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Mantun milièr de viticultors se manifestèron dissabte a Besièrs per denonciar una situacion qu’estiman venguda insostenibla, çò rapòrta Sud-Ouest. Confrontats a una concurréncia estrangièra agressiva, a de prèses tirats cap aval per la granda distribucion, a de nòrmas jutjadas estofantas e als efièches del cambiament climatic, demandan a l’Estat d’intervenir. Dins un cortègi d’entre 4000 e 7000 personas, los principals sindicats agricòlas mostrèron una rara unitat per denonciar una situacion venguda, segon eles, insuportabla. Continua llegint

A còps, i a causas que’vs deishan sense de votz. Jo soi musicaire dempuèi mès de quaranta annadas. Es quitament vengut ma profession. Èi començat de m’interessar ad aquò joenòt estant per estiles deu sud deus Estats Units, rockabilly, rock’n’roll, country, blues, honky tonk, gospel, en medish temps que d’autas musicas tradicionales (rasseguratz-vos) d’un pauc de pertot. E dens aqueste canton musicau plan particular, i a una persona qu’aucupava una part màger, que’s sonava Jerry Lee Lewis. Continua llegint

Super-XIII: primièra victòria de Vilafranca   Dissabte, al Molin, partida equilibrada entre Lesinhan e Vilanòva, mas sus la fin los locals s’impausan: 32-24. Albi coneis qualques dificultats per se desfaire de Sent Gaudenç: 20-12. Tolosa es despassat pel vam dels pianencs; 4-34. Dimenge, Vilafranca bat Avinhon 30-22: ganha atal sa primièra partida de la sason e abandona la darrièra plaça al classament a Sent Gaudenç. Continua llegint

Alaska legislators with the state Joint Armed Services Committee are raising concerns that a federal directive to prepare the Alaska National Guard to deploy domestically for civil unrest could divert service members from disaster relief efforts.  In October, the Pentagon ordered all states to prepare the National Guard to be trained for “civil disturbance operations,” […]

Kate Rogers resigned from her position after Patrick criticized a 2023 dissertation in which she asserted the importance of Indigenous people’s history at the Alamo.

WASHINGTON — David Richardson, the senior official performing the duties of the administrator at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, has resigned and moved to the “private sector,” a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security said Monday.  Karen Evans, the agency’s chief of staff, is expected to take on the role of acting administrator starting […]

COLUMBIA — South Carolina Supreme Court Justice John Few defended his vote to strike down the state’s 2021 abortion law as he tries to keep his job on the state’s highest court. Few and his three challengers appeared Monday before the Legislature’s judicial screening panel. The public hearing took an unexpected turn when it was […]

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Sign up for Chalkbeat New York’s free daily newsletter to get essential news about NYC’s public schools delivered to your inbox. New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced Monday that the city met a high-stakes test under the state’s class size reduction law: ensuring 60% of this year’s classrooms fell under the new limits. But he failed to mention that the city only cleared that hurdle by quietly declaring thousands of classrooms exempt from the requirements. A Chalkbeat analysis of data released Monday found that without the exemptions the city would have fallen just short of compliance, potentially putting it at risk of losing hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid. Officials declared roughly 10,500 of the city’s more than 150,000 classes exempt. With those classrooms removed from the equation, 64% of classrooms citywide were in compliance — the rate city officials reported to the state. The city’s rate without the exemptions? 59.5%. Several administrators and parents at schools with exempted classrooms said they were unaware they had won exemptions — and hadn’t requested them. “I was a little surprised to see we were listed as exempt,” said one principal who didn’t ask for the exemptions and didn’t know they were coming. “It’s ironic because they ask us to come up with a plan for our school … but then when they make larger decisions, they don’t ask us anything,” said the principal, who spoke on the condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation. The state’s sweeping class size law, which limits classes to between 20 and 25 students, took effect in 2022 and requires that an additional 20% of classrooms fall under the caps each year. This year’s 60% mandate was the first major test the city faced, since only 47% of classes were under the caps last November. (Classes that require larger groups like physical education are not subject to the caps.) The challenge gets more daunting over the next year as the city races to get 80% of classes under the caps, soliciting another round of class size reduction plans from principals, who can request changes to their building configuration and money to hire additional teachers. City officials project the annual cost of hiring additional teachers could be as high as $1.7 billion when the caps are fully implemented, with up to $18 billion in school construction costs on top of that. Some critics said the flood of exemptions this year heightens their concerns that the city will only lean more heavily on them in the years to come. “It just underlines and emphasizes the fact that they don’t have a serious plan, and they never have,” said Leonie Haimson, the executive director of the advocacy group Class Size Matters and a key advocate for the state law. To meet the state’s 60% threshold, the city spent roughly $450 million on a teacher hiring spree this fall — and took advantage for the first time of a clause in the law that allows some schools to ignore the requirements if they have limited space, are overenrolled, are in financial distress, or face a shortage of licensed teachers. The city exempted classes at more than 120 schools, Chalkbeat’s analysis found. Teachers union officials confirmed Monday that principals were not directly involved in the exemption process. Under state law, the chancellor of the Education Department and the presidents of the unions for teachers and administrators can — and did — make the decisions. “It’s not up to the school,” teachers union President Michael Mulgrew told Chalkbeat. “This is a law for the school system.” An Education Department spokesperson said the exemptions must be renegotiated every year and schools that received exemptions this year should still aim for full class size compliance. “Surpassing 60 percent of our class size reduction target for the 2025–2026 school year is a major step forward, and we’re not slowing down," Adams said in a statement. Schools can get a pass for “overenrollment” or space limitations A handful of the exemptions were already agreed to over the summer. In a class size plan released in July, city and union officials agreed to exempt the city’s eight specialized high schools, coveted programs like Stuyvesant and Brooklyn Tech that admit students based on a single test, on the grounds they are “overenrolled.” Another set of schools could qualify for exemptions based on lack of space if a new annex or school building was in the works nearby, officials said in July. In the city’s two current capital plans, from 2020-24 and from 2025-29, a total of about 26,000 seats are supposed to be added in coming years through a combination of annexes and new buildings. But people at several of the schools that received exemptions Monday said they were unaware of any annex or school construction plans nearby. At least three schools receiving class size exemptions had no new construction projects listed in their districts, according to the city’s data. At P.S./I.S. 87 in Washington Heights, where 91 of 118 classes were issued exemptions, an annex project was recently added to the city’s capital plan to deliver 342 seats — but with no estimated completion date. Olympia Kazi, a parent at the school who has been pushing for years for lower class sizes, said she was “saddened and dismayed” to learn about the exemptions. “An annex may materialize at best in three to four years,” she said. “That means a generation of kids will still go through elementary school in overcrowded classes.” Kazi noted that she suggested several other strategies for reducing class sizes while the school awaits additional space, including staggering start times for different groups of students and capping incoming kindergarten enrollment. Those ideas haven’t gone anywhere. “I believe class size is a major issue for every school, and especially the overcrowded schools,” she said. “I wish there had been real community engagement before they decided any of this and an explanation of the reasoning behind this.” Haimson believes granting the exemptions without including school communities in the process violates the spirit, if not the letter, of the law. Having union officials help decide on exemptions at schools “where the principals don’t necessarily even want those exemptions, is bizarre,” she said. Haimson added that new construction isn’t guaranteed to bring schools under the class size caps if the city doesn’t limit enrollment at overcrowded schools. Hundreds of schools don’t have the space to meet the class size caps, officials say, but the city has largely rejected requests to cap their enrollment. Restricting enrollment is also a non-starter with the teachers union. At the Boerum Hill School for International Studies, a 6-12 campus, more than half of the school’s 222 classes are exempt from the new class size caps. Antonia Ferraro Martinelli, the parent of a ninth grader at the school, said the campus is crunched for space in part because it houses four schools and there is little room to shrink classes. News of the exemptions came as a surprise to parent leaders and the school administration, however, because they hadn’t requested them. The school’s principal is “putting her efforts toward being in compliance so this is coming out of left field,” said Ferraro Martinelli, who spoke with the principal on Monday. (The principal did not respond to a request for comment.) Several educators and parents at schools that received exemptions said they plan to continue pushing to reduce class sizes. In general, the city’s highest-need schools stand to benefit the least from the class size caps because they already tend to have smaller classes. A disproportionate share of spending to reduce class sizes is flowing to more affluent campuses, city data show. Because of that, some advocates with equity concerns called on city and state leaders last week to pause the class size caps entirely, a move permitted under the law. Still, Education Department officials declined to request a pause, even as they previously raised similar equity concerns. Their reason: They’re making plenty of progress without it. Michael Elsen-Rooney is a reporter for Chalkbeat New York, covering NYC public schools. Contact Michael at melsen-rooney@chalkbeat.org Alex Zimmerman is a reporter for Chalkbeat New York, covering NYC public schools. Contact Alex at azimmerman@chalkbeat.org.

La fragmentación del Congreso ha transformado por completo la relación entre el Gobierno y una Cámara donde los dos grandes partidos han perdido 134 escaños en una década. Este nuevo escenario obliga a negociar cada ley con precisión quirúrgica y sin mayorías aseguradas en un Parlamento más plural

Os povos originários se baseiam em indicadores naturais para avaliar os impactos da crise climática. Os sinais estão na floresta, nas plantas e nas águas.

El giro del Gobierno del Reino Unido ha abierto una nueva brecha en el Partido Laborista, que observa cómo crece la disidencia interna por el temor generalizado a la presión electoral de Reform UK.

Logo após a 30ª Conferência das Nações Unidas sobre Mudanças Climáticas (COP30), cuja programação termina na próxima sexta-feira (21), o governo federal irá finalizar o processo de criação de 12 assentamentos da reforma agrária nos municípios de Canaã dos Carajás e Parauapebas, no sul do Pará, em área que foi utilizada pela companhia Vale e […] Na COP30, presidente do Incra confirma criação de assentamentos em área ocupada pela Vale no Pará apareceu primeiro no Brasil de Fato.

According to Politico, federal officials could relocate the agency here and tap Texas Division of Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd to lead it.

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Eastern Cape municipalities fail to realise Section 27 of the Constitution

El caso de Leire Díez, marcado por reuniones con altos cargos y audios cuestionados, revela tensiones entre periodismo, poder e investigación judicial. La disputa sobre la validez de las grabaciones abre un debate clave sobre transparencia y garantías procesales.

A Secretaria de Segurança Pública de São Paulo informou que está apurando o caso em que policiais militares foram até uma escola, armados, após um pai ter acionado a polícia depois de a filha ter feito um desenho de orixá.  Quatro policiais militares entraram, portando armas, na Emei Antônio Bento (Butantã), depois de terem recebido a ligação do pai. O caso ocorreu na tarde da última quarta-feira (12). O pai teria dito que a filha estaria sendo obrigada a ter aula de religião africana.  Notícias relacionadas: Mãe denuncia agressão a menino brasileiro em escola de Portugal. No dia anterior, terça-feira (11), o pai da criança já havia ido à escola demonstrar sua insatisfação em relação à aula e teria se portado de maneira inadequada, retirando do mural o desenho de Iansã que a filha havia feito.  Os policiais permaneceram na escola por mais de uma hora e foram embora por volta das 17h10 junto com o pai da aluna. Em nota, a diretora Aline Aparecida Nogueira informou que a escola “não trabalha com doutrina religiosa" e que o "trabalho centrado a partir do currículo antirracista”. Ela disse ainda ter sido “coagida e interpelada pela equipe por aproximadamente 20 minutos”.  O caso provocou revolta nas famílias que têm filhos na unidade escolar. Eles se dispuseram a prestar depoimento sobre o ocorrido. Repercussão Em nota à Agência Brasil, a Secretaria de Segurança Pública de São Paulo informou que a “Polícia Militar instaurou apuração sobre a conduta da equipe que atendeu à ocorrência, inclusive com a análise das imagens das câmeras corporais”. Segundo o órgão, a professora da unidade de ensino registrou boletim de ocorrência contra o pai da estudante “por ameaça”. A Secretaria Municipal de Educação também se manifestou sobre o caso e escreveu que “o pai recebeu esclarecimento que o trabalho apresentado por sua filha integra uma produção coletiva do grupo” e que a atividade “faz parte de propostas pedagógicas da escola, que tornam obrigatório o ensino de história e cultura afro-brasileira e indígena dentro do Currículo da Cidade de São Paulo”. O Sindicato dos Profissionais de Educação manifestou apoio aos responsáveis pela Emei Antonio Bento e afirma que a entrada dos policiais na unidade “gerou constrangimento, intimidação e profundo abalo emocional na equipe escolar”. O sindicato ainda informou que a atividade desenvolvida tem respaldo pedagógico e que “repudia qualquer violação à autonomia pedagógica, qualquer forma de intimidação aos profissionais da educação e qualquer situação que coloque em risco a segurança física e emocional de educadores e estudantes”. A entidade pede a apuração dos fatos. A deputada federal Luciene Cavalcanti e o deputado estadual Carlos Giannazi, ambos do PSOL, acionaram o Ministério da Igualdade Racial para que acompanhe o caso.

The NUPL viewed the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Terrorism Financing Prevention and Suppression Act as laws “to punish those who stand with [the people],” recounting many cases of human rights workers who had been slapped with these cases to silence them. The post Charges faced by detained Filipino journalist dropped to 2; Is her release near? appeared first on Bulatlat.