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Em encontro com Merz, presidente cobrou diplomacia em conflitos e apontou riscos após falas de Trump Fonte

O cursinho popular Quilombo Flores, em Porto Alegre, inicia seu quarto ano reafirmando a educação como ferramenta de transformação social e fortalecimento do território. As inscrições para a nova turma estão abertas até o dia 22 de abril, por meio de formulário online disponível nas redes sociais do cursinho. Criado a partir de uma demanda […] Fonte

La Havane aurait jusqu'à ce vendredi pour libérer plusieurs prisonniers politiques de premier plan, selon le journal USA Today. Un ultimatum fixé par Washington lors d'une réunion qui s'est tenue le 10 avril, et dont les médias n'ont eu connaissance qu'il y a trois jours. Le président cubain Miguel Diaz-Canel avait confirmé en mars que son pays discutait avec les États-Unis, dont le blocus pétrolier paralyse pratiquement toute l'économie de l'île. Cette visite d'une délégation états-unienne à Cuba était une première depuis quatre ans.

На фронті від початку доби відбулося 139 боєзіткнень, найбільше російський атак було на Покровському напрямку

This story is republished through the Indigenous News Alliance. Hundreds of delegates are arriving at the United Nations this week for the world’s largest gathering of Indigenous peoples. But they arrive against an increasingly hostilechallenging global backdrop, facing an artificial intelligence boom driving new extraction on ancestral lands, a U.S. administration that has made it […]

Les 27 ministres des Affaires étrangères de l’Union européenne se réunissent ce mardi 21 avril à Luxembourg avec à l’ordre du jour évidemment la situation en Ukraine et au Proche et Moyen-Orient. Les Européens veulent en particulier examiner la situation à Gaza et en Cisjordanie après une réunion ce lundi du comité de liaison sur la Palestine (Alliance mondiale pour la mise en œuvre de la solution à deux États) en présence du Premier ministre Mohammad Mustafa. Le Premier ministre espagnol a d’ailleurs annoncé que son pays demanderait à nouveau ce mardi la suspension de l’accord d’association entre l'UE et Israël.

President Trump said a U.S. delegation will head to Pakistan to resume talks to end the war with Iran.

CHERNOBYL, Ukraine (AP) — Wildlife is thriving again four decades after the nuclear disaster at Ukraine’s Chernobyl power plant in what became the exclusion zone created by the forced mass evacuations of the population. Wolves, bears and lynx have rebounded in the radioactive landscape, along with a rare breed of horses native to Mongolia. Scientists […]

(The Center Square) – U.S. District Court Judge April Perry has dismissed Illinois’ lawsuit against President Donald Trump over his deployment of National Guard troops to the state. The judge ruled Monday that she granted the Trump administration’s motion to dismiss because the matter is “moot.” Gov. J.B. Pritzker called the order “a win” for Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul. “Today’s order concluding Illinois v. Trump confirms what has been clear to the people of Illinois from the beginning — Donald Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to occupy our streets was a reckless and illegal abuse of power,” Pritzker said in a statement. Raoul filed the federal complaint last October after several hundred National Guard troops reported to the Chicago area. A few days later, Perry granted the state’s request for a temporary restraining order to block the deployment. The judge said at the time that not even “the most ardent Federalist, Alexander Hamilton,” believed one state’s militia could be sent to another state for political retribution. The case went to the Supreme Court, which ruled in December that the president could not use National Guard troops in Chicago to help federal immigration enforcement. About a week later, Trump announced he would remove members of the National Guard from Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon. On Monday, Raoul reacted to the conclusion of the case and said there was no lawful explanation for the Guard’s deployment. “This matter went all the way to U.S. Supreme Court, which denied the administration’s attempt to stay that lower court’s order. Now, several months later, the federal government has conceded that the orders for deployment are not operational,” Raoul said. Dan McCaleb, Brett Rowland and Sarah Roderick-Fitch contributed to this story.

A pocos días de asumir Javier Milei dejó sin funcionamiento la dirección (DADSE) de asistencia para ciudadanos con cáncer y enfermedades con tratamientos de alto costo, rápidamente se acumularon más de 1800 expedientes sin respuestas, se estima que alcanzaba a 4000 enfermos en todo el país, 1463 solo de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. También […]

Mayor’s education council has helped more students earn college credits in high school. Meet two graduates who seized the opportunity.

Maryland’s online property records database has been taken offline following a cybersecurity threat, according to a statement from the State Department of Assessments and Taxation.

Rather than seeking incremental changes, the social sector is being called upon to reclaim a larger role in Canadian society, Abdul Nakua suggests. He offers three areas of development and three key investments for consideration. The post Reclaiming the public square in a time of rupture appeared first on The Philanthropist Journal.

დავით დახუნდარიძე 6 წლის იყო, როდესაც დიაგნოზი თურქეთში დაუსვეს. დედას იქაურმა ნევროლოგმა პირდაპირ უთხრა - “ბავშვი 12 წლამდე ივლის, 20 წლამდე იცოცხლებს”. ახლა დავითი 8 წლის არის, ოჯახთან ერთად საფრანგეთშია, ემიგრაციაში.

Como seria o diálogo entre um neandertal e um homo sapiens? É a partir dessa provocação que a escritora Paulliny Tort escreve Os imortais, sobre o período Paleolítico, pouco explorado na ficção. A obra imagina o encontro entre os clãs, em uma história que revela muito sobre os humanos que somos hoje. Ao BdF Entrevista, […] Fonte

د امریکا او اسرائیل له خوا پر ایران د هوايي بریدونو له پیل څخه اووه اوونۍ تېرې شوې دي، او د هرمز تنګي له لارې د کښتیو تګ راتګ محدود کېدو د تېلو، سرې او نورو مهمو توکو بیې لوړې کړې دي. د عرضې کمښت نورې اغېزې هم رامنځته کړي، لکه د کرنې تولید ته ګواښ.

Sign up for Chalkbeat Tennessee’s free newsletter to keep up with statewide education policy and Memphis-Shelby County Schools.Tennessee Republicans took one step closer to seizing major controls from the Memphis-Shelby County school district on Monday in a takeover effort that could eventually affect other school systems across the state. The legislation would install a politically appointed oversight board in any Tennessee school district that meets four of six criteria of academic underperformance and management instability. Republicans on Monday approved a conference committee bill, which will now move to full House and Senate votes this week.The nine-person oversight board would be empowered to fire any district employee, including the superintendent, with or without cause. It would also have veto power over the district budget. The bill would become law immediately if passed, meaning Tennessee Republicans could appoint an oversight board amid ongoing school board elections in Memphis.Memphis takeover advocates have argued intervention is needed due to consistent academic underperformance in the state’s largest school district. But Tennessee Department of Education officials testified on Monday that a majority of school districts meet the same academic underperformance criteria, and seven school districts meet three of four performance standards. Those districts include Campbell, Cocke, Madison, Lewis, and Shelby counties, in addition to the state-run Achievement School District and the Tennessee Public Charter School district. Under draft legislation proposed by a conference committee this week, the state could install an oversight board in school districts where:fewer than 50% of students earn proficient scores on state standardized math tests. fewer than 50% of students earn proficient scores on state standardized English language arts tests.25% or more of schools in the district earn a D or F letter grade from the Tennessee Department of Education.and a 25% or higher chronic absenteeism rate.Rep. Mark White, a Memphis Republican who is co-sponsoring the effort to intervene in Memphis schools, noted MSCS is the only state district that meets all of those criteria. The final two designations include the commissioner of education, a political appointee, determining whether an audit shows deficiencies in district management, and whether the local board of education has employed more than two superintendents or directors of schools in the last four years. Memphis is the only district in the state with an ongoing state-funded forensic audit managed by the Tennessee’s Comptroller audit, though school districts are routinely examined in lower-profile audits. “It highlights that this legislation was written very surgically to apply only to Memphis and Shelby County schools,” said Sen. Raumesh Akbari, a Memphis Democrat who called the intervention effort “heavy-handed.”Takeover or intervention?Memphis Republicans pushing for intervention argue the effort is not a state takeover of Tennessee’s largest district, as lawmakers or the Department of Education would not directly control decisions within the district. The majority of the oversight board members must be residents of Shelby County. However, the new legislation gives elected Republicans in Tennessee broad authority to craft or even trigger an oversight board, given the commissioner of education authority included in the legislation. The governor would appoint five oversight board members, and the House and Senate speakers would get two appointees each. The oversight board would seize major financial controls from the Memphis-Shelby County school board, whose primary authority is to set the district’s operating budget and manage the district’s superintendent. Under the draft legislation, the school board would have to submit its proposed budget to the oversight body for approval. The oversight body could veto any or all line items in the budget. The oversight board could even rewrite the entire district’s budget under certain circumstances, if the school board doesn’t meet the oversight board’s timeline for revising the budget. The draft legislation also inserts some control over the local legislative body, which in Memphis’ case would be the Shelby County Board of Commissioners. It would block the local body from signing off on the district’s budget without the oversight board’s approval. Tennessee Republicans frequently point to the 2023 state takeover of Houston public schools as a model for MSCS’ intervention, where state education leaders immediately fired and appointed a new superintendent. The current MSCS board unanimously approved a three-year permanent contract for Superintendent Roderick Richmond on March 31. That contract puts the district on the hook for a nearly half-million dollar payout if the new state board decides to fire Richmond without cause. But the new bill would make it easier for the oversight board to fire Richmond with cause. The board could cite as cause for termination any refusal of the superintendent to follow their directives, or contributing to “deficiencies in the management, accounting, or internal controls of the LEA.” The legislation calls for the oversight board to conduct a comprehensive needs assessment that would essentially audit teacher staffing levels, including reviewing results of annual teacher evaluations. The board would be authorized to review any and all records from the district, including teacher evaluation records and student disciplinary reports. The oversight board would then be tasked with developing a “transformation plan that identifies performance and operational goals” in the district.The board could hire a contractor to draw up those assessments and plans.The oversight board would be subject to Tennessee’s open meetings and public records law. No other criteria are outlined in the draft legislation. Oversight board members could be removed by the governor and legislative leaders at any time, for any reason. Oversight board members must be compensated at the same rate as school board members under the legislation. They can hire up to three staff members total, in addition to reassigning a staff member from the district office. The district must pay for those salaries, but they can petition the Department of Education for some funding. “It would almost be like you’re paying for two school boards,” Akbari said. Costs rise for audit, intervention modelIntervention advocates, led by Memphis Republicans and party leaders like House Speaker Cameron Sexton, have funneled even more state dollars into the audit effort. Gov. Bill Lee is directing another $1.7 million to complete the audit in next year’s budget, which grows the total price tag of the audit to $8.7 million.And it’s possible lawmakers could direct another $1 million to help fund a new oversight board.The nearly $10 million in state funds far outpaces the potential fraud and waste findings revealed by the audit thus far. The ongoing financial audit, which covers a three-year period, revealed around $1.1 million in funds that auditors said could be potential waste and abuse. Another $1.7 million was flagged as spending misaligned with district policies that didn’t rise to waste and abuse thresholds. That amounts to less than 1% of the district’s operating budget over the three-year period being audited. Tennessee Republican leaders suggested the early findings were among the worst audit findings they had ever seen, pointing to mismanagement of employee paperwork and alleged cooperation issues with district officials. Democrats on Monday pushed back on these assertions. Akbari, the Memphis Democrat, pointed to previous school audits in Maury and Polk counties, which found millions in mismanaged funds and major control failures. Neither of those audits triggered a state-funded forensic audit or state intervention.Melissa Brown is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Tennessee. Contact Melissa at mbrown@chalkbeat.org.

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美國政府在4月20日正式啟動關稅退款申請機制，針對先前由美國總統特朗普（Donald Trump）依緊急權力法課徵、但遭法院裁定違法的進口關稅，開始受理企業申請退還，總金額預估超過1660億美元，成為美國史上規模最大的關稅退款行動之一。

美国政府在4月20日正式启动关税退款申请机制，针对先前由美国总统特朗普（Donald Trump）依紧急权力法课征、但遭法院裁定违法的进口关税，开始受理企业申请退还，总金额预估超过1660亿美元，成为美国史上规模最大的关税退款行动之一。