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Oklahoma’s Supreme Court has paused the implementation of new social studies standards in the state’s schools.

Maduro calificó la actuación de Estados Unidos de “cambio de régimen mediante amenaza militar”, y dijo que Venezuela estaba dispuesta a entablar un diálogo, pero Trump está enviando más fuerza militar al Caribe.

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For the third year, the state delayed AI regulation for disclosing and appealing many automated decisions by the state and companies.

In recent weeks, the Trump administration has ramped up military threats against Venezuela under a purported fight against drug trafficking. Venezuelanalysis staff member José Luis Granados Ceja joined Eugene Puryear and Rania Khalek on Breakthrough News to discuss Washington’s charges, their (absent) legal basis, and the real motivations behind the attacks. The post ‘All About Oil’: Breaking Down US Military Threats and Drug Trafficking Charges appeared first on Venezuelanalysis.

“I’ll take this any day,” says one traveler who found solace on the train from Milwaukee to Chicago — a key route for the state’s Amtrak expansion. The post Ditching cars for rail, Wisconsin Amtrak passengers find accessibility appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

HKE MKE is our annual urban HKE through Riverside Park and the beautiful Milwaukee Rotary Centennial Arboretum. The post Post From Community: Get Ready for HKE MKE! appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

Le 1er août dernier, la RDC et le Rwanda signaient, sous l’égide des États-Unis, un énoncé de principes pour un cadre d’intégration économique régionale, dispositif qui doit encadrer le partenariat économique entre Kinshasa et Kigali qui vient compléter l’accord de paix conclu entre les deux pays à Washington le 27 juin dernier. Alors que l’agence Reuters a évoqué un premier projet de texte dimanche 14 septembre, RFI a pu consulter le document long de 17 pages.

(The Center Square) – Two strikes in Southwest Washington state – Evergreen Public Schools and the La Center School District – are over. Nearly three weeks after the scheduled Aug. 26 start of the school year, students at Evergreen Public Schools returned to classes on Friday, and students in the La Center School District returned to the classroom on Monday. Classes were initially slated to start on Aug. 27. Public School Employees of Washington SEIU Local 1948, which includes paraeducators, custodians, bus drivers, mechanics, security officers, and other non-teaching staff in the Evergreen School District, represented striking workers. Union members negotiated additional compensation for mechanics who participate in further training, and drivers will receive additional pay for time spent preparing buses for state inspection. Teachers were not up for a contract renewal, but joined the support staff union on the picket lines, idling some 22,000 students in the Vancouver-area district. Evergreen Public Schools has 38 schools that employ more than 1,500 teachers, who, on average, earned nearly $112,000 in base pay and additional compensation in the 2023-24 school year, according to the Washington State Fiscal Information website. The Evergreen Public Schools Board of Directors had authorized its legal team to take whatever legal action was necessary to end the strike, including filing a request in Clark County Superior Court for an injunction requiring striking workers to return to work. That became unnecessary when the district and union leaders reached a tentative agreement last Wednesday, and the union voted to accept the offer last Thursday evening. Early Monday afternoon, the Board of Directors held a special meeting to approve the tentative contract agreement and voted to approve an adjusted school calendar to make up for the 12 days that were missed. Students will now attend classes on Nov. 25, the day before Thanksgiving, and will also give up a day during Christmas break and two previously planned days off in January. The last day of the school year will now be June 18, 2026. In the La Center School District, union members sought higher wages to compete with neighboring districts. “Thank you for your patience and understanding during this process. We are looking forward to welcoming students back to their classrooms,” Superintendent Peter Rosenkranz said in a Sept. 11 Facebook post. A Sept. 2 Facebook post from the La Center School District indicated that the district was offering 2.3% raises and step increases. According to Washington State Fiscal Information, teachers in La Center earned an average of more than $98,000 in the 2023-24 school year, including base pay and additional compensation. In La Center, students have eight days to make up because of the strike. Parents posting to Facebook are urging the district to look at alternatives to shortening holiday breaks or lengthening the school year. “Please consider that some families already have reservations booked for spring break and Christmas. Those breaks will be much needed with the added stress this strike has caused. I recommend either making school days longer by 30-60 mins and adding back some of the in-service days,” one parent wrote. Teacher strikes are illegal in the state of Washington; however, state law does not currently include specific penalties for public employees who strike. Elizabeth New, director of the Center for Worker Rights at the free-market Washington Policy Center think tank, told The Center Square on Monday that school strikes harm students and families. “This is not something that helps our state economy run well or helps us function in the services that are promised to taxpayers and having them taken away like this is prohibited by the state,” she said. “The courts have backed this up when injunctions are issued, but they don't usually end up in any fines, and the law is toothless, which is why I think they continue." She noted that other states that institute strike penalties see far fewer walkouts. “The part that always boggles my mind is you have workers going on strike and they're hurting other workers. These students’ families, some of them don't get paid because they can't go to work, so it hurts family budgets and shows no regard for the students and their families that they're serving,” New said. “The Legislature could enact fines, penalties, but I don't think they will.” She urged teachers and support staff in these two districts who did not support the walkout to consider opting out of union dues. “I think a lot of people don't even know that they have the right to join or not join their union because they don't agree with the union politics or what the union is all about,” she said.

The federal government is unenthusiastic about cranking up its biggest cleanup project next month at the Hanford nuclear site in south-central Washington. But it will meet an Oct. 15 deadline to bring the so-called glassification facility online, the U.S. Department of Energy said Thursday.  Whether the department may move later to shut down the facility, […]

COLUMBIA — Death row inmate Steven Bixby may be obstinate and have atypical beliefs about the law, but he can still face execution, a judge decided. Circuit Court Judge R. Scott Sprouse’s 24-page order, dated Friday, opens the door for Bixby to receive a death warrant, which would be the seventh issued since the state […]

A peticiones justas golpes sordos: la otra organización estudiantil en UdeG Por: Antonio Pedro. Foto: Jade Ramírez. Fecha: 15 de septiembre, 2025 En los casi 100 años de la refundación de la Universidad de Guadalajara (UdeG), los alumnos han luchado por una representación digna, justa y real ante las autoridades universitarias. Esta se vio aún […] La entrada A peticiones justas golpes sordos: la otra organización estudiantil en UdeG se publicó primero en Perimetral.

Poland’s State Security Service said on Monday that a drone was “neutralized” after it flew over key government sites, including Belweder Palace, the official Warsaw residence of President Karol Nawrocki. Prime Minister Donald Tusk reported on social media that two Belarusian citizens were detained while police investigate the incident. Tusk did not share further details.

Crise aberta pelas falas de Valdemar Costa Neto sobre o golpe expõe tensões no bolsonarismo e evidencia o jogo do presidente do PL: explorar a força eleitoral do ex-presidente, mas mantendo-o sob rédea curta, enquanto amplia bancadas e o dinheiro da legenda The post Ultradireita: o PL já não é tão fiel a Bolsonaro appeared first on Outras Palavras.

As Utah and the rest of the nation continue to contend with the gruesome killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk in front of thousands of people at Utah Valley University last week, Utah Gov. Spencer Cox emphasized unity in a message for the state’s college students.  “You can build a culture where we embrace differences […]

O físico brasileiro Luiz Davidovich, professor emérito da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), foi o vencedor do Prêmio TWAS Apex 2025. Concedido pela Academia Mundial de Ciências, vinculada à Organização das Nações Unidas para a Educação, a Ciência e a Cultura (Unesco), o prêmio, um dos mais importantes no cenário internacional, reconhece o trabalho de pesquisadores que contribuem para o avanço da ciência e da tecnologia no mundo. Referência mundial em pesquisas voltadas ao impacto do ambiente em sistemas quânticos, Davidovich ressalta o papel transformador da ciência. "Eu fico muito honrado com esse prêmio que recebi da Academia Mundial de Ciências, que eu considero que é uma entidade muito importante para o mundo, porque ela agrega cientistas de todo o mundo como da China, da Índia, da África e da América Latina. Essa entidade promove a cooperação entre esses cientistas, as conversas entre esses cientistas, muitas vezes de países que têm problemas, que estão em guerra. A ciência fura esses muros de preconceito, de guerra." O físico brasileiro também destaca a importância do prêmio na área da ciência quântica. "Essa área está presente em nosso cotidiano. Ela está por trás de computadores, de painéis solares, smartphones, ferramentas médicas – como lasers e máquinas de ressonância magnética –, materiais avançados, está por trás do GPS e mesmo na agricultura de precisão. Tudo isso usa a física quântica, usa a mecânica quântica. Então esse é um ano de celebração." A cerimônia de entrega do Prêmio será realizada durante a 17ª Conferência Geral, que acontecerá no Rio de Janeiro entre os dias 29 de setembro e 2 de outubro.  Organizado em parceria com a Academia Brasileira de Ciências, o encontro terá como tema “Construindo um futuro sustentável: o papel da ciência, da tecnologia e da inovação para o desenvolvimento global”.

A filha do ministro do Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) Edson Fachin foi alvo de agressões na última sexta-feira (12), em Curitiba. O episódio ocorreu quando a advogada Melina Girardi Fachin deixava o prédio da faculdade de direito da Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR), onde ela também é professora. Melina foi alvo de uma cusparada, desferida por um homem branco, que ainda não foi identificado. O suspeito também a chamou de “lixo comunista". Notícias relacionadas: Dino pede à PF apuração de ameaças após voto para condenar Bolsonaro. MPF pede à Justiça cancelamento das outorgas da Jovem Pan . Pelas redes sociais, o advogado Marcos Rocha Gonçalves, marido de Melina, repudiou a agressão e afirmou que o episódio não é um caso isolado de violência física e política contra mulheres, fruto da atuação da “extrema direita” “Se alguma coisa acontecer com a professora Melina ou com alguém da nossa família, vocês não serão apenas os responsáveis, vocês receberão o mesmo jugo”, afirmou. Em nota à imprensa, o presidente da Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil (OAB), Beto Simonetti, condenou o ataque e declarou que a democracia exige respeito às liberdades. “A entidade repudia veementemente o episódio, que afronta valores essenciais da vida democrática. A democracia exige o respeito às liberdades, ao pluralismo e à convivência pacífica, sobretudo no espaço acadêmico, que deve ser preservado como ambiente de diálogo e de construção do conhecimento — jamais como palco para violência, intolerância ou tentativas de silenciamento”, disse a OAB. Procurada pela Agência Brasil, a UFPR disse que ainda não tem uma manifestação oficial sobre o episódio envolvendo a professora Melina Fachin. Disputa e invasão da PM Na terça-feira (9), UFPR foi palco de uma invasão da Polícia Militar após uma confusão envolvendo uma palestra que seria ministrada por apoiadores do ex-presidente Bolsonaro.  Após protestos de estudantes do curso de direito, o evento foi cancelado, mas os ânimos permaneceram exaltados. Diante da situação, a PM entrou no prédio da universidade e usou balas de borracha para dispensar o protesto, ferindo estudantes que estavam no local. Após a invasão, a direção da universidade cobrou explicações do comando da PM do Paraná e acionou o Ministério Público e a Defensoria Pública para as providências cabíveis.

(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump signed a memorandum of understanding that will send the National Guard to Memphis as part of a task force to combat crime. "This team will deploy the full powers of federal law enforcement agencies ... to restore public safety and get dangerous career criminals off our streets," Trump said in the Oval Office. "In 2024, Memphis had the highest violent crime rate, the highest property crime rate, and the third highest murder rate of any city in the nation." Flanked by Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee and the state's U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, Trump said, "A president should have stepped up long ago and saved these cities." "It's not that I wanted to do it," Trump said. "Somebody had to do it and we're doing it in a big way." The Memphis Safe Task Force will also include the FBI; Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement; Homeland Security; and the U.S. Marshals, according to the memorandum. Trump said state and local officials requested federal assistance. "I have been in office for seven years," Lee said. "I'm tired of crime holding the great city of Memphis back." Memphis Mayor Paul Young said he did not ask for the National Guard. "However, the decision has been made," Young said in a post on social media. "As your Mayor, my commitment is to work strategically to ensure this happens in a way that truly benefits and strengthens our community." The plan for bringing in the National Guard has not been announced. The District of Columbia National Guard website shows that 172 members of the Tennessee National Guard are in Washington helping with a deployment there. State Rep. Antonio Parkinson, D-Memphis, said Monday the city should see the deployment as "1,000 pieces of human capital ro free labor coming to the city." He said if the "experiment works, he will ask the federal government to give Memphis the same budget it took to bring the National Guard there." “Otherwise, we’ll be right back in the same situation again," Parkinson said. Republicans have praised the decision to deploy the National Guard. "This shouldn't be a partisan issue; this should be something that is our primary goal," Hagerty said. "Certainly, I hope to see Memphis become the safest city in America."

Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools. When Chicago school board member and longtime activist Jitu Brown heard last spring that the school district’s Black Student Success Plan was under a federal investigation after a complaint from a conservative group, he vowed that the district would stay the course. “I am not built to shrink,” said Brown, who will lead a school board committee tasked with overseeing the plan’s rollout. “It’s racism cloaked as civil rights,” he added about the investigation. Chicago Public Schools unveiled the long-awaited plan to address academic and disciplinary disparities its Black students face this past February. It outlined several five-year goals: Double the number of male Black teachers, decrease Black student suspensions by 40%, and grow the number of classrooms where Black history is taught, among others. Brown said the district will forge ahead this school year despite the investigation by the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, which is reviewing whether the plan discriminates against other district students. He said he will announce the members of the school board’s Black Student Achievement Committee later this month. But the Trump administration’s campaign against race-based initiatives and the threat of withholding federal funding is casting a shadow over the Chicago plan’s implementation. District officials deferred all questions about the plan and its rollout this year to the school board. In spite of the federal scrutiny, some parents and advocates are pressing the district to ramp up work on the plan this fall. They are eager to see a more detailed blueprint for meeting the plan’s goals, a dedicated budget for its rollout, and metrics to track whether the district is making headway each year. A spokeswoman for the Office for Civil Rights, which has requested that CPS turn over extensive documents related to the plan, said the inquiry is ongoing. Parents Defending Education, the Virginia-based group whose complaint triggered the investigation, did not respond to a request for comment. It has previously argued that Chicago’s initiative is “racially exclusive” and conflicts with the Trump administration’s sweeping interpretation of a U.S. Supreme Court decision banning affirmative action in college admissions. Black students make up roughly a third of CPS’s student body. Based on early, unofficial enrollment data, they were the racial group whose numbers decreased the most this fall as the district’s enrollment resumed a decades-long downward slide. Board committee to listen and seek out best practices this year Brown, who has a long history of activism on racial justice and equity in Chicago, represents the West Side on the school board and was chosen earlier this year to chair the new Black Student Achievement Committee, which is required under Illinois law. He said his first order of business is firming up the committee’s membership, which is expected to be unveiled at the board’s regular meeting later this month. Brown said appointed board member Michilla Blaise, who also represents West Side communities, will serve as the committee’s vice chair, alongside principals, teachers, students, community leaders, local school council members, and others. Once the committee is announced, it will tackle the task of fleshing out a vision to implement the plan. Developed with extensive community engagement, the Black Student Success Plan acknowledges a district track record of falling short in serving Black families, noting that Black students have disproportionately attended racially segregated, disinvested schools and have been affected by school closures more than other racial groups. The plan sets five overarching goals, but it does not explain exactly how the district would meet these goals. The day after the plan was released in February, Parents Defending Education, which has challenged race- and gender-based initiatives across the country, filed a complaint with the Office for Civil Rights. It argued that the effort discriminates against other students in the district, particularly Latinos, who have also lagged behind their white and Asian American peers. Within weeks, the OCR announced it would pursue an investigation into the complaint. It requested records describing the initiative’s rationale, how students and schools would be chosen to receive services, and more, according to documents the district provided in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by Chalkbeat. CPS said its responses to the feds are not public. While CPS works through the details of the investigation, Brown said he is preparing for a year of outreach. “Year one will be about building a rapport and rhythm within the committee and beginning to engage communities on what can be done differently,” he said. Brown said there are effective practices benefiting Black students across the district — some involving little to no additional spending. He pointed to a peer mentoring program at National Teachers Academy, in which older students coach and read with students in the earlier grades. He also held up Kenwood Academy, a high-performing neighborhood school with a magnet component serving predominantly Black students, which Brown’s son attends. Brown said other schools can learn from what “the HBCU of Chicago” is doing right. Despite the OCR investigation and a broader societal swing away from diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts, Brown said he’s not interested in watering down the plan’s goals. In Chicago, Brown is well-known for his activism, including spearheading a 2015 hunger strike to reopen a shuttered South Side high school. Brown now leads Journey for Justice Alliance, a national network of community-based organizations, which issued a pre-pandemic report on educational disparities. Still, it remains unclear how close CPS and the school board are to start implementing the plan. District officials have declined to discuss its implementation this year since the announcement of the federal inquiry. CPS’s recently released budget did not spell out a specific allocation for the rollout but listed it as a signature initiative of the Office of Equity, saying it will work closely with 13 district departments crafting their own strategies for implementing the plan. According to the district’s budget book, the Office of Equity’s budget decreased slightly compared with last year’s approved budget, to about $1.9 million. The document says that in the spring of 2026, the office will reconvene a community working group that provided input into the plan and prepare to launch districtwide Black student unions. Valerie Leonard, a community advocate who served on the community working group and who lobbied state lawmakers to mandate the Black Student Achievement Committee, said she believes CPS is moving slowly and cautiously because of the federal scrutiny. She said the blueprint is a “wonderful beginning,” but continues to push for a detailed vision for how it will meet the plan’s goals year by year, with interim goals and concrete, nonpunitive measures of how the Black student experience is improving. She urged officials not to delay that work or leave advocates like her out of the loop, noting that intensive community engagement has already happened. “We can’t get bogged down in analysis paralysis,” she said. CPS could have a legal case to make Cara McClellan, an associate practice professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania, said Chicago is not required to put its initiative on hold during the federal investigation. CPS could be on solid legal footing as long as it can make a strong case that its efforts are tailored to address discrimination and inequities its Black students have historically faced under its care, she said. The district needs to clearly articulate how it fell short and how the plan tackles the fallout, McClellan said. For example, she pointed to extensive research showing that racial bias and discrimination have historically contributed to disproportionate discipline, including suspensions, for Black students. McClellan said she is skeptical of the Trump administration’s effort to apply the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 Students for Fair Admissions decision banning the use of race in college admissions. “There’s nothing in Students for Fair Admissions that says you can’t remedy a history of discrimination against students,” McClellan said. The federal government has argued that the decision prohibits institutions from using even non-racial factors such as poverty to address disparities. “What we’re seeing is an attempt by the Trump administration and conservative groups to say that Students for Fair Admissions stands for much more than it does,” she said. “One decision doesn’t append other areas of the law.” Parents Defending Education, the group challenging Chicago’s plan, had previously filed a complaint against a similar plan to help Black students in the Los Angeles Unified School District in 2023. Under pressure from the Biden administration, that district last year made changes to its plan to target high-needs schools rather than Black students specifically to receive extra support — changes that rankled some of the original plan’s supporters. Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has said the city would sue the Trump administration if it moves to take away CPS funding over its diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Chicago parents urge action and practical solutions Hal Woods of the advocacy group Kids First Chicago said regardless of the federal scrutiny, the district should earmark money for implementation and spell out clearly where it stands now on the goals it has set: How many Black male teachers work in CPS? How many classrooms teach Black history now? Woods said some of the parents affiliated with his group are concerned about the possible loss of federal funding at a financially precarious time for the district and want CPS to navigate the federal scrutiny cautiously. Others want it to move forward unapologetically. Katrina Adams, a mom of three district students who leads a nonprofit that offers after-school and summer programs through the Chicago Park District, says she has long been deeply concerned about the disparities facing the district’s Black students. Not enough are graduating ready for college or careers in high-demand fields. If salvaging the district’s initiative means changing its name or how the district steers help to students, she’s open to it: “It’s about who needs the most support. In the long run, this will help all students.” But Mykela Collins, the mother of two CPS students, doesn’t want the CPS to make any concessions, even as she worries about how the district will roll out the plan amid rising budget pressures and a tough political climate. “Why can’t Black students have a focus solely on them?” she said. “What’s the problem with focusing on a group of students who really need it?” Brown said the school board is determined to push the district to serve Black students better, regardless of how the federal inquiry plays out. “This work will happen no matter what,” he said. “There’s a deep commitment to it.” Mila Koumpilova is Chalkbeat Chicago’s senior reporter covering Chicago Public Schools. Contact Mila at mkoumpilova@chalkbeat.org.

State and federal lawmakers have turned their eyes toward Iowa’s institutions of higher education as the fallout from right-wing podcaster Charlie Kirk’s death continues, with Iowa university employees allegedly joining others online speaking about the incident in a positive light. Rep. Taylor Collins, R-Mediapolis, and Sen. Lynn Evans, R-Aurelia, signed a letter directed to the […]