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The PSC's "From Recovery to Resilience" summit in Biloxi on Thursday came as Hurricane Isaias headed toward Mississippi's Coast.

Centro-esquerda tem ao menos 10 cadeiras no parlamento estadual; bolsonarismo recua de 13 para 11; centrão supera as 25 Fonte

A Constituição Federal acaba de completar 38 anos e marca o mais longevo período de estabilidade democrática da história do nosso país. Gerações inteiras passaram a exercer direitos que hoje parecem indissociáveis da vida, tal qual a conhecemos.  O hino nacional brasileiro tem razão ao dizer que “o penhor dessa igualdade conseguimos conquistar com braços […] Fonte

La crema para definir rizos de L'Oréal Professionnel que ayuda a conseguir una melena con movimiento por 20 euros.

Husky mix Splash is trained by Arlington Water Utilities to find leaks that might otherwise go undetected.

Pesquisa Datafolha divulgada nesta quinta-feira (8) mostra o candidato à Presidência da República pelo PL, o senador Flávio Bolsonaro, na liderança do segundo turno das eleições com 49% das intenções de voto. O presidente e candidato à reeleição, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), aparece com 45%. Eleitores que pretendem votar em branco, nulo ou […] Fonte

During a multi-day trip to the Middle East, U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy said he was denied entry to the largest U.S. military base in the region.

En 2025, un oso hormiguero gigante (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) fue registrado en la Reserva Natural Alma Guaraní, en la provincia argentina de Corrientes, tras cuatro décadas de ausencia. Se trata del primer avistamiento documentado de este mamífero en la zona desde 1986. Según una investigación publicada en la revista Restoration Ecology, el animal es probablemente un […]

USA Today Co. executives are revealing new details about a controversial deal with Palantir. In a joint interview with Fast Company’s Alex Pasternack, three executives from the country’s largest newspaper chain explained why they moved ahead with the Palantir deal despite major opposition from their own employees. Mike Reed, the chairman and CEO of USA...

An arts-focused school in Meridian is expanding to serve high schoolers, and a new CTE-focused school is coming to Pocatello.

This story was originally published on Oct. 8 by The City Reporter. Sign up here to get the latest stories from The City Reporter delivered to you each morning.It’s become a ritual for many New York City teachers: Head to a 35,000-square-foot warehouse on Northern Boulevard in Queens, take the elevator to the third floor, grab a shopping cart and don’t leave until it’s filled to the brim with classroom supplies — all for free. Every first Thursday of the month, the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs treats teachers to the spree, courtesy of a little-known city program called Materials for the Arts, or MFTA. While the city Department of Education sets aside money for teachers’ choice allotments — or reimbursements for each teacher to get back what they spend annually on their classroom supplies — that money doesn’t always go as far as the students need, some teachers say. Teachers can get reimbursed up to $220 this school year, the United Federation of Teachers union announced last month. The purchasing period ends on Jan. 8, 2027, while the so-called “late-night” shopping sprees — between 4 and 7 p.m. — run through the end of the school year in June. That’s led some teachers to gather money to buy supplies via crowdfunding platforms, such as GoFundMe and DonorsChoose. Others depend on MFTA’s teachers’ shopping sprees. The materials come from local theaters’ and schools’ old set designs and props, manufacturers’ discarded products and individual donors. MFTA accepts donations from the public every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., with a loading dock on site for large drop-offs. Alain Codio, who teaches high schoolers at an architecture- and design-focused school in Williamsburg, said the program is especially useful for afterschool programs that help kids experiment with the arts. While shopping for his school’s upcoming production of “Shrek The Musical,” Codio told The City Reporter he’s come to MFTA for almost 10 years.“Every school has a certain budget. So for us to be able to run almost 20-something programs in our school, and for Materials to provide a little bit of mixture for every project … it’s less stressful,” Codio added. For the school’s manufacturing club, Codio picked up tools for model making and laser engraving; for the game design club, PlayStation games; for the school’s Valentine’s Day sip-and-paint (“apple cider, of course”), paint and easels. ‘Democratizing art supplies’The warehouse is lined with yellow buckets full of knickknacks, including office supplies, arts and crafts and, toward the back, couches and tables. The warehouse isn’t open to the public, but serves New York City public school teachers from more than 1,800 schools, and some arts nonprofits, at no cost. For some, that means paper and pencils. But last Thursday, plastic dinosaur masks — the kind that smell like latex and go over your whole head — were a hot commodity among the city’s public school educators. “One fun thing is when we get something, sometimes we get 1,000 of it, so we don’t just get one top hat,” said John Cloud Kaiser, MFTA education and gallery director. “We get 1,000 top hats.” In one cart on the check-out line, more than a dozen dinosaur heads lay stacked next to six rolls of wrapping paper and a pop-up book about architecture. “​​We really believe in this idea of democratizing art supplies,” Kaiser said. “So this idea that everything is an art supply, and in that way, everyone’s an artist.”Peter Thompson, who teaches 11th- and 12th-graders on the Upper West Side, said he once snagged candelabras for a teaching unit on Gothic literature where the class read “Frankenstein.” On another run, he loaded his car up with fake trees to use as props for his school’s production of “Macbeth.” “I was lucky enough to learn about it in my first year, and I’m in year 10 now, so I’ve been praising it ever since,” Thompson told The City Reporter. His cart was loaded up with copy paper and index cards.

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A campanha do presidente Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) busca reorganizar sua estratégia de comunicação para o segundo turno das eleições presidenciais de 2026. Depois de ficar em segundo lugar na primeira etapa da disputa, o candidato reuniu influenciadores digitais, jovens lideranças e parlamentares eleitos para fortalecer sua presença nas redes sociais. A iniciativa, […] Fonte

This year, Sue Hartman was singled out by peers for excellence. But the Republican clerk says trying to convince her mostly Republican neighbors that elections are fair has taken its toll.

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Did you know search engines like Google are changing the way you see news? Keep Chalkbeat’s valuable education coverage at the top of your feeds by clicking here and checking the box next to our name.Launchpad Philly opened in 2022 with what seemed like a winning formula. Through the technology training program, high school students and recent graduates would learn coding skills, build a portfolio, get personalized support and mentorship, and then land a job. When it first recruited students for its program, those with software engineering skills “were in mass demand,” said Dannyelle Austin, the organization’s executive director. But the growth of AI scrambled Launchpad Philly’s approach while its first cohort was still in training.The tech industry’s job market has transformed in just the past year, with entry level jobs in particular drying up. Companies have cut thousands of jobs in favor of relying on AI to do basic tasks. Even those with college degrees in computer science are struggling to land employment. That makes the outlook particularly difficult for the young people Launchpad Philly works with. They’re largely public school graduates without college degrees. Now, the organization is overhauling its curriculum and providing more direct work experience in an effort to keep the door to well-paid tech jobs open. But it’s not easy.“It was like, oh, actually we don’t know what the jobs are, what the skills are” that help people get hired, Austin said.Teaching young people to code used to be a reliable way to open doors to high-salary jobs. Programs cropped up across the country, including Launchpad, to help connect youth with the careers the industry promised. Starting in the 2010s, they seemed to work. A research review from last year found coding bootcamps generally helped participants land jobs. Even programs targeted at youth and young adults reported high rates of employment for those who completed training, with many earning a salary of nearly $100,000 soon after.But young people like Daniel Johnson are now experiencing something very different. Johnson, 20, started training with Launchpad Philly right after he graduated high school in 2024. Like all participants, he got paid, with some earning up to $18,000 over the course of their time in the program, which is designed to last up to two and a half years.Johnson, who’s in the program’s second cohort, now has a portfolio of work and strong references. He applies to jobs about once a week. But the market for his skills seems to be nonexistent.“I never get a single email back,” he said. “I don’t even think I’ve received a rejection.”Coding skills now less valuable in job marketWhen Johnson started out with Launchpad, AI tools were far less widespread. Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding assistant that now dominates the industry, hadn’t been released yet. Other AI coding tools, like ChatGPT, weren’t so reliable. At the time, Launchpad’s curriculum focused more on hard coding skills and problem solving. Participants would learn the Python programming language along with key workplace skills, like how to receive feedback and collaborate on complicated projects. Those lessons still feel relevant, Johnson said. But he’s constantly using AI now as well. “You’ve gotta be able to work in today’s world,” he said. He’s hoping to land a job in software development, user-experience design, backend development, or development operations — jobs where skill and comfort using AI now seem essential.Launchpad trains around 70 students at a time, with the majority in an introductory program aimed at high school seniors. During the first year, they spend weekday afternoons at Launchpad’s Center City office. Around a dozen recent graduates participate in a second year of more intensive training and internships.Last year, it graduated its first cohort of 12 students from the intensive program. But those students didn’t get much training on AI, and getting full-time work afterwards was difficult, Austin said. Now, a year later, three are working full-time, two are in college, and the rest are piecing together freelance and part-time work.That cohort graduated at a time when AI was changing everything, Austin said. “We saw how hard it was” for them to land jobs, she said.So Launchpad staff began reworking much of its curriculum and looked through job descriptions to get a sense of what employers wanted. AI skills were important, but so was experience keeping data safe and managing workflows with more technology in the mix. Participants now can get multiple certifications to show they have experience using generative AI and project management skills along with coding. Lessons focus more on translating technical tools for people in other business roles, rather than just on coding. Most instructors are developers or technologists who also have experience working with youth. Another major change was the decision to open Launchpad Inc., which functions as a kind of business side of the organization and creates work opportunities for students. Local companies and nonprofits hire Launchpad as its developer. Then Launchpad staffs those projects with program participants. It only offers part-time work, but pays $20 per hour.Recent high school graduates learn AI skills at Launchpad Philly to help them land tech jobs.Demitri DeLuca-Lyons, 20, graduated from Launchpad’s official program last year, but he’s stuck around as a developer to work on the projects the organization brings in. His hope is to get a full-time tech job one day. But he’s skeptical that the job market will rebound to offer more entry-level positions to people like him. He doesn’t have a college degree, and describes himself as “anti-college.” “A lot of my strategy kind of hinged on trying to stay here as long as I can to build up my work experience,” said Deluca-Lyons. “That way I can put on my resume that I’ve worked at a place for five years. That might get me through the doors.”Young people hope AI skills lead to jobsLaunchpad wants to help Philly youth land good jobs. But to Chip Linehan, CEO of the nonprofit Building 21 that oversees Launchpad, there’s another reason for it to exist: Half of Philly’s public school graduates don’t go on to college once they get their diplomas. And getting help with training, applying for positions, and networking after high school graduation can be extremely tricky, he said. That was something he saw up close at the public high school Building 21 operates in Philly. Launchpad employs a social worker to help participants develop the interpersonal skills they’ll need for the workplace, and provides mentorship to recent graduates. Building 21 offers Launchpad organizational support, but the program relies on grant funding and money from city and state career programs for youth. Bianca Ruiz, 18, joined Launchpad recently and is participating in the program’s new curriculum.She’s loved technology since she was young and dreams of working in digital forensics. She knows she’ll have to get more training for that and likely a college degree. But for now, she’s excited to be fleshing out her tech skills, and she’s not so afraid of the job hunt that comes next. She’s become well-versed in what AI is capable of — but she’s also aware that it can’t do the critical thinking, relationship building, and decision-making that makes real humans valuable.“I feel like AI could take a portion of my job,” Ruiz said. “But I don’t think it could take the whole thing.”Rebecca Redelmeier is a reporter at Chalkbeat Philadelphia. She writes about public schools, early childhood education, and issues that affect students, families, and educators across Philadelphia. Contact Rebecca at rredelmeier@chalkbeat.org.

Cientos de personas recorrieron Madrid desde la Puerta del Sol hasta el Congreso para homenajear a Maricarmen, la mujer de 87 años cuyo desahucio se convirtió en símbolo de la crisis de vivienda en España.

Residents of Northern Bahr el Ghazal State say they want to elect leaders who can The post N. Bahr el Ghazal residents put public services on election agenda appeared first on Radio Tamazuj.

Twice a month the NC STEM Center provides an e-update on what’s happening in STEM, and their latest edition is now available. The post NC STEM Center e-update: Maritime accelerator, higher ed, NSTA awards and genius grants appeared first on EdNC.