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Milwaukee Public Schools detailed some measures it’s considering using to decide which schools it might close. Some community members and educators worry the system would punish schools for issues related to North Side disinvestment. The post District 4 community criticizes criteria being considered to determine which MPS schools to close appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

Two City Council members entered a homeless veterans shelter in Queens against the staff’s orders Thursday as they and other lawmakers ramped up pressure on the Mamdani administration to explain why it rejected federal funding for beds at the facility. “We have the legal authority to enter to provide oversight” of city shelters, Councilmember Julie […] The post Lawmakers Force Inspection of NYC Veterans Shelter Amid Federal Funding Tempest appeared first on The City Reporter.

O fim das plataformas de apostas online pode produzir efeitos positivos que ultrapassam o universo dos jogadores. Para o economista Weslley Cantelmo, a interrupção da chamada “drenagem” de recursos para as bets pode provocar efeitos imediatos sobre a economia, especialmente entre as famílias de menor renda. “A simples ausência da perspectiva de drenagem desse enorme […] Fonte

The New York Times—which played a critical role in dampening skepticism of the "Global War on Terror"—rationalized the violence the US unleashed after 9/11.

The Wisconsin Elections Commission met Thursday to assess its preparations for the midterm elections in November, review reports on allegations of voter fraud and determine the outcome of two complaints against election officials.  The commission met as concerns continue to swirl around Wisconsin and the country over the possibility that President Donald Trump and his […]

With the passage of the Senate Bill 1041, titled the “Public Workforce Modernization Act,” in July, permanent public school employees are newly eligible for 12 weeks of paid parental leave. The law went into effect on Thursday, Oct. 1. SB... The post NC teachers now qualify for 12 weeks of paid parental leave appeared first on EdNC.

O ex-prefeito do Rio de Janeiro Eduardo Paes (PSD) tem 42% das intenções de voto na eleição para governador do Rio de Janeiro, contra 31% do presidente da Assembleia Legislativa do Rio de Janeiro (Alerj), Douglas Ruas (PL), segundo a pesquisa Datafolha divulgada nesta quinta-feira (1º). Na comparação com a pesquisa de 24 de setembro, […] Fonte

Texas A&M University turns 150 years old this year. To celebrate, we’re heading to Bryan and College Station to get an authentic Aggieland experience. The post What it’s like to spend a weekend in Aggieland: From the Midnight Yell to Doggie Poolooza appeared first on Good Info Newswire.

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Kalshi, Polymarket and the Coalition for Prediction Markets have spent at least $3 million this year on lobbying and campaign contributions across the federal and state levels, according to a new report from the government watchdog group OpenSecrets. Prediction market platforms say they are like commodity markets that offer contracts to speculate on the future […]

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Às vésperas das eleições, o histórico de votações dos parlamentares pode ajudar a identificar como representantes de Minas Gerais se posicionaram em temas que tiveram forte repercussão nacional. Entre eles estão o chamado PL da Devastação, que altera as regras do licenciamento ambiental, e a PEC da Blindagem, que modificou regras relacionadas à responsabilização de […] Fonte

Candelario Félix nunca imaginó que terminaría cultivando dátiles en el Valle de Coachella. Estudió arquitectura y trabajó en la construcción hasta que un amigo de la secundaria, cuya familia se dedicaba a esta actividad, le ofreció una oportunidad que cambiaría el rumbo de su vida. Candelario Félix pizca dátiles en su rancho, Candy’s Dates, en […]

"Ha llegado la hora de que PP, Vox y Junts se retraten y demuestren si, en materia de vivienda, están con la ciudadanía o con los especuladores", aseguran desde el EjecutivoJunts tumbará los dos decretos de vivienda y pide al Gobierno que los retire El Gobierno ha decidido no retirar ninguno de los dos decretos de vivienda que se votarán este viernes en el Congreso de los Diputados pese al 'no' de Junts a ambos, que hará que no se convaliden. Para el Ejecutivo “España ya no puede esperar más. Necesita soluciones y una política de vivienda valiente” y por ese motivo han rechazado la petición de la formación independentista de que el Gobierno retirara el decreto antes de la votación para renegociarlo y llevar a la Cámara un texto nuevo y acordado. El Ejecutivo ha asegurado que “se ha trabajado durante meses en ellos para acomodar la visión de los distintos grupos parlamentarios y construir un consenso que esté a la altura de las demandas y las necesidades de la ciudadanía”. Por ese motivo, ha agradecido “la responsabilidad y el compromiso” mostrado por ERC, EH Bildu, PNV, Podemos, BNG y Coalición Canaria “que ya han anunciado que mañana votarán a favor de mejorar la vida de millones de personas”. Los decretos, ha señalado el Gobierno, “contienen medidas eficaces para frenar la especulación, poner coto a los fondos buitre, facilitar el acceso a la primera vivienda, fomentar los alquileres asequibles y frenar los desahucios sin dañar a los pequeños propietarios”. Además, para el Ejecutivo, la utilidad de las medidas “se ha demostrado hoy mismo” porque “ha servido para evitar que Macarena, una vecina de Barcelona, perdiera su casa”. En este sentido, han reiterado que “ha llegado la hora de que PP, Vox y Junts se retraten y demuestren si, en materia de vivienda, están con la ciudadanía o con los especuladores”. “Con las clases medias y trabajadoras o con las élites”, han añadido.

Pesquisa Datafolha divulgada nesta quinta-feira (1º) aponta para um segundo turno entre Cleitinho Azevedo (Republicanos) e Patrus Ananias (PT), na disputa pelo governo de Minas Gerais. O senador lidera com 40% das intenções de voto, enquanto o petista aparece em segundo lugar, com 16%. Alexandre Kalil (PDT) tem 11% e ocupa a terceira posição. Flávio […] Fonte

Even as partisan divisions on the state Board of Elections deepen, a majority of voters want an elections board that operates outside of party politics, according to a new poll sponsored by Common Cause North Carolina.  Eighty percent of likely voters said the elections board should operate independent of party politics, while 9% said it […]

“I feel like I’m just trying not to let patients die,” Dr. Sommer Aldulaimi says in an exasperated voice.  She’s been scrambling to prepare refugees set to lose their health care on Oct. 1. Aldulaimi is co-director of the University of Arizona Refugee Health Program. Hundreds of thousands of refugees of war, asylees who fled persecution […] The post More than 22,000 refugees in Arizona are at risk of losing their health insurance appeared first on AZ Luminaria.

Red Lake's charter school was one of many to commemorate Orange Shirt Day in honor and remembrance of children impacted by the residential school system.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools.After being laid off from his teaching job this summer and not hearing back from schools with competitive open jobs, Andrew Feigenbaum did not expect to be rehired by Chicago Public Schools.Then a divided Chicago Board of Education narrowly passed a budget in late July that required the district to reverse hundreds of school-based layoffs like Feigenbaum’s, relying on additional state funding that has not yet come.Feigenbaum is one of the 350 people CPS has rehired so far under the complex budget mandate, or about one-third of the school-based staffers eligible to have their layoffs reversed. But it’s unclear how long those jobs will last if CPS doesn’t receive an additional $100 million this fiscal year. His new assignment is co-teaching a fifth-grade class at Fernwood Elementary on the Far South Side, which he described as an academically focused and pleasant school where he’s already memorized his new students’ hobbies, favorite books, and strongest subjects.But besides a photo of his kids and some artwork and cards from his former students, Feigenbaum has hesitated hanging up more of his personal items in his classroom because he doesn’t know how long he’ll be there. “Some kids are like, ‘We really hope you can stay for a while,’” Feigenbaum said. “For me, it’s like, you don’t want to open up too much because the more you open up, the more you get hurt if you do have to leave quickly, so I’m kind of trying to find that middle ground.”Many staffers have returned to their old schools in similar positions, while others have been placed in new schools or in different roles, according to the district and records obtained by Chalkbeat through a Freedom of Information Act request. “No one knows what the ultimate resolution will look like,” said Nelson Gerew, chief of internal and public affairs at the Chicago Public Education Fund. “If that money isn’t available, will these positions go away in December, in January? I think there’s a big question hanging over this as well.”At the same time, some principals told Chalkbeat they didn’t really need the rehired staffers, and they would have preferred to fill specific roles their schools needed but CPS had not funded.Neither the Chicago Teachers Union nor the principals union responded to requests for comment for this story. Where CPS has placed rehired staffersCPS placed rehired staffers at more than 200 schools across a range of positions, such as teachers, assistant principals, security guards, and school clerks, according to the staffing records.About 45% of these rehired staffers were placed at their old schools in similar positions, and another 37% were placed at new schools with similar job titles. The remaining almost 18%, about 62 people, were placed in roles they did not have last school year, according to the records and a CPS spokesperson. In late July — less than a month before the first day of school — 11 board members aligned with the mayor’s office and the Chicago Teachers Union supported amending the district’s proposed budget to assume an additional $150 million in state money, with $100 million earmarked for reversing layoffs. Supporters view the maneuver as a way to pressure Springfield to provide more money, pointing to how CPS is funded at 70% of what the state considers adequate. They’ve also described how painful it is for schools to lose trusted staff and cited statements from key state lawmakers who said they will push for more school funding during the state legislature’s veto session in November.CPS CEO Macquline King and her team, along with seven board members, opposed the move, warning that it risked midyear budget cuts and disruption for schools if the money doesn’t come. It remains unclear whether additional funding is coming. It’s also possible that the city of Chicago will send more special taxing district dollars to CPS, known as TIF surplus, than expected, as it did last year. Asked why the district has rehired just one-third of the staffers who are eligible to come back, CPS said it is “actively addressing” the budget’s staffing mandate and will keep hiring “when funding and student needs warrant.” A spokesperson also emphasized that the district is not obligated to rehire everyone it deems eligible to come back. “The number of returning employees will depend on available vacancies, school-level needs, employee eligibility, and the District’s capacity to adequately fund those positions,” said Sylvia Barragan, a spokesperson for CPS, in a statement. How rehiring is playing out in schoolsBy the time the board directed CPS to reverse layoffs, school budgets and schedules were largely set. CPS decided to rehire staffers centrally so that principals didn’t have to reopen their budgets. To determine who to rehire and where to send them, the district’s Talent Office surveyed principals and teachers roughly two weeks after the budget vote and 12 days before the start of school.Feigenbaum, the new Fernwood teacher, filled out the survey and had hoped to get rehired at DePriest, his old school on the West Side, where he taught third-grade math and science. Still, despite his minimum 40-minute drive from his Northwest Side home to Fernwood and uncertainty about the future, he’s “extremely thankful” to have a job.As a co-teacher in a new school, he’s been figuring out how to be “worthwhile and helpful” in his classroom while not overstepping what the existing teacher does well or has planned.The students are “just happy that they have more people who can give them attention and give them the stuff that they need,” which can be difficult in a class of 30 with just one teacher, he said.Some school leaders told Chalkbeat that their class sizes are already manageable as enrollment has dropped again across CPS, and the district sent them people their schools didn’t really need. One principal, who requested anonymity in order to speak candidly, said their South Side high school needs a Spanish teacher. When the principal got the district’s staffing survey, they asked if they could have a Spanish teaching position opened in their budget. District leaders said no — they were focusing on bringing back displaced staffers who have not yet found other jobs, the principal recalled. The survey sent to principals asked them to rank positions they wanted that were previously cut from their school.Ultimately, the principal requested an art teacher they had laid off this past summer, and CPS reassigned her to the school. But an hour after the teacher arrived for her first day, she informed the principal that her parents had retired and left her the family business, so she would be taking a leave of absence, the principal recalled. The principal had not yet changed class schedules to account for this teacher, so the school was able to “keep going as we had planned,” the principal said.On the Northwest Side, one high school’s biggest need was a second interventionist, who provides more intensive academic support to students. But CPS did not allocate that position to the school over the summer, and the rehired staffer the district sent is not an interventionist, according to the school’s principal, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak with the press about this issue. Instead, the school made class scheduling changes so that another staffer could take on the interventionist role. The rehired staffer — someone who is new to this school — acts as a substitute and fills in where necessary or provides some extra support in classrooms, but they’ve been absent more often than other teachers at the school, the principal said. “If our enrollment is down — which most schools, it is — my class sizes are OK,” the principal said. “I’ve got enough teachers for all my classes.” Reema Amin is a reporter covering Chicago Public Schools. Contact Reema at ramin@chalkbeat.org.

When Western Piedmont Community College (WPCC) broke ground on the college’s regional skilled trades solution center in 2022, President Joel Welch said the program had eight students enrolled in construction trades. This semester, enrollment is up to 58 students. Since... The post Western Piedmont Community College is in a ‘time of transformation’ this school year appeared first on EdNC.