en la comunidad educativa, la autoridad sanitaria detalló que los pacientes no comparten nexo epidemiológico, recordando además que la TBC es una patología endémica que cuenta con tratamiento gratuito y efectivo en el país. Este artículo Descartan brote de tuberculosis: Seremi de Salud aclara que casos de estudiantes en Calama no tienen relación epidemiológica fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

El Museo do Pobo Galego acogió una emotiva despedida al histórico dirigente nacionalista, fallecido a los 90 años. Representantes de todas las sensibilidades políticas, intelectuales y ciudadanos reconocieron su contribución a la Galicia contemporánea.

Entre panelas, flores e comidas de rua, aromas despertam lembranças e dão à espera um sentido de reencontro O post  Cheiros anunciam a chegada de um novo Círio em Belém apareceu primeiro em Mídia NINJA.

Російська окупаційна влада примусово розлучає українських дітей із батьками чи опікунами і використовує їх як інформаторів, готуючи їх до майбутньої служби у армії РФ. Про це йдеться у щорічному звіті Державного департаменту США щодо ситуації у світі з торгівлею людьми. Цитата: "За наявними даними, російська влада примусово розлучала деяких українських дітей із батьками чи опікунами, передаючи їх на усиновлення або у прийомні сім’ї в Росії. ... Також фіксувалися випадки, коли силовики...

Ouvimos muito que o terceiro governo Lula não entregou o que prometeu, que exagerou prometendo picanha a preço baixo. Para sermos justos, a inflação acumulada da picanha desde o primeiro dia do governo foi de 7,81%, bem abaixo da inflação geral de 17,9%, e ainda menor do que o crescimento da renda nominal deste mesmo […] Fonte