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Audrey Gaze was born blind but that has not stopper her from pursuing her love of music and desire to be a great pianist.

From festivals to exercising, Milwaukee is honoring Juneteenth in various ways. Learn where you can find a celebration here. The post Here are 8 ways to celebrate Juneteenth in Milwaukee this year appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

The New Mexico State Ethics Commission voted during its meeting today to make a “demand, and if necessary, file a civil action,” against New Chapter New Mexico to enforce the state’s Campaign Reporting Act.  New Chapter is a political committee that spent heavily in legislative primary elections. A phone call to the group’s treasure was […]

KUT’s Debbie Hiott believes University of Texas officials terminated her because she publicly pushed back against administration claims that the station’s security plans for an inaugural festival were insufficient. The post UT fires public radio station leader who challenged university statements about festival security appeared first on Austin Current.

Francisco Fonseca avalia que Senado faz articulações como forma de inviabilizar governo Lula e pretensão de reeleição Fonte

The Starkville Derby draws thousands of people to north Mississippi each spring. The festival's big attraction? Watching wiener dogs race.

Milhares de manifestantes denunciam, em Genebra, a reunião anual do G7. Uma coalizão europeia de feministas, sindicatos de base e movimentos associativos os convoca. Além de atos de rua, há debates, oficinas e plenárias. Algo de novo nas lutas anticapitalistas? The post G7: as rebeldias contra a “liderança capitalista” appeared first on Outras Palavras.

Eleito melhor jogador em campo no empate sem gols de Cabo Verde contra a Espanha, o goleiro Vozinha ressaltou o espírito de união da equipe africana, que estreou em uma Copa do Mundo surpreendendo uma das equipes consideradas favoritas ao título.

Faced with a budget shortfall this year, Washington Democratic lawmakers relied on spending cuts and other maneuvers to make ends meet. For one, they trimmed tens of millions of dollars in state funding for assisted living facilities that care for patients on Medicaid. The state is now being sued over that decision.  Washington’s leading assisted […]

Sioux Falls Mayor Paul TenHaken aired some of his frustrations Monday during a public Q&A with the Downtown Sioux Falls Rotary Club. Asked to share advice for the next mayor of South Dakota’s largest city, TenHaken suggested building a competent staff rather than suggesting how to navigate divisive issues like data centers. “The Legislature did […]

The Pink Umbrella Theater Co. hires actors with disabilities and offers shows and classes to the community. This week it opened its first permanent theater on Historic Mitchell Street. The post ‘Making sure that everyone is included’: Milwaukee’s first accessible theater opens doors to all appeared first on Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service.

The Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network, which treats sick and injured wildlife across the Central Coast, has treated 91 Brandt’s cormorants between January and now. This time last year, it saw just less than 20 The post Unusually high trend of dead seabirds found on Santa Barbara beaches, with El Niño likely to make it worse appeared first on Santa Barbara News-Press.

从表面上看，与德黑兰达成框架性协议后，特朗普似乎找到从中东战场抽身的办法，同时也使得国际市场能源逐渐降价。然而，在诸多分析人士眼中，协议的内容与特朗普战争之初宣布的目标相去甚远。

從表面上看，與德黑蘭達成框架性協議後，特朗普似乎找到從中東戰場抽身的辦法，同時也使得國際市場能源逐漸降價。然而，在諸多分析人士眼中，協議的內容與特朗普戰爭之初宣布的目標相去甚遠。

Sign up for Chalkbeat Colorado’s free daily newsletter to get the latest reporting from us, plus curated news from other Colorado outlets, delivered to your inbox.The state board that oversees publicly funded Colorado schools for students with intense needs is considering tightening the rules for how such schools are approved and regulated.The proposed changes come as one such school faces state sanctions and a potential loss of funding after complaints about how it physically restrains students, among other concerns. A Chalkbeat investigation found that the school, the Austin Centers for Exceptional Students in Westminster, had been sued at least five times in Arizona over staff allegedly breaking students’ arms and wrists before opening its first school in Colorado in 2024.In Colorado, schools for students with severe behavioral, mental health, or special education needs are called facility schools. They serve as placements of last resort for children whom the public schools can’t or won’t serve. Facility schools are funded in two ways: directly by the state and by school districts that pay tuition to send students there.As the number of facility schools dwindled over the years and more students were stuck on waiting lists, state lawmakers in 2023 boosted funding and created a new, less clinical category called a “specialized day school” in the hopes that more schools would open. It worked. In the past three years, 11 new facility schools have been approved by the Colorado Facility Schools Board of Education, and more are seeking to open.But issues with the Austin Centers for Exceptional Students, one of the first specialized day schools the board approved, raise questions about whether the process lacked adequate safeguards.The current requirements are “pretty minimal,” Colorado Senior Assistant Attorney General Jason Langberg said at a Thursday meeting of the Facility Schools Board.For instance, the rules “do not include provisions for out-of-state investigations,” a spokesperson for the Colorado Department of Education told Chalkbeat, meaning that Colorado might remain in the dark about lawsuits involving an out-of-state school that is seeking to open here. There is also no expiration date on facility school approval, the spokesperson said. And Langberg said the board has “almost no discretion” about whether to let a school open under the current rules. If a potential school meets basic requirements, the board must approve it, he said.Among the changes the board is considering are:Requiring potential facility schools to disclose in their applications any legal settlements, and any pending or finalized lawsuits, civil rights complaints, state complaints, or licensure proceedings within the previous five years. Allowing the board to use its discretion to approve, conditionally approve, or deny any facility school application based on a variety of factors, including the applicant’s history.Explicitly requiring facility schools to follow state rules on the restraint and seclusion of students and submit data to the state each year on their use of those practices.Increasing the frequency and specificity with which facility schools are monitored by the state from “periodically” to at least once every two years.Creating a process for parents, advocates, attorneys, and school districts to file complaints alleging violations of the state facility school rules.Changing state rules is not a fast process. If the process goes to plan, the new rules would go into effect in July 2027, an education department spokesperson said.One board member asked Langberg on Thursday what happens in the meantime if a facility school is violating state rules. The Colorado Department of Education is currently conducting “a broader review” of the Austin Centers for Exceptional Students after additional concerns about its restraint practices, staffing sufficiency, and more surfaced while the school was under a state corrective action plan this past school year. Langberg said he’d prepare a memo and share it with the board.Melanie Asmar is the bureau chief for Chalkbeat Colorado. Contact Melanie at masmar@chalkbeat.org.

A voter canvass rally for Brad Lander in Brooklyn’s Carroll Park on Sunday looked, in many ways, like the kind of gathering that helped propel New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to power. There were chants of “Free Palestine.” There was a speech by a prominent Columbia University protest leader. Speakers denounced the war in... The post Can a liberal Zionist win with the pro-Palestinian movement? Brad Lander is trying. appeared first on The Forward.

The conditions are expected to last through much of this week.

خبرگزاری‌های حکومتی در ایران از شنیده‌شدن صدای انفجار در حوالی تنگه هرمز خبر داده‌اند.

Five officials from Tarrant County were elected as directors to the North Central Texas Council of Governments executive board.

Damaging storms, one of which reached derecho status, spread across Iowa over the past week, but the state’s crop conditions remain stable, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture report. Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig said in a news release Monday that severe storms damaged crops and homes in eastern and southern Iowa during […]