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El socio minoritario alerta del riesgo de bloqueo político y reclama a Sánchez cambios profundos, pero La Moncloa apuesta por un encuentro discreto que rebaja el alcance de las exigencias para encauzar la crisis.

Since his inauguration in January, President Donald Trump has issued executive orders directing the Energy Department to end support for wind and solar generation and clear the way for new nuclear development.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Indiana’s free daily newsletter to keep up with Indianapolis Public Schools, Marion County’s township districts, and statewide education news. In a move with potentially profound consequences for Indianapolis education, a state-backed task force has told lawmakers they should establish a new agency to oversee both the city school district and charter schools. The Indianapolis Local Education Alliance voted 8-1 on Wednesday to recommend the creation of the Indianapolis Public Education Corporation. The IPS board as well as boards for individual charters would both report to this new authority. The new agency would consist of nine members appointed by the mayor: three IPS board members, three charter leaders, and three at-large members, all of whom would have to live within IPS boundaries. The new corporation would have the power to impose property taxes, which it would distribute to both charter and IPS schools. It would also manage the district’s buildings and transportation services through its own staff, establish a framework for school accountability, and manage a unified enrollment system. If state lawmakers agree to turn the ILEA’s recommendations into law, the vote would mark a monumental shift in the city’s educational landscape. It would represent a significant loss of power for IPS and a qualified victory for charter supporters, after years of rising conflict between the two sectors. The GOP-run state legislature has become increasingly skeptical of IPS while passing legislation favorable to charters when it comes to issues like property taxes. In addition, the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance voted to restrict the number of charter school authorizers to the mayor’s Office of Education Innovation, the Indiana Charter School Board, and the IPS school board, which this week said it will seek to become a charter authorizer. The recommendations also require all schools to offer transportation to students living within the IPS boundary, and exempt IPS buildings from a state law that requires districts to make unused buildings available to charter schools for the sale or lease price of $1. ILEA member Tina Ahlgren, an IPS parent and teacher, was the sole no vote. The ILEA’s recommendations come amid struggles by both IPS and charters to address structural challenges. The district has been losing students for years. IPS also has significant long-term financial problems as well as underutilized buildings. Charters, meanwhile, have struggled to acquire buildings and provide transportation services as their enrollments have grown, and roughly 1 in 3 Indianapolis charters closed from 2001 to 2023. The ILEA’s recommendation to reduce the power of the IPS board matches the desire among many charter supporters for less power to rest with the elected school board. But supporters of traditional IPS schools have not only opposed efforts to diminish the elected school board; they’ve also pushed for the board to exercise power over charters as well as district-run schools. They’ve criticized the growth of charters, calling for more accountability in that sector, and said that the elected school board should serve as the only charter authorizer. This story will be updated. Amelia Pak-Harvey covers Indianapolis and Lawrence Township schools for Chalkbeat Indiana. Contact Amelia at apak-harvey@chalkbeat.org.

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge Wednesday blocked a policy from the Department of Homeland Security, finding that it violated an appropriations law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to federal facilities that detain immigrants. Judge Jia Cobb rejected the Trump administration’s argument that the new policy doesn’t prevent members of Congress […]

En Tunisie, le quinzième anniversaire de la révolution s'est fêté dans une ambiance particulière ce 17 décembre. À Tunis, alors que des milliers de soutiens du président Kaïs Saïed, dont certains affrétés par bus, se sont rassemblés pour célébrer l'anniversaire avec des slogans pro-pouvoir, un autre rassemblement, dans le sud tunisien, à Gabès, est venu rappeler que beaucoup de revendications de la révolution n'ont jamais abouti, comme les demandes de justice sociale et environnementale.

Are recent gains against the US dollar just a blip – or the start of a new trend? A former Reserve Bank economist explains what to keep an eye on for the year ahead.

For a while, Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse says he’s been hearing a little voice in the back of his head telling him it might be time to step aside. On Wednesday, he announced he’d decided to follow that impulse and would not run for reelection next year in the 4th Congressional District in central […]

ཉིན་ལྟར་ཐོན་བཞིན་པའི་བོད་དང་ཨ་རིའི་གསར་འགྱུར་ཁག་དང་། འཛམ་གླིང་གསར་འགྱུར་ཁག་རྒྱང་སྲིང་ཞུས་པ་ཕུད། དེ་མིན་དམིགས་བསལ་ལེ་ཚན་ཁག་ཅིག་རྒྱང་སྲིང་ཞུ་བཞིན་ཡོད།

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is still in the spotlight, with big changes taking effect and more that could follow.

Tras un opaco inicio en la Copa UC, La Roja Sub 16 logró este miércoles una victoria crucial en su segundo partido del torneo al vencer por 3-1 a su similar de Venezuela. Este resultado no solo le permitió al seleccionado nacional recuperar terreno, sino que también renovó sus esperanzas de avanzar en el Grupo … Continua leyendo "Tras bochorno ante Argentina: La Roja Sub 16 resurge con fuerza al vencer a Venezuela por la Copa UC" The post Tras bochorno ante Argentina: La Roja Sub 16 resurge con fuerza al vencer a Venezuela por la Copa UC appeared first on BioBioChile.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge Wednesday blocked a policy from the Department of Homeland Security, finding that it violated an appropriations law that allows members of Congress to make unannounced oversight visits to federal facilities that detain immigrants. Judge Jia Cobb rejected the Trump administration’s argument that the new policy doesn’t prevent members of Congress […]

El giro migratorio refuerza la estrategia de la primera ministra de Italia, quien ve cada vez más cercana la consolidación de los centros como herramienta, al tiempo que afianza su liderazgo interno y su proyección internacional.

Un escolar de Ourense reclama sentido común en la organización del transporte público para poder llegar a tiempo al colegio. La organización de los servicios públicos debe hacerse pensando en quienes dependen de ellas cada día.

The Louisiana Supreme Court has refused Attorney General Liz Murrill’s request to return a convicted killer to death row, though it doesn’t necessarily derail her plans to challenge a U.S. Supreme Court precedent that declared executing minors was unconstitutional. The defendant in question, Dale Dwayne Craig, was just days away from turning 18 when he […]

Earlier this month, Oregon’s most powerful corporate and political leaders gathered in Portland for the Oregon Business Plan Leadership Summit. The agenda was packed with speeches from CEOs, economists, and policymakers, outlining what sponsors such as Amazon and Google believe Oregon’s future economy should look like. What was missing was impossible to ignore. There was […]

After a year of trimming its finances to try to stave off job cuts, the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority (RIPTA) still faces a nearly $14 million budget deficit under its latest financial plan approved by the agency’s board of directors. RIPTA’s board Thursday voted 7-1 to submit the bus agency’s $158.9 million spending plan […]

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Pangal Andrade y el equipo de El Clan, negaron las acusaciones que salieron este miércoles en la prensa sobre haber encendido fuego en el Parque Nacional Hornopirén, práctica que está penalizada por ley. La noticia la difundió The Clinic, medio que cita a la fiscal Nathalie Yonsson, quien habría recogido los antecedentes de este acto, … Continua leyendo "Pangal Andrade y El Clan niegan haber usado fuego en Parque Nacional: "Nunca se encendió fuego alguno"" The post Pangal Andrade y El Clan niegan haber usado fuego en Parque Nacional: "Nunca se encendió fuego alguno" appeared first on BioBioChile.

Police officers in Putin’s Russia often hide their faces, but Alexey Okopny never did. Over his decades-long career in law enforcement, Okopny became an unlikely public figure in Moscow: an “anti-extremism” officer known for haunting anti-government rallies and monitoring opposition politicians and ordinary protesters alike. Also known for his brutal interrogations, Okopny faced accusations of beating and torturing detainees, and he was widely believed to have had a hand in the 2007 killing of 22-year-old National Bolshevik activist Yury Chervochkin. Nevertheless, he rose to become the deputy head of Moscow’s Anti-Extremism Center (commonly known as Center E). Following Okopny’s death in early December, Meduza spoke to Mediazona editor Dmitry Treshchanin to learn more about the rise of Center E and Okopny’s career trajectory. The following excerpts from that interview have been edited and abridged for clarity.