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法國世界報周二關注中國的一起社會抗爭事件。這一事件涉及107名入職不久的中國年輕大學畢業生以及中國汽車零部件巨頭星宇。星宇試圖解僱107名剛入職的年輕大學畢業生，可這些年輕的大學畢業生勇於抗爭，最終讓星宇低了頭。星宇因此陷入一系列麻煩，原本在香港上市的計畫也受到威脅。

法國央行周二將2026年法國經濟增長預期下調了0.1個百分點，目前的預計是增長0.4%。上星期四，法國國家統計與經濟研究所（Insee）預計的2026年法國經濟增長率也是0.4%。不過，雖然數字相同，但解讀卻不同。

Mark your calendar for Fallidays, which is scheduled for Sept. 26 and 27 this year and includes a variety of fun family activities The post Celebrate the season with Fallidays at Silver Bell Square appeared first on Good Info Newswire.

Dartmouth Health (DH) notified 124 employees today that their positions have been eliminated in addition to the cancellation of 303 open positions from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Dartmouth Hitchcock Clinics Southern Region. The post Dartmouth Health announces staff reductions appeared first on InDepthNH.org.

OKLAHOMA CITY – Residents of a drying up waterfront community expressed outrage Tuesday after a state agency allowed an unpermitted dam to remain upstream of their lake. After the meeting, one of the dam’s owners, former state Senate President Pro Tem Glenn Coffee, offered the residents $100,000 if they could raise $300,000 for seed money […]

Minnesotans bought over $150 million worth of recreational cannabis products in the first year of sales at state-licensed stores, the state’s Office of Cannabis Management said in a press release Tuesday. The state’s 90,000 registered medical cannabis patients also bought over $100 million of medicinal weed, adding to a total of at least $250 million […]

Watchdog nonprofits argued Gov. Henry McMaster's deployment went beyond his powers in state law, but his attorneys disagreed.

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 is ratcheting up restrictions on students’ access to YouTube on school-issued devices, education officials told City Council members on Tuesday.The disclosure came just one day after Council members Shekar Krishnan and Eric Dinowitz called on the city’s Education Department to restrict the video-sharing platform in schools, among other demands to restrict classroom technology.“We heard everyone loud and clear,” Scott Strickland, the department’s deputy chief information officer, said at a City Council oversight hearing on Tuesday focused on technology use in schools. He said the YouTube restrictions took effect Sept. 9, the day before students returned to classrooms. Now, students can’t access the platform on school-issued Chromebooks or iPads in classrooms or at home, Strickland said. First Deputy Chancellor Danielle Giunta suggested the department would allow access to YouTube for “a very limited educational purpose.” The only exception is videos teachers share through Google Classroom as part of their lessons, a department spokesperson said.The Education Department’s previous policy was to only allow access to YouTube at schools whose principals had requested it, Strickland said at a council hearing earlier this year. The announcement comes two weeks after Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveiled a broader tech policy that generally bars individual screen use before third grade and recommends screen time limits of 30 minutes in grades 3-5 and 45 minutes in grades 6-8. Officials also banned student-facing generative artificial intelligence tools from preschool through eighth grade. The decision to restrict YouTube reflects a growing skepticism of education technology tools that has swept the country. It also reflects a remarkable pivot: Under Mamdani, the Education Department is increasingly open to banning products and tools that were common in public school classrooms. Two years ago, former schools Chancellor David Banks said that AI would “revolutionize” the school system. (He has also praised Mamdani’s AI policy.) “Banning YouTube is a good start,” said Dinowitz, who represents the northwest Bronx and chairs City Council’s education committee. “We must also ban gamified learning, ensure that the use of any digital technology is supported by research, provide educators with professional learning, and move back to hand-written state assessments.” He also called for a stronger digital literacy curriculum.The lawmakers argued that open access to YouTube could easily be misused by students. But they suggested teachers should be allowed to use the platform more narrowly to show content related to their lessons. “I failed to see the educational value of allowing students that kind of access to YouTube for their own passive screen time,” Krishnan, who represents Queens, said during Tuesday’s hearing. He noted public schools in Los Angeles do not allow student-led access to YouTube. New York City officials said they will be on the lookout for problems with the new policy.“If we find reports or start hearing about workarounds, we’re going to go after that strongly,” Strickland said.A spokesperson for Google, YouTube’s parent company, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Education officials also said they were instructing schools to use paper-and-pencil tests when possible.Still, there are exceptions to that directive. City officials require schools to assess students three times a year in reading and math, which are typically conducted digitally and are exempt from the screen time limits. Students in grades 3-8 also must take state exams digitally.Alex Zimmerman is a senior reporter for Chalkbeat New York, covering NYC public schools. Contact Alex at azimmerman@chalkbeat.org.

One in six North Carolina counties is a maternity care desert, with no birthing facilities or obstetric clinicians, according to a new report from the March of Dimes. About 61,000 women ages 18 to 44 live in maternity care deserts, and 4,000 babies are born each year to mothers who live in maternity care deserts. […]

Another planned debate between Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany and Democratic Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley has been canceled as Tiffany declines to participate in more than one debate ahead of the Nov. 3 election.  The planned debate was jointly sponsored by the Milwaukee County Intergovernmental Cooperation Council, TMJ4 and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and […]

Paige will return to City Hall nearly a decade after retiring, following a 6-0 vote on Tuesday to appoint her interim city clerk. Bonnie Paige returns to Stockton City Hall as interim city clerk is a story from Stocktonia News, a rigorous and factual newsroom covering Greater Stockton, California. Please consider making a charitable contribution to support our journalism.

A review of three close primaries by the Rhode Island Board of Elections morning did not change the winner in any of them, Miguel Nunez, elections board director, told the panel Tuesday. A rereading of flash drives holding vote totals from ballot counting machines concluded with identical margins of victory for Republican gubernatorial nominee Aaron […]

Michigan Rep. Jay DeBoyer (R-Clay Township), the Republican lieutenant governor nominee and running mate to U.S. Rep. John James (R-Shelby Township) faced backlash from Democrats and reproductive rights groups after he floated the idea of re-introducing limits on abortion in Michigan via a constitutional convention. At a news conference Tuesday, Michigan Senate Majority Leader Winnie […]

Hoy numerosas agrupaciones ambientales, sindicales, sociales y partidarias se convocaron frente al Ministerio de Economía para denunciar el llamado a licitación de AySA por parte del gobierno nacional que pretende transformar un servicio público en un negociado de unos pocos, en oposición a las normativas nacionales e internacionales que declaran al agua como un derecho […]

The InSight Take: Colombia’s Total Peace: What Went Wrong and What Comes Next? Colombia’s armed groups nearly doubled in size during Gustavo Petro’s Total Peace plan. Managing Editor Deborah Bonello and Co-Founder Jeremy McDermott examine what it actually delivered, and whether President Abelardo de la Espriella’s militarized turn will do any better, when history suggests otherwise. The post The InSight Take: Colombia’s Total Peace: What Went Wrong and What Comes Next? appeared first on InSight Crime.

Republicans allege Michigan rejects more conservative petition signatures and takes longer to review them under Democratic Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson. Here are the facts.

(The Center Square) – U.S. Sens. John Fetterman and Dave McCormick want answers from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services about the cancellation of research grants at a pair of Pennsylvania institutions. On Monday, McCormick’s office shared a letter the senators penned to department Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nearly one month ago about the cancellation of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ, grants. McCormick, a Republican, and Fetterman, a Democrat, wrote that researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, known as CHOP, and the University of Pittsburgh, were notified on July 15 about the cancellation of funding for ongoing, multi-year projects. “These cancellations are affecting awards that have undergone peer review and have received prior-year funding,” McCormick and Fetterman write in the letter to Kennedy. “Abruptly ending these multi-year projects, after substantial federal investment, risks wasting taxpayer resources while disrupting research, eliminating jobs, and delaying innovations to improve patient care.” The senators said that they appreciate the department’s commitment to “ensuring federally funded research promotes scientific rigor and delivers meaningful value for taxpayers,” however, they also “believe these objectives should be balanced with consideration of projects that have already undergone review and received federal funding.” “Careful stewardship of federal research spending is important to maintaining public trust in our nation’s research enterprise,” the two Pennsylvania lawmakers write to Kennedy. As the department implements reforms, McCormick and Fetterman believe that it is “imperative that changes are carried out in a manner that preserves the value of existing federal investments.” “To that end, the recent decision to end continuation funding for ongoing AHRQ grants may create uncertainty around federal research support, making it harder for institutions to plan long-term projects, retain experienced researchers, and pursue future scientific breakthroughs,” McCormick and Fetterman said. “Over time, this instability risks weakening our nation’s leadership in scientific research.” McCormick and Fetterman have requested a briefing from the department by Sept. 25 on its approach to those funding decisions. In that briefing, the senators want to see the criteria the department uses to determine which AHRQ grants will be canceled and which will continue, and how it considers prior federal investment, project progress, and potential disruptions to research and personnel when making these decisions. They also want to know whether affected institutions have opportunities to seek reconsideration or otherwise mitigate the impact of terminated funding, and the plans to reallocate funds that would otherwise have supported the affected grants, as well as the department’s long-term plan for AHRQ and the role it plays in supporting research. The letter was shared by McCormick’s office less than one week after he took the stage at the Republican Party’s midterm convention in Texas, where he made the case that President Donald Trump and the GOP have delivered for Americans. Fetterman also made a video appearance at that same convention to introduce McCormick. Although McCormick is an ally of the president, he has voiced concerns in the past about potential cuts the president would make to research. In late May, during a visit to Penn Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania alongside National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, McCormick touted the impact the agency has had on the Keystone State and called for increased funding. And during a telephone town hall in June 2025, McCormick expressed concern about potential NIH grant cuts from the Department of Government Efficiency. His office also noted that he and Fetterman, in May, urged NIH to move “quickly to obligate congressionally approved FY2026 grant funding, citing the importance of federal research investments to Pennsylvania jobs, scientific breakthroughs, and U.S. leadership in biomedical research.”

PISA recoge que un 22% del estudiantado de 15 años no está en el curso que debería por su edad, pese a los discursos de que la Lomloe "regala los aprobados"; además de la prevalencia, España se distingue de otros países porque esta cuestionada práctica afecta especialmente al alumnado de origen humildeEspaña se desploma en PISA y los alumnos tienen “dificultades” con textos de más de 400 palabras por culpa de las pantallas Frenazo. Pese a la Lomloe, que supuestamente regala los aprobados, pese a un discurso muy establecido que sostiene que todo el mundo pasa de curso, la repetición está hoy en España igual que hace tres años, según se desprende de los microdatos de PISA. “La tendencia de disminución de la repetición se ha detenido: el 22% del alumnado de 15 años ha repetido, igual que en 2022, una vez se han levantado las medidas excepcionales de la repetición aplicadas en 2020 y 2021”, explica el informe Todo lo que debes saber de PISA 2025 sobre equidad, de EsadeEcPol y Save the Children. En España se repite más del doble que en la OCDE. Y hoy, como ayer, lo hacen hasta cinco veces más los pobres que los ricos. Incluso en igualdad de condiciones. La práctica castiga a quien más ayuda necesita. (function(){function e(){window.addEventListener(`message`,function(e){if(e.data[`datawrapper-height`]!==void 0){var t=document.querySelectorAll(`iframe`);for(var n in e.data[`datawrapper-height`])for(var r=0,i;i=t[r];r++)if(i.contentWindow===e.source){var a=e.data[`datawrapper-height`][n]+`px`;i.style.height=a}}})}e()})(); “Ese estancamiento importa en términos de equidad, y no solo de nivel: la repetición no se reparte por igual entre grupos sociales, sino que se concentra de forma mayoritaria en el alumnado de menor nivel socioeconómico, de modo que cada punto que no baja recae principalmente sobre él. (...) España mantiene un mecanismo que penaliza de manera desproporcionada a quienes parten con mayor desventaja”, valoran los autores. Concentrado por abajo Poco parece haber cambiado con la repetición en los últimos años pese a los esfuerzos por reducir un indicador en el que España sale malparada desde hace años, triplicando las tasas de los países de su entorno o equiparables por condiciones socioeconómicas, según reflexionan Lucía Cobreros y Lucas Gortazar, de EsadeEcPol, y Mar Gairal y Carmela del Moral, de Save the Children, en el texto. En España se repite mucho y repiten los mismos. “Todo el exceso [de repetidores] se concentra en la mitad baja de la escala social: el cuartil alto [el 25% más adinerado] repite en torno al 7%, lo mismo que su equivalente de la OCDE, mientras que el cuartil socioeconómico bajo repite el 40%, frente al 16 % internacional”, explican los autores. (function(){function e(){window.addEventListener(`message`,function(e){if(e.data[`datawrapper-height`]!==void 0){var t=document.querySelectorAll(`iframe`);for(var n in e.data[`datawrapper-height`])for(var r=0,i;i=t[r];r++)if(i.contentWindow===e.source){var a=e.data[`datawrapper-height`][n]+`px`;i.style.height=a}}})}e()})(); Y no solo el diferente bagaje sociocultural, los recursos en casa o el apoyo familiar, las razones habituales detrás de las diferencias de rendimiento entre clases, explican esta diferencia. Porque un estudiante de un hogar humilde tiene muchas más posibilidades de repetir curso que uno de familia acomodada aunque ambos tengan exactamente los mismos conocimientos, según recoge el informe. “En España es cinco veces más probable [que repita un estudiante con menos recursos], frente a 4,5 en 2022, 2,3 en la OCDE-35 y 2,7 en la UE. Y el contraste con países que también repiten mucho es elocuente: Bélgica se queda en 3,1, Italia en 2,8, Francia en 2,0, Alemania en 1,5 y Países Bajos en 1,4. El problema español no es solo que se repita más, sino que la repetición se reproduce según la escala socioeconómica, incluso entre alumnado con resultados similares en lectura y ciencias”, describe el texto. (function(){function e(){window.addEventListener(`message`,function(e){if(e.data[`datawrapper-height`]!==void 0){var t=document.querySelectorAll(`iframe`);for(var n in e.data[`datawrapper-height`])for(var r=0,i;i=t[r];r++)if(i.contentWindow===e.source){var a=e.data[`datawrapper-height`][n]+`px`;i.style.height=a}}})}e()})(); Aunque no es el objeto del informe, Cobreros explica que “el capital cultural de las familias tiene un impacto en la repetición”. Y argumenta: “Las de capital alto, si su hijo va mal, buscarán remedios. Clases particulares, irán a hablar con los docentes, pondrán todo lo que esté en su mano para intentar que sus hijos no repitan”. El estudiante menos favorecido no tendrá esa suerte. Poco efecto de la Lomloe El texto destaca el, al menos de momento, poco efecto que ha tenido la Lomloe en este apartado, pese a que es uno de los objetivos que se marcó. Y también pese al discurso, instalado entre ciertos círculos, sociales, políticos (del PP) e incluso docentes, de que con la nueva norma “se regalan los aprobados” y “todo el mundo pasa de curso”. Es cierto que la ley eliminó de sus postulados la repetición automática vinculada a x repeticiones y ahora la decisión depende más del claustro docente, de que piense que un alumno está capacitado o no para afrontar el siguiente curso. Pero la estadística es tozuda y señala dos cosas: hoy se repite lo mismo que hace tres años y desde 2015, mucho antes de la Lomloe (aprobada en 2020) prácticamente no hay ninguna comunidad autónoma, tampoco aquellas donde gobierna el PP desde entonces, que tenga menos de un 15% de alumnado que ha superado la ESO con asignaturas suspendidas. Es y ha sido una práctica habitual, dicen los datos. “La cohorte evaluada en 2025 es la primera que ha cursado prácticamente toda la ESO bajo la nueva ley y su desarrollo normativo, que restringen la repetición a supuestos excepcionales y refuerzan las medidas de refuerzo y apoyo como alternativa. El estancamiento sugiere, por tanto, que la reducción [de la repetición] de 2018-2022 respondió a las medidas extraordinarias de promoción adoptadas durante la pandemia más que a un cambio duradero en las prácticas de los centros: retirada la excepción, la tasa vuelve a estabilizarse en niveles muy altos”, describe el informe. Sin explicaciones El texto, más descriptivo que interpretativo, ahonda en algunas de las cuestiones relacionadas con la (des)igualdad entre estudiantes que más llamaron la atención de una edición de PISA que ha supuesto un varapalo para el sistema educativo español. La brecha entre el alumnado mejor posicionado socioeconómicamente y el más humilde se ha cerrado y España es de los mejores países del mundo en ese indicador. La mala noticia es que lo hace “por las razones equivocadas”, a base de que todos estén peor, explica el texto: los (pocos) que mejor rendían han caído más, acercándose a los que tenían más problemas, que aun así también caen. Esto último es una rareza española para la que los investigadores no tienen una explicación. Encontrarla está en la lista de deberes a futuro, explica Cobreros, entre otras razones porque “es habitual que lo que afecta al alumnado de nivel socioeconómico alto hoy afecte al de nivel socioeconómico bajo mañana”. En ese sentido, este PISA sería un aviso a navegantes para posteriores ediciones, advierte el informe.

New Mexico state agencies failed to spend roughly a quarter of the millions of dollars in opioid settlement funds they received in the 2024 fiscal year, according to a new report from the New Mexico State Auditor’s Office.

Los blancos tiraron un 0-2 con una segunda parte horrorosa y solo Espí en el descuento evitó que su desconexión terminase en tropiezo.