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The Tennessee Senate passed a bill, which requires doctors to report on transgender related healthcare, despite protests from activists and privacy concerns raised by Democrats. The post Tennessee Senate Passes Amended Trans Healthcare Tracking Bill appeared first on Nashville Banner.

Раніше голова міста повідомив, що в лікарні померла 78-річна херсонка, яка постраждала внаслідок російського обстрілу Корабельного району

The Tennessee House passed a bill to nearly double the state's Education Freedom Scholarship program to 35,000 seats and added an amendment requiring public schools to track the immigration status of their students. The post House Narrowly Votes to Expand Vouchers to 35,000 Tennessee Students appeared first on Nashville Banner.

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El movimiento legal sacude una investigación bajo secreto y anticipa una batalla judicial de alto voltaje político y mediático.

As she seeks to be Michigan’s next governor, Jocelyn Benson’s main takeaway from her time as secretary of state is that government needs to show up when it’s needed — and needs to get out of the way when it’s not. “I say that at a time where it kind of feels like, especially at […]

Washington state is penalizing a Seattle-based vehicle battery manufacturer for exposing workers to lead levels more than four times the safety limit. The Department of Labor and Industries said last week it imposed a nearly $225,000 fine on Dyno Battery after the company failed to fix the violations. Dyno Battery is a family-owned company that […]

The IRS has identified potential excess benefit transactions between Epic Charter Schools and its founders' for-profit management company, even as it allowed the school to keep its nonprofit tax status. The findings, covering fiscal years 2019 through 2021, could result in significant financial penalties as a separate state criminal case moves toward trial. The post IRS Flags Potential Excess Benefit Transactions at Epic Charter Schools, State Criminal Trial Looms appeared first on Oklahoma Watch.

Every year, the NOPD touts the dozens of arrests they make for gun possession during Carnival season. But is policing for possession a sound strategy for violence reduction?

Today’s round of questions, my smart-aleck replies and the real answers: Question: When you’re driving on the I-240 bypass headed into downtown Asheville, there is an exit that takes you along Carrier Park on Amboy Road. There is a major project of some sort going on along the French Broad River there. Much of the […] The post Answer Man: Another cofferdam in the French Broad River? Do Buncombe tax assessors who work in real estate have conflict of interest? appeared first on Asheville Watchdog.

The pediatric hospital will launch the multiphase project as it continues expanding into communities well beyond the Kansas City area. The post Children’s Mercy seeks massive expansion of its downtown campus. Here’s why appeared first on The Beacon.

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Российские власти думают о пересмотре подхода к ограничениям интернета из-за опасений, что это бьет по рейтингу Владимира Путина, пишет Bloomberg со ссылкой на источники.

Eleven of the 13 Democrats running for Congress in New Jersey's 12th District met at Princeton University for a debate Monday.

Claim: An Instagram account, Fuby, alleged that Samuel Et’o has been elected as CAF president after winning the

Sobre el estudio de la posible carcinogenicidad de la vacuna, sobre la que Sterz apunta no haber sido investigada durante el desarrollo del fármaco “por limitaciones de tiempo”, la evidencia científica actual no solo no sugiere que exista una relación entre esta vacuna y el aumento de riesgo de cáncer, sino que incluso se ha observado una relación inversa. En la misma audiencia parlamentaria, el exministro federal de Salud alemán, Karl Lauterbach, señaló que las afirmaciones de Sterz “no eran ciertas en absoluto” y que la vacuna “se sometió a pruebas exhaustivas”, aclarando que “no se habían omitido pasos importantes de las pruebas, sino que se habían integrado”.La cifra que menciona Sterz, esas supuestas 60.000 muertes que atribuye a la vacuna de Pfizer contra la COVID-19, “no proviene de ningún registro oficial, ni de estudios epidemiológicos, ni de la autoridad sanitaria alemana”, como explica en Twitter (ahora X) Jose Ramos Vivas, investigador y profesor de Microbiología Médica y de Virología en la Universidad de Oviedo (Asturias, España). “Es simplemente una estimación personal basada en un supuesto ‘factor de infranotificación’ importado de Estados Unidos que nadie en Alemania utiliza. Es decir, se lo inventa”, añade. Durante su intervención, Sterz hace referencia a un supuesto informe post-comercialización de Pfizer en el que, en teoría, la farmacéutica reconocía más de 1.200 muertes sospechosas durante los meses posteriores a la aprobación de su vacuna. Sin embargo, no hay evidencia de que las muertes ocurridas durante la campaña de vacunación, cuando decenas de millones de personas fueron vacunadas, estén relacionadas con la vacuna. “Si millones de personas participan en cualquier actividad, algunas morirán en las semanas y meses posteriores. Esto no significa que la actividad sea la causa de esas muertes”, recuerdan desde Colaboración en Comunicación para la Salud Pública (PHCC, por sus siglas en inglés). Entre las personas que se hacen eco de este contenido se encuentra Peter Imanuelsen (@PeterSweden7), autodefinido como “periodista independiente” y conocido, como recuerdan desde Monitor Desinfo, por difundir desinformación y propaganda ultraconservadora en redes, así como afirmaciones desinformadoras sobre la seguridad de las vacunas contra la COVID-19. También Aseem Malhotra, cardiólogo sobre el que el colectivo médico ha exigido al Consejo Médico General (GMC, por sus siglas en inglés) tomar medidas por vincular las vacunas contra la COVID-19 con casos de cáncer en la familia real.Autoridades reguladoras de todo el mundo han autorizado la vacuna de Pfizer-BioNTech contra la COVID-19 y comités de expertos médicos han continuado revisando los datos y recomendándola. Desde diciembre de 2020, más de 5.000 millones de dosis se han distribuido por todo el mundo y siguen demostrando seguridad y una eficacia respaldada por amplia evidencia del mundo real, así como mediante datos clínicos, no clínicos, de farmacovigilancia y de fabricación.

Sign up for Chalkbeat’s free weekly newsletter to keep up with how education is changing across the U.S.When the Delaware Valley School District board voted unanimously last month to reverse policies protecting transgender students that they’d adopted a decade ago, some in the audience cried, “Shame!” Others said the board didn’t go far enough.The district had adopted those policies in the first place under pressure from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in response to a complaint from a transgender student. An agreement between the district and the federal government during the Obama administration called for more training for staff and more support for students changing their gender presentation. Now that same agency had told the district the agreement was terminated. Officials had 30 days to remove gender from the district’s anti-discrimination policies or face consequences.The board voted at its March meeting to require transgender students to use locker rooms and bathrooms that match their sex assigned at birth. The superintendent said social workers would meet with the affected students to go over the changes. This whiplash is one potential outcome of the Trump administration’s decision to terminate civil rights agreements drawn up under previous Democratic administrations. The Education Department announced in early April that it was ending such agreements related to violations of Title IX — the federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education — in five school districts in four states, as well as for a California community college. In other communities, little may change because local officials are more supportive of transgender rights. Nevertheless, multiple legal experts and former employees of the Office for Civil Rights told Chalkbeat that tearing up agreements reached after lengthy investigations and negotiations sends a dangerous message to all students: If you file a complaint, the resolution might last only as long as the next presidential election cycle. “How far will it go?” asked Beth Gellman-Beer, an attorney who spent 18 years with OCR under Republican and Democratic administrations. “Once you open that door to something that is unprecedented, where does it end? If we have another administration that is Democratic, what will they do? What will be the point for anyone to bring a case to OCR, if they can’t trust whatever decision that comes out of that complaint will remain the decision?”Revoking civil rights agreements is just one piece of a much larger transformation of the Office for Civil Rights, where a reduced staff focuses on cases that align with the president’s political priorities. And federal officials are blunt about how much the government’s approach has changed between the Obama and Biden administrations and Trump’s second term. “Prior Administrations regularly misinterpreted Title IX to pander to political ideology and police ‘misgendering’ despite not having sound legal grounds,” Education Department spokeswoman Amelia Joy wrote in an email. By terminating past agreements, Joy wrote, “the Trump Administration is upholding the law and righting years of wrongs.”Given what’s happened over the last few presidential administrations, canceling civil rights agreements was perhaps inevitable, said R. Shep Melnick, a Boston College political scientist who has studied civil rights enforcement extensively. “The combination of presidential influence and partisan polarization means you have administrations that have very different understandings of how to interpret civil rights law,” Melnick said. “It’s not surprising, once the regulations flip back and forth, that agreements based on previous understanding of statute would be subject to change.”Ending OCR agreements part of new enforcement approachThe Office for Civil Rights under Trump has made keeping transgender students out of bathrooms and off sports teams that match their gender identity one of its top priorities. Ending the six agreements, which treated discrimination based on gender identity and sex stereotypes as Title IX violations, fits into that broader enforcement approach. Conservatives hailed the decision as reversing a misinterpretation of Title IX.“These particular agreements were changing the definitions of sex such that boys could self-identify into locker rooms, bathrooms, and showers,” said Beth Parlato, senior legal counsel at the conservative Independent’s Women’s Forum. “The Trump administration is sending a strong message that Title IX is about protecting women and girls.”In Delaware Valley, a 4,200-student district in northeast Pennsylvania, most transgender students weren’t using shared restrooms even under the OCR agreement, said Taylor James, executive director of TriVersity Pride Center, an LGBTQ community group and resource center based in Milford. Fearful of backlash, he said, most students either used the restroom in the nurse’s office or just waited until they got home. But telling students they can’t use a restroom they feel comfortable in sends a message that there’s something wrong with them, James said.Without the OCR agreement in place, James fears there won’t be any repercussions when teachers deliberately misgender students or when students face bullying because they don’t conform. He’s working with legal aid groups on potential next steps, but his top priority is making sure students feel valued and cared for.James said his biggest piece of advice to those students is to “just make it to adulthood, because you will be celebrated for the things you’ve been taught to hate about yourself.” Many states still have laws protecting transgender students Not all of the documents related to the affected districts are available in OCR’s public case search. The Education Department declined to make all the previous settlement agreements available or answer questions about which provisions would no longer be enforced. But in the La Mesa-Spring Valley school district near San Diego, the revoked agreement involved allegations that a nonbinary student was bullied for continuing to use the restroom that matched their sex at birth — the very practice that the Trump administration wants to require. And in the Sacramento Unified School District, the complaint didn’t relate to restrooms at all, according to local news reports. Federal investigators found that district officials responded promptly in 2022 after teachers didn’t use a transgender student’s preferred name and pronouns but failed to inform the student of their right to file a complaint.Kayleigh Baker, a consultant with TNG Consulting and a member of advisory board of the Association of Title IX Administrators, said she’d recommend that institutions “wait just a second” if they’re considering policy changes based on the fact that the agreements have been rescinded. Supreme Court ruling on gender identity favors parents but leaves unanswered questions for schoolsMany states, including California, Delaware, and Washington, where the Education Department rescinded agreements, have state laws protecting transgender students’ rights. Some school districts have had early court wins after pushing back against funding cuts related to Title IX. “We shouldn’t rush to anticipatory complying with what we think the administration may do, because we have state law, we have all of these open questions,” she said. “And at the end of the day, we have very real students and employees who are trying to access their education, access their work environments, free from discrimination, and we don’t want to rush to take away rights that they have.”Kristina Moon, senior attorney with Education Law Center-Pennsylvania, stressed that federal laws and legal rulings, not OCR agreements, ultimately spell out what districts’ obligations are to LGBTQ students. Some affected school districts, for example, are also under the jurisdiction of federal appeals courts that require schools to protect transgender students’ bathroom access. “A fundamental concern is that our school boards and our school leaders are not understanding this distinction and feeling significant threats from the federal government, by design,” Moon said.Parlato acknowledged that rescinding agreements is unusual and that courts haven’t yet consistently interpreted Title IX the way the Trump administration does. But she’s optimistic that will change in the next few years.“Sex is an immutable characteristic, it can’t be changed, and once we can get that codified in law, we won’t have this issue,” she said.Terminating agreements could undermine OCR’s credibilityThe Education Department has also rescinded agreements that have nothing to do with transgender students.Last year the Education Department withdrew a 2023 settlement in Forsyth, Georgia, in which the Office for Civil Rights had determined that book-ban discussions created a hostile environment for some students. The department also ended an agreement in Rapid City, South Dakota, that addressed mistreatment of Native American students. Rescinding agreements tells students not to bother filing complaints, said Gellman-Beer, who led the OCR’s now-closed Philadelphia office before resigning last year. She also fears it will give school districts few incentives to work cooperatively with OCR or comply with ongoing monitoring.“It’s going to make it a thousand times more difficult to negotiate with a school district when they think they can just renegotiate with the next administration,” she said.Throwing out agreements is “clearly going to reduce the credibility and authority of OCR,” Melnick said. At the same time, the more overtly politicized enforcement becomes, the more questions it raises about the validity of agreements. Melnick highlighted how the Trump administration threatened to withhold billions in federal research dollars to pressure universities to sign sweeping settlements of antisemitism claims.“One administration should not be able to lock in a policy for the indefinite future regardless,” Melnick said.Students bring complaints because they want their negative experience to lead to a meaningful change in their community, Baker said. Even students who agree with the current administration’s policies might wonder, “who’s to stop that meaningful change from being undone the second there’s a change in power?”Erica Meltzer is Chalkbeat’s national editor based in Colorado. Contact Erica at emeltzer@chalkbeat.org.Lily Altavena is a national reporter at Chalkbeat. Contact Lily at laltavena@chalkbeat.org.

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La inflación ha aumentado más de un punto respecto a febrero, lo que supone el mayor incremento mensual desde junio de 2022.

Missouri lawmakers are right to treat the collapse of rural health care as an urgent crisis. Nearly half of the state’s remaining rural hospitals are at risk of closure, and many communities already know what it means to lose emergency rooms, labor and delivery services and timely stroke care. In this environment, legislation allowing MU […]