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Casi todas las semanas, el Ayuntamiento de San Diego, el Centro Administrativo del Condado y diversas juntas y comisiones locales se reúnen para debatir asuntos que influyen en la vida cotidiana, desde la asequibilidad de la vivienda y la planificación de vecindarios hasta el transporte, los parques, la seguridad pública y los presupuestos gubernamentales. Los […]

O encerramento do ELLA Norte exalta o protagonismo feminino na arte com intervenções de Emy em graffiti e músicas autorais de Larissa Mê O post Intervenções artísticas fecham o ELLA Norte com chave de ouro apareceu primeiro em Mídia NINJA.

Vrhovni sud Rusije zabranio je liberalnoj stranci Jabloko učešće na parlamentarnim izborima sljedećeg mjeseca, blokirajući jedinu grupa koja poziva na okončanje rata Moskve protiv Ukrajine. Odluka od 10. avgusta, na saslušanju održanom ispred suda sa stotinama uglavnom mladih Rusa, ugasila je nade protivnika rata da će imati gdje da iskažu svoje stavove na izborima 18-20. septembra. Ovakav razvoj je naglasio obim netolerancije Kremlja prema neslaganju, koja je postala još ozbiljnija...

U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is taking social media followers behind the scenes as she freezes her eggs. The New York Democrat announced Saturday night on Instagram and the next day on ABC News that she had decided to pursue the treatment to “feel more in control of my life.”  In her posts, Ocasio-Cortez described the […]

Deep-fried favorites, viral sweets, and longtime classics are among the best bites waiting in Louisville. The post 13 Kentucky State Fair foods to try this year, from Flamin’ Hot Cheetos corn dogs to bourbon slushies appeared first on Good Info Newswire.

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Los patrullajes preventivos de la Sección Centauro y la Sección de Intervención abarcaron más de 700 controles de identidad y vehiculares en la comuna, logrando capturar a nueve prófugos de la justicia y cursar 35 infracciones. Este artículo VIDEO | Carabineros detuvo a 14 personas en Antofagasta: 9 de ellos con órdenes vigentes fue publicado originalmente en El Diario de Antofagasta.

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 has long failed to quickly provide special education services even after families won legal orders for them, generating more than two decades of litigation.Three years ago, city officials embraced a federal court order requiring dozens of reforms to more swiftly provide services like speech therapy, tutoring, or tuition payments for students who can’t be properly served in public schools. But a key question has been surprisingly difficult to answer: Is the city actually providing services to students with disabilities more quickly?New data from independent auditors offers good news and bad news: More families are getting services and other payments within court-mandated deadlines — but the Education Department still blows past the legal timeframes in the vast majority of cases. “There has been some improvement,” said Rebecca Shore, the litigation director at Advocates for Children, which brought a class action lawsuit in 2003 that sparked additional court oversight. At the same time, she said, the city is “nowhere near” full compliance.When families believe they aren’t getting the right special education services they can file a legal complaint against the city that is adjudicated by an administrative judge, known as an impartial hearing officer. Caregivers were on track to file under 16,000 cases last school year, officials said at a City Council hearing in June. When families prevail, the Education Department typically must comply with the order within 35 days, the deadline established in a 2007 legal settlement, unless a hearing officer offers a different timeline.Orders for services like speech therapy, counseling, and transportation were implemented on time in just over 36% of cases according to a recent audit that focused on cases with deadlines in January. That’s up from a compliance rate of 7.2% during the first months of 2023, just before a Manhattan federal judge ordered the city to make a series of reforms to speed up the process.The Education Department provided on time payments — which can offer funding for private school tuition, outside evaluations, and tutoring — in just under 13% of cases in January. That represents a jump from early 2023, when orders were implemented on time in just 4.1% of cases. (The regular quarterly audits are running roughly two years behind; the auditor conducted a narrower one-month review of cases with deadlines in January.) “We have made substantial progress by improving core processes, increasing staffing capacity, and advancing critical technology upgrades, all of which support a stronger and more responsive system,” Education Department spokesperson Onika Richards wrote in an email. She added that the city remains “committed to meeting our obligations” but did not respond to a question about whether the city plans to reach full compliance. In some cases, officials contend that delays stem from families or their advocates not submitting paperwork on time. Delays continue in most casesStill, many families continue to experience delays after receiving a favorable ruling from a hearing officer, according to caregivers and their legal advocates.Nilda Ferrer, a Bronx mom, said she had to wait for the Education Department to line up transportation for her teenage daughter, who has autism and anxiety and struggled with claustrophobia. Her bus ride to a private school in New Jersey, which she attends at no cost because there isn’t an appropriate public school for her, sometimes stretched roughly two hours, Ferrer said.Bronx mom Nilda Ferrer and her 17-year-old daughter, Nilda.After unsuccessfully lobbying for the city to find a more manageable transportation option, she filed a legal complaint seeking a taxi service with help from a lawyer at Legal Services NYC. She was thrilled when the family won the case last December. “I thought that that would be the end of it,” said Ferrer, who works as a home health aide. Instead, it took weeks for the city to implement the service in response to the order. Her daughter wound up missing school as a result, compounding existing struggles with school refusal. (Citing privacy concerns, city Education Department officials declined to comment on the case.)The family will likely have to file another legal complaint this coming school year, as the city did not include the taxi service on her daughter’s special education learning plan. “Now we have to fight it all over again,” Ferrer said. “It doesn’t make sense to me because her situation is not changing.”NYC has yet to complete 21 court-ordered reformsIt remains to be seen whether the city will continue making progress on implementing special education orders more quickly.Officials have been slow to comply with the 2023 order requiring the city to modernize its special education implementation system, after a court-appointed special master found it relied on antiquated technology and manual data entry. City officials have yet to complete 21 of the 51 reforms required under the 2023 federal court order, according to a special master report released last month, including a technology overhaul of a case management system that missed its March launch date and does not currently have a timeline for completion.David Irwin of Thru Consulting LLC, the court-appointed special master, credited the city with hiring staff, committing resources, and making some technological progress, including launching a customer service portal for families and their attorneys that offers case information. “The leadership in DOE is very engaged in this,” Irwin said, noting that he meets with Chancellor Kamar Samuels every month. Still, city officials are simultaneously trying to revise some of the requirements that stretch back to a 2007 court settlement, arguing the terms of that agreement are outdated.The Education Department is pushing to loosen the 35-day legal window, according to a recent court filing. They want to exclude certain private school cases from the court settlement’s requirements, including timelines and auditing rules. And they are pushing to scale back the independent audits that measure their performance, such as assessing only a sample of cases for timeliness, in part because the audits are expensive and delayed. The auditing firm cost the city $6.6 million in 2025 alone. Lawyers representing families, including Shore of Advocates for Children, criticized those proposals in a court filing.“Rather than focusing on improving its implementation rates,” the lawyers wrote, “the DOE is asking this Court for shortcuts.”Alex Zimmerman is a senior reporter for Chalkbeat New York, covering NYC public schools. Contact Alex at azimmerman@chalkbeat.org.

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MILWAUKEE  — State Rep. Francesca Hong, Democratic candidate for governor of Wisconsin, looked out at a crowd of 1,300 supporters. Her earliest two were in the very front.  “My parents chose Wisconsin,” Hong said at a rally here this month. “They chose to follow their ambition because they knew that this state could be a […]

Senators headed for the exits in the predawn hours Saturday, ending for now a crushing standoff over President Donald Trump's demands that they stay in session to pass a strict proof-of-citizenship voting bill before the summer recess. The post U.S. Senators head for the exits without meeting Trump’s demands for voting bill appeared first on InDepthNH.org.

An attorney for former Western New Mexico University President Joseph Shepard on Monday asked a judge to undo a prior ruling that shielded the state auditor and several state lawmakers from his lawsuit that alleges they colluded to force him out of the job.

As students prepare to return to class, U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon is asking Virginia’s college and university presidents and governing boards to review how they operate and make changes, with a specific focus on whether universities are delivering affordable, high-quality education while maintaining free speech, academic standards, and accountability to the public. McMahon […]

Ministerul român de Externe respinge afirmațiile oficialul rus care a acuzat România că acordă ajutor direct militar și logistic Ucrainei după achiziționarea portului Giurgiulești din Republica Moldova, transmite vineri purtătorul de cuvânt al MAE, Andrei Țărnea.

(The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker says state officials are working with local law enforcement after 56 decomposing bodies were found at a Chicago funeral home. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office said it took jurisdiction of the remains after the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation suspended the license of South Chicago Chapel’s owner. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said he is listening to IDFPR about the funeral home’s processes. “We need to know whether this had something to do with monitoring, had to do with licensing, or it just had to do with really bad actors who were hiding what they were doing,” Pritzker said at a bill-signing event in Chicago on Friday. Illinois DFPR Secretary Mario Treto Jr. said his agency licenses and regulates funeral directors, but it does not regulate funeral homes or crematoriums. “As evident in this case, once evidence of misconduct by a licensed professional was identified, IDFPR acted swiftly and decisively within our jurisdiction to suspend the funeral director’s license,” Treto said in a statement released on Friday evening. Treto said the agency suspended South Chicago Chapel owner Johanna Morgan’s funeral director license last week. Johanna and Clark Morgan also operated a Chicago Heights crematory that was shut down by the Illinois comptroller’s office last year, after bodies were found to be improperly stored and hundreds of cremated remains had not been returned to their families. Heights Crematory was the target of legislation introduced this year by state Rep. Anthony DeLuca, D-Chicago Heights. “You may recall last summer a real tragedy at a crematory that was located in Chicago Heights, and it prompted this legislation,” DeLuca said. Pritzker signed House Bill 4695 on June 26 after both chambers of the state legislature passed it unanimously during the spring. “One of the most significant aspects of this is that, under current language, you can cremate the human remains at convenience, and this would require within 30 days,” DeLuca said. The legislation takes effect Jan. 1. Comptroller Susana Mendoza said in a statement it was “infuriating” to hear that the Chicago Heights operators “did the same thing” in Chicago. A statement from Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle’s office said the medical examiner’s office is working to reunite family members and loved ones of decedents whose remains were stored at South Chicago Chapel.

وەزارەتی جەنگی ئەمەریکا، ئەمڕۆ دووشەممە ناوی بنکەی ئاسمانی هاوبەشی چارسلتنی لە ویلایەتی کارۆلاینای باشوور گۆڕی بۆ بنکەی ئاسمانی هاوبەشی لینزی گراهام، وەک ڕێزلێنان لە خزمەتی سەربازیی گراهام و تەرخانکردنی ژیانی بۆ هاوکاری سوپا. مەڕاسیمەکە بە ئامادەبوونی وەزیری جەنگ، پیت هێگسێت و چەندین کاربەدەستی حکومی و سیناتۆر دارلین گراهام، خوشکی لینزی گراهام، کە بەشێوەیەکی کاتی لەپۆستەکەی ئەودا کاردەکات، بەڕێوەچوو. سناتۆر دارلین گراهام، کە سەرۆک ترامپ پشتگیری دەکات، بڕیایری داوە کە خۆی بۆ کورسییەکەی...

“Meu objetivo é o resgate da história de Osasco. Isso é uma luta que vou levar até o último dia da minha vida”, afirmou o comerciante e fotógrafo Hagop Koulkdjian Neto, em entrevista concedida à Agência Mural em 2014.  O fotógrafo e comerciante morreu na última sexta-feira (7) aos 68 anos e manteve a promessa, […] O post Hagop Garagem: o morador de Osasco que se tornou um guardião da história da cidade apareceu primeiro em Agência Mural.

پرزیدنت ترامپ اعلام کرد آمریکا در واکنش به درخواست غرامت رژیم ایران، در مذاکرات آینده خواستار پرداخت غرامت توسط جمهوری اسلامی خواهد شد.

یک مقام ارشد اطلاعات نظامی اوکراین می‌گوید روسیه با سرعتی بیشتر از پیش‌بینی‌های اولیه در حال توسعه شبکه اینترنت ماهواره‌ای خود، مشابه سامانه «استارلینک»، است، و قصد دارد تا سال ۲۰۲۷ نزدیک به ۳۰۰ ماهواره را در مدار زمین قرار دهد.