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Russia launched the Soyuz-5 expendable two-stage rocket for the first time on the evening of April 30, lifting off from a pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Roscosmos said.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Newark’s free newsletter to get the latest news about the city’s public school system delivered to your inbox.Kristen Victorino remembers the moment Newark officials laid out a problem to her in 2023: an unprecedented surge in referrals for students with disabilities. The referrals felt “never-ending,” administrators in Newark Public Schools’ Office of Special Education told Victorino, an associate professor of speech-language pathology at Rutgers School of Health Professions.In a city where more than a third of residents are born outside of the United States, Newark educators feared students were being mislabeled as having speech or language disabilities when, in reality, they were still learning English, Victorino said. She and her team started to look at the district’s data with the help of funding from the Rutgers Equity Alliance for Community Health. Her team found that during the 2022-23 school year, Newark Public Schools conducted more than 1,200 initial special education evaluations, a rate district leaders felt “was a real surge at that time” due to an influx of new students in the district, many who didn’t speak English, Victorino said. Rutgers also found barriers affecting accurate evaluations of students who came from homes where English wasn’t the primary language, such as an overreliance on speech-language test scores when testing may not have happened in a student’s primary language, time constraints for evaluations, and communication gaps.Victorino’s work with Newark led to a needs assessment that detailed problem areas and created training sessions with district employees and contractors. They also implemented a “train the trainer model” where four district speech language pathologists from different parts of the city receive extra training from Rutgers and serve as peer leaders. Rutgers’ goal is to make the evaluation process more accurate for students who don’t speak English but their work is just starting. They will know if they were successful by comparing future evaluations to prior ones and looking at the percentage of bilingual students identified for speech-language services over time. Newark’s public schools are also culturally diverse, Victorino said, and if evaluators are not trained to distinguish the linguistic differences between English and other languages, such as Spanish, evaluations can get complicated. “So many of these kids are bilingual or in some way culturally and linguistically diverse, and they just didn’t feel like it’s possible that they all have disabilities,” Victorino added. “They said, ‘what can we be doing differently?’” That surge in evaluations came as the district was still recovering from the pandemic, and experienced a rise in English language learners that began before 2020, according to a Chalkbeat analysis. Typically, initial evaluations for special education services are conducted by a team of school leaders, including administrators, special education teachers, psychologists, and specialists who may determine speech, language, motor, and functional skills.Multiple studies show that bilingual students and English learners are often misidentified as having language or speech disorders. That presents a challenge for a district like Newark, New Jersey’s largest school system, which is home to more than 1,200 English language learners who speak Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, French, or Haitian Creole. Paul Brubaker, Newark Public Schools communications director, did not respond to questions about the district’s rate of special education evaluations or how many students were potentially misidentified for speech and language services. Most of the initial evaluations for speech and language are conducted by contractors hired outside of the district, while others are done by the district’s Child Study Team members, Victorino said. Data about initial special education evaluations is not publicly available at the state or district level.Victorino’s team held focus groups with district employees and contracted evaluators and found underlying issues. She said there were miscommunications around “what the expectations for evaluation should be, what the district wants to see, versus what the evaluators think they’re supposed to do.” Arlene Hernandez, a bilingual speech language pathologist contracted by the district who participated in Rutgers focus groups and training, said she has seen how easy it is to get evaluations wrong. Across the country, there is a shortage of bilingual speech-language pathologists.“We want to do good for our kids in our community and it’s so important that we are looking at language differences,” Hernandez said. “It’s so important that we are looking at language differences and being culturally competent when it comes to determining whether a child presents with a language disorder.” Victorino’s team found that while there was district documentation to show a student spoke a language other than English, evaluators were not thoroughly interviewing families or noting how much they were using the language at home, making it harder to determine whether students were being tested in their primary language. They also found that standardized speech tests used to measure a student’s communication skills against their peers were leading to inaccurate results. Hernandez agreed that it’s important to test children in their primary language and explained how those tests could mislead evaluators. Show a child from Puerto Rico or Ecuador a picture of apple pie and ask them to identify it, she said, and they may not know the answer. “They don’t know apple pie, but they know flan,” Hernandez said. “So, because somebody has never seen it, does that mean they have a disorder?”A student’s sentence structure could also lead to inaccurate results, Hernandez added. A native Spanish speaker may say “I have bag brown” – applying the grammatical rules of Spanish to English – instead of “I have a brown bag.” “Not knowing these types of differences makes it so that many times children are being referred for language services or for special education services, when in reality, what they really need is more support in learning English,” Hernandez said. The goal is not to overburden the system with students who may not require special education services at all, Victorino added. “Then the kids who do need it will be better able to access the services available to them.” Jessie Gómez is a reporter for Chalkbeat Newark, covering public education in the city. Contact Jessie at jgomez@chalkbeat.org.

A proposal to create civics education requirements for all Alaska high school students is advancing in the Legislature, amid a deepening decline in public trust in government nationwide.  Senate President Gary Stevens, R-Kodiak, sponsored Senate Bill 23, which would require high school students to take a semester of civics curriculum, pass a civics exam or […]

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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives plans to repeal or revise nearly three dozen gun regulations and procedures — an announcement made minutes after senators confirmed longtime ATF official Robert Cekada as the agency’s new director. At a press conference on April 29, Cekada described the package of 34 proposals as the most […]

On Thursday, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) proposed a short-term extension of FISA in exchange for declassifying a major opinion from the top government surveillance court, which revealed continuing violations of the controversial authority. Wyden’s proposal follows the passage of House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-LA) bad faith FISA bill that likely will not be taken up by the Senate. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) then objected to Wyden’s proposal, likely catalyzing an unprecedented, if illusory, statutory sunset of Section 702. Cotton is perhaps the most vociferous surveillance hawk making the misleading claim that any statutory sunset of Section 702 would amount to “going dark.”Demand Progress is part of a bipartisan coalition urging Congress to close loopholes in the law that allow the government to bypass the courts to surveil Americans.The following is a statement from Demand Progress Executive Director Sean Vitka:“Tom Cotton and the Senate should accept Sen. Wyden’s deal if they don’t want Section 702 to expire. As we’ve seen over and over again in the House, any path forward that lacks meaningful privacy reforms is doomed to fail. Further, the American people deserve, and policymakers need to see, what violations the FISA court found. It is alarming that those who are fearmongering most over the statutory expiration of Section702 are now embracing it to hide the truth.Sen.Cotton is trying to keep his colleagues and Americans in the dark about how the government is violating the law to surveil us—the very same law some claim is never abused. Senators opposing this deal risk plunging us into uncharted waters, including a sunset of FISA and cancellation of the upcoming recess to sort this all out. Unlike Speaker Johnson and Tom Cotton, Sen. Wyden is offering a viable path forward, instead of incompetent, bad faith machinations to thwart any votes on real reforms.”

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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.It took years of advocacy to secure guaranteed school bus service for New York City students in foster care.But now, advocates say it can take weeks or more to get that bus service up and running, leaving kids who are already among the most vulnerable in the city with few good options to get to school while they wait.That’s why they’re calling on city officials to invest $3 million in this year’s budget to come up with a better system to transport kids in foster care while they await bus service.“At this challenging time in their lives, students should be able to rely on continuous, consistent access to school as a critical source of stability,” the nonprofit Advocates for Children, along with 24 other groups who work with foster youth, wrote in a Tuesday letter to Mayor Zohran Mamdani.Students in foster care see some of the worst educational outcomes of any student group, with a graduation rate of just 41% last year, and 55% marked chronically absent. Students in foster care have a legal right to transportation so that they can remain in their school if they move to another part of the city. But for years, the city Education Department used a combination of school bus service and MetroCards to meet that obligation, spurring protests from foster care agencies who said they couldn’t send students to school alone on public transit. A policy of reimbursing agencies for rideshare services posed a similar problem, since students often need chaperones.The situation improved in recent years after the Education Department launched a dedicated office to oversee transportation for foster youth. That office helps ensure students are matched to a bus route as quickly as possible and troubleshoots problems.Even with those improvements, advocates say it can take “weeks or even months” for bus service to start. In the meantime, students can use a rideshare service and request reimbursement. After 10 days, they become eligible for a rideshare program prepaid by the Education Department. Both those options still require foster parents to accompany kids to school, “a task that is often impossible for foster parents with jobs or other children in the home who attend schools in different communities,” advocates said.They’re instead proposing alternatives that would allow kids to get to school safely on their own for free. One idea is using vehicles owned by the Administration for Children’s Services, the city’s child welfare agency. Another is contracting with a car service that vets drivers — like Kid Car, which already operates in New York City, or HopSkipDrive, which works with Los Angeles public schools — so that kids don’t need to be accompanied by a chaperone. The city could also hire aides to travel with students, or launch a new transportation service, advocates suggested.If all else fails, officials could reimburse travel costs for chaperones (whose expenses aren’t covered currently) and raise the cap on daily reimbursements, the letter suggests.Education Department spokesperson Dominique Ellison pointed to the new office overseeing transportation for foster youth, and said the agency is trying to “continuously improve our processes.”“We thank our advocate partners for their ongoing advocacy and attention to students in foster care and we look forward to reviewing their recommendations,” she added.Michael Elsen-Rooney is a reporter for Chalkbeat New York, covering NYC public schools. Contact Michael at melsen-rooney@chalkbeat.org

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Ermənistanın keçmiş prezidenti Robert Köçaryanın bugünlərdə yerli mediaya verdiyi müsahibədə səsləndirdiyi "Mənə elə gəlir ki, geri dönüşü olmayan nöqtəyə çatmışıq" fikri siyasi şərhçilər tərəfindən Putinin yaxın dostunun Ermənistandakı nəsil dəyişikliyindən doğan narahatlığı kimi qiymətləndirilir.

Massachusetts and Rhode Island are considering dropping GLP-1 drugs for obesity treatment from their Medicaid programs, continuing a trend of states that have stopped coverage of these expensive medications.  Thirteen state Medicaid programs are covering GLP-1 drugs for the treatment of obesity this year, down from 16 last year.  Medicaid programs in California, New Hampshire, […]

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El gobernador de Carolina del Norte, Josh Stein, firmó en ley, el jueves 30 de abril, la medida que otorga $319 millones para financiar el Medicaid en el estado. La entrada Es ley la financiación de $319 millones al Medicaid en Carolina del Norte: qué debes saber se publicó primero en Enlace Latino NC. Es ley la financiación de $319 millones al Medicaid en Carolina del Norte: qué debes saber was first posted on abril 30, 2026 at 3:19 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

Kelvis Williams is taking heat for a campaign mailer that critics say is ‘misleading’ and ‘a last-minute trick.’ The post Marion County sheriff’s candidate accused of ‘shady tactics’ appeared first on Mirror Indy.

A mining firm in Russian-occupied Crimea that was once owned by the holding company of Vadym Novynskiy, a Ukrainian tycoon suspected of treason, and that remains in family hands, continues to contribute to Moscow’s war chest, Schemes has found. Novynskiy, meanwhile, has bought property in Croatia.

A regulamentação das relações de trabalho no serviço público brasileiro pode avançar após décadas de reivindicação de servidores e entidades sindicais que pressionam pela efetivação do direito à negociação coletiva, à organização sindical plena e à criação de mecanismos permanentes de diálogo com o Estado. Em 14 de abril, o presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da […] Fonte

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