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Indonesia sedang berduka atas bencana banjir bandang yang melanda Aceh, Sumatera Utara, dan sekitarnya. Pemerintah menyebut Siklon Tropis Senyar sebagai pemicu utama banjir. Namun, menjadikan cuaca ekstrem…

Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Parents at a Memphis elementary school are concerned about student safety in a proposed K-8 merger next year that comes as part of a larger district school closure plan. In September, interim Memphis-Shelby County Schools Superintendent Roderick Richmond recommended the transfer of the Lucy Elementary building to neighboring Millington Municipal School District at the end of this school year, in order to comply with a 2023 state law and address chronic underenrollment. Richmond also recommended closing four MSCS schools, a proposal that board members are expected to vote on in February. But children currently attending Lucy would likely not be able to transfer to Millington, because they are still zoned for MSCS. District leaders say merging students with Woodstock Middle School would fill empty classroom seats and offer new amenities, like a renovated gym. Right now, only around 30% of seats at Lucy Elementary and Woodstock Middle School are in use. Combining the two schools would boost that figure to over 70%. “We have 12 K-8 grade structures, so we understand exactly what we need to do to make sure we get it right for your babies,” said MSCS Regional Superintendent Debra Fox-Stanford at a Wednesday hearing. But some parents aren’t sold on that idea. Jeffery Porter has a daughter in second grade. He said last year, an older student gave her a THC-infused gummy candy while on the bus ride home. “She had to go to the hospital; it was bad,” Porter told Chalkbeat Tennessee. “And now, she could be riding the bus with eighth graders. That’s bigger kids, they’re close to being grown. We’re really worried about that.” Porter said he will likely try to send his daughter to a different elementary school through the district’s open enrollment process. But MSCS leaders said Wednesday that the process opens for applications on Jan. 27, before the school board is set to vote on Lucy Elementary’s transfer. Offers are given on a first-come, first-serve basis. Lucy Elementary needs $2.5 million in maintenance upgrades in the next two years, according to an independent report released this spring. Stanford-Fox said transferring the building to Millington before the 2027 deadline set by state lawmakers will allow MSCS to funnel that money more directly to Memphis students. “The proposal to transfer the school to Millington early will keep the district from investing any additional funds into a building that they will no longer operate,” she said. “We can continue to make Woodstock Middle School even better.” MSCS leaders said Wednesday that they don’t know yet if Woodstock would be able to offer prekindergarten classes, which Lucy Elementary currently does. As for the seven staff affected by Lucy’s transfer, which parents raised concerns about in the district’s first closure hearing, there will be a “special transfer period” to apply to work at Woodstock. Audrey Williams, director of transportation for MSCS, said bus monitors can be assigned if issues arise from students from different grade spans mixing. But Porter said he’s not convinced that will solve everything, especially because those same safety issues come with cafeterias and hallways. “I understand if [merging the schools] is the best they can do for now,” he said. “But I just don’t think it’s a good idea to have that young of kids around that big of kids. Bullying’s a big issue, and that’s just like setting it up.” MSCS will host another community meeting about the proposed transfer of Lucy Elementary Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Woodstock Middle School. Bri Hatch covers Memphis-Shelby County Schools for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Reach Bri at bhatch@chalkbeat.org.

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En vivaroalpenc recabrunasc   — A comuna de Recabruna Cab Martin, nom en occitan vivaroalpenc local, es a tèrça en populacion dau païse, damb 12 419 recabrunascs en l’annaia dau 2022, de gaire darreire a comuna vesina de Bersorelh. Mas luenh darreire a comuna de Menton que fa mai dau dóbie (mai de 30 000 ab.). O territòri comunal es marcat per tres pòles desseparats. Recabruna vilatge damb o caster dich Grimaldi, fortificacion medievala edificaia, a ra fin dau sécolo 10, per Colrad Ier, còmte de Ventemilha, per empachar rus sarrasins de se stabilir tornarmai dintre a region. Continua llegint

S’es trapat una tatiranha bèla e gigantassa de mai de 100 mètres-carrats dins una bauma entre Albania e Grècia. A calgut per lo mens 110 000 aranhas per tèisser la tela: l’union fa la fòrça e fa la tela qu’es plan solida e plan mofla (coma una coissinièra, dison). Al cap del fial i a una estèla que cordura un castèl d’enganas ont un tròç de cèl s’encadena a totes los bofars de l’aura e l’aranha empusa la brasa de son verin de pèira viva que va negar dins un sorelh la mendra beluga de vida (Joan-Maria Petit) Ara, cèrcan de saupre quand de temps calguèt per realizar l’òbra e se demanda se va sus son milion d’annadas o s’es una jovenòta de 10 000 ans. Continua llegint

Èran venguts a la tardor de 2023 per nos presentar la pèça de teatre La sopa al piston. Dimenge vrespada 30 de novembre, tornèron amb una autra pèça de lor composicion: Transicion ecologica a Traucapairòls. Transicion ecologica a Montbrun Boscatge: es pas de tot en tot una galejada! Dimenge vrespada, fasiá bon, per un còp i aviá pas de rugbi a la television, un seissantenat de montbruneses e de mès luenh encara, quitament de Tolosa, èran venguts dins la sala polivalenta de Montbrun per passar un bon moment, rire amb Les Galejaires. Continua llegint

L’anóncia de l’organizacion d’ua edicion navèra de la «Nueit deu ben comun», prevista lo 10 de deceme, qu’a arrevitat las criticas d’ua partida de l’esquèrra bordalesa, çò rapòrta Sud-Ouest. Presentada com ua grana serada destinada a collectar hons entà associacions solidàrias de Gironda, aquera iniciativa qu’a suscitat pr’aquò ua hòrta oposicion de la França Insosmesa (LFI) e deu Partit Comunista francés (PCF). Continua llegint

(The Center Square) - Legal battles over the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools continue with a new brief filed this week, backed by 46 members of Congress. First Liberty Institute and Hacker Stephens LLP filed a friend-of-the-court brief this past week at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. The brief is supported by congressional members such as U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana. The brief supports the constitutionality of displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools. “[O]ur Nation’s history and tradition acknowledge Moses as a lawgiver and the Ten Commandments as a historical foundation of our system of laws,” the brief states. “First Liberty’s recent Supreme Court victories in The American Legion v. American Humanist Association and Kennedy v. Bremerton School District make clear that displaying the Ten Commandments in public schools is constitutional,” said Kelly Shackelford, president, CEO, and chief counsel for First Liberty. “Our religious heritage and the best of the nation’s history and traditions acknowledge the Ten Commandments as an important symbol of law and moral conduct with both religious and secular significance. Government hostility to religion and our religious history is not the law.” Several states have moved to require the display of the Ten Commandments in classrooms following these Supreme Court rulings. In 2024, Louisiana enacted House Bill 71, mandating that schools and publicly funded colleges display the Ten Commandments. Nine families sued the state, arguing that the law encourages state endorsement of religion, which they claimed violated the First Amendment. In Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott signed Senate Bill 10 in June, requiring all public school classrooms to post a copy of the Ten Commandments starting in the 2025-2026 school year. A federal judge in San Antonio blocked the law in certain districts. A group of 18 multifaith and nonreligious Texas families filed a class-action lawsuit seeking to block the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools not already involved in litigation, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas. “As a Jewish, Christian and Chinese American family, we teach our children to draw strength from many traditions, not to see one as supreme,” said Mari Gottlieb, one plaintiff whose children attend schools in Carroll, Texas. “Forcing the Ten Commandments on my kids is indoctrination, undermines my right to guide their beliefs, and perpetuates the feelings of exclusion that our ancestors knew all too well.” Chloe Kempf, attorney with the ACLU of Texas, emphasized the constitutionality of this issue. “The courts are clear that forcing displays of the Ten Commandments on Texas students is unconstitutional,” Kempf said. “Yet Texas school districts won’t stop. Enough is enough. With this class action lawsuit, Texans are coming together to say: Students and families — not the government — should decide how or whether they practice their faith.” All of these cases have been consolidated and will be heard by judges at the 5th Circuit later this month.

Gov. Tony Evers appointed John W. Miller, a venture capitalist who previously served on the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents, to serve as the next secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation. Miller will fill the spot left vacant by Missy Hughes, who had served in the position since 2019 but […]

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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. A state-mandated education task force has advanced two proposals that would both significantly dilute the power of the elected board governing Indianapolis Public Schools. In a 7-2 vote on Wednesday, members of the Indianapolis Local Education Alliance moved ahead with two potential recommendations to change how local schools are run, but did not indicate a preference for one of them. The first model would increase the influence of the mayor and charters through a new three-way power-sharing arrangement. The model’s proposed “collaborative compact advisory board” would consist of appointees from IPS, the mayor’s office, and charter schools. The IPS school board and charter schools’ boards would report to this advisory board, which would collect and levy property taxes and serve as a charter authorizer. The mayor’s Office of Education Innovation, however, which currently serves as a charter authorizer, could also continue in that role. The second model would concentrate more power in the mayor’s hands by establishing an Indianapolis Education Authority consisting of a mayor-appointed secretary of education. In the version of this model presented last month, the mayor would also appoint a nine-member policy-making board. Four of those nine members would be selected from the elected IPS school board, which along with charter school boards would also report to the policy-making board. The model would allow the Office of Education Innovation, or OEI, to remain as a charter authorizer. The Indiana Charter School Board would either be another authorizer, or would serve as an appeals board for charter schools seeking to challenge a decision made by the OEI. Either plan would bring monumental changes to Indianapolis Public Schools and the 54 charters within district borders. The ILEA’s work is taking place against the backdrop of declining enrollment and significant long-term financial issues for IPS, while charter school enrollment in the area has grown. Tensions between traditional public and charters over funding and other resources have also escalated. And in recent years, state GOP lawmakers have sought to take power and funding away from IPS in different ways. The Republican supermajority that approved the creation of the ILEA is also considering redrawing Indiana’s congressional map to potentially eliminate two Democratic seats statewide and dilute the electoral power of the urban core of Indianapolis. The alliance was created by state lawmakers to recommend changing how IPS and charter schools could share resources. The ILEA’s members also agreed to advance two options for the management of IPS and charter facilities and transportation that would put power over bus services and school buildings under either a separate authority or advisory board. The ILEA will collect public input on its three preferred models in two meetings later this month. One will be held on Dec. 10 at KIPP Legacy High School from 6 to 8 p.m., and another will be held on Dec. 15 at the Madam Walker Legacy Center from 12 to 2 p.m. The group will pick its final recommendations to state lawmakers in a vote at a Dec. 17 meeting, although legislators could also disregard the ILEA’s preferences. IPS superintendent critical of plans to reduce board’s power The vote on the three models came after heated public comment Wednesday from both district and charter supporters. While charter leaders opposed any moves to reduce the number of charter authorizers, parents supportive of IPS urged the alliance to give authority over both district and charter schools to a fully elected IPS school board. “If charters have concerns about answering to the IPS board, they can campaign to elect members that are favorable to their kids,” said IPS parent Josiah Harris-Adam, referencing previous school board election cycles that have garnered financial support from charter-friendly organizations. The IPS Parent Council, which supports traditional IPS schools, called on the ILEA to pause Wednesday’s vote to hear more public testimony on the options. The council also decried the 4 p.m. meeting time that they said was inconvenient for many students and families. Superintendent Aleesia Johnson and IPS teacher and parent Tina Ahlgren were the two votes against the proposals to dilute the power of the current IPS board. “The elected school board oversees the administration of transportation and facilities for 70% of public school students in our boundary, charter and district,” Johnson said. “It would seem to me that the least disruptive way to proceed would be to leverage that publicly elected board to provide service or set policy for 100% of the public schools within our boundary, charter and district, while still respecting the autonomy and flexibility that many of our charter schools enjoy today.” But Angela Smith-Jones, who was appointed to the ILEA by Mayor Joe Hogsett, noted that the alliance must consider how state lawmakers will respond to the task force’s recommendations. Fellow ILEA member and former Indianapolis mayor Bart Peterson agreed, and said the alliance will still be doing a lot of work to address unanswered questions. He also said the task force will take more public input before its final meeting in two weeks. “I believe we can reach a proposal that we can be proud to put forward,” he said. ILEA advances options for independent transportation, facilities oversight Meanwhile, the proposals advanced by the ILEA to change oversight of transportation and facilities have some key similarities. One option for facilities would be to create another “collaborative compact advisory board” to manage buildings. The board could set accountability and performance standards that could determine which schools receive buildings. The other recommendation for changing facilities management would create an independent building authority that consists of facilities experts and professional staff. The transportation options advanced by the task force are similar. One would create an advisory board that would set transportation zones. In this model, schools opting in to the service would pay for transportation services that continue to be run by IPS. Another model would create an independent transportation authority that would collect property tax dollars and hire transportation contractors. Amelia Pak-Harvey covers Indianapolis and Lawrence Township schools for Chalkbeat Indiana. Contact Amelia at apak-harvey@chalkbeat.org.

Idaho’s potential budget deficit, which will be exacerbated if lawmakers chose to conform with the tax changes under the federal “Big Beautiful Bill Act,” will be the central challenge for the Legislature as members return to the state Capitol in Boise in January.  State elected officials who spoke Wednesday at the Associated Taxpayers of Idaho […]

“My mother said that the man was commanded by a fellow policeman to interrogate me about my supposed ‘officership’ in KPL-Tacloban as the one ‘handling finance and budget." The post Tacloban youth activist harassed after November 30 protest appeared first on Bulatlat.

“Police personnel from Pinukpuk entered our home without any consent or permission. Many of them went inside our house. Some wore masks. Some wore bonnets like thieves. Is that how the police behave?” The post Rights group, kin denounce harassment in Kalinga  appeared first on Bulatlat.

Há artigos ruins, há artigos péssimos – e há o de Walter Maciel no InfoMoney, “A primeira classe já caiu — só não admite”. Em poucas linhas, ele compila quase todos os clichês da elite brasileira: o rico como vítima perseguida, o Estado como vilão, os pobres como massa abstrata de efeito retórico e a […] O post O pior artigo do ano: a coluna que virou caricatura da elite brasileira apareceu primeiro em Observatório da Imprensa.

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En Guinée, cela fait près d’une semaine que la campagne pour la présidentielle du 28 décembre est ouverte. Elle a démarré le 28 novembre. Une campagne plutôt calme pour le moment, en l’absence des poids lourds de la scène politique, ce que certains observateurs perçoivent comme un manque d’enjeu se fait sentir. Il n’y a pas encore de meeting d’envergure, ni du côté du candidat Mamadi Doumbouya, ni du côté de ses huit concurrents.