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This story was published in partnership with WBEZ and the Chicago Sun-Times.Sign up for Chalkbeat Chicago’s free daily newsletter to keep up with the latest news on Chicago Public Schools.The Chicago Teachers Union announced Monday it will endorse only 15 candidates in the upcoming school board race in which all 21 seats are up for election — a decision that could make it difficult for the union to hold onto its majority.The union will back 10 incumbents who they supported in the election two years ago or were appointed by Mayor Brandon Johnson. Johnson, a former organizer for the CTU, is an ally of the union. Notably absent from their list of endorsements is Yesenia Lopez, who won in 2024 with the union’s endorsement, but occasionally voted independently of other CTU-aligned school board members over the past year and half. CTU last month endorsed their political director Hilario Dominguez in the citywide race for school board president. There are four other people running for that seat. In the six districts where the CTU did not endorse anyone, it was because the race had only one candidate or there’s no candidate aligned with the CTU.One of the five non-incumbents getting CTU’s nod is Tameka Walton, who the union said is mounting a write-in campaign. Walton’s petition signatures were challenged and the Chicago Board of Elections is expected to make decisions on petition challenges Tuesday.Angel L. Velez, the incumbent vice president of the board who was appointed by Johnson and filed to run for his seat in district 9a, also announced on social media last week that he did not have enough valid signatures to stay on the ballot. That leaves Brittany Bailey Preston, the wife of state Sen. Willie Preston, as the only candidate in the race.Juan Rangel, the CEO of the Urban Center, a political action committee paying for many of the petition challenges, said Cydney Wallace, a Johnson appointee running in 8b is also expected to be removed from the ballot. CTU did not include Velez or Wallace in their endorsements.The CTU has been seen as a politically powerful force, especially after getting Johnson elected, but it remains to be seen how much their endorsement matters. In the first school board election in 2024, the union endorsed in all 10 races and only four of their candidates were victorious. Still, the union had a friendly school board because Johnson appointed 11 people, giving them enough backers to have a majority on the 21-member board.CTU-backed candidates would have to win 11 races to hold onto a majority. The CTU’s two political action committees had a balance of less than $200,000 as of March 31, the last time quarterly filings were due. New reports are due out on Wednesday. The union also boasts more than 30,000 members that can knock on doors and get out the vote, which will be important in the Nov. 3 election where turnout could be low. Kimberly Walls-Kirk, chair of the CTU’s political action committee, says the union’s endorsements carry weight with voters because they trust teachers.“I’m the parent of a child who graduated from a Chicago Public School. I’m a teacher in Chicago Public Schools,” she said. “So if I have a vision of what learning conditions look like for my child, then I, as a teacher, am one of the best people to endorse a candidate.”A handful of other political action committees have already raised more than a million each and have already started donating money to candidates. Rangel said he was surprised that the CTU wasn’t more organized as they approached this election. The Urban Center PAC is supported by centrist billionaires and pro-charter groups.“The CTU has a reputation of having first-class, first-grade political operations, but I think they’ve been kind of sloppy on this this time around, and I’m not sure the exact reason why,” he said.Dominguez, the CTU’s endorsed presidential candidate, blamed the lack of challengers in some races on the fact that it is a volunteer position that is essentially a full-time job, he said. Andrew Broy, the president of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools, said that based on 2024 election results, the power of a CTU endorsement is a “mixed bag” — more helpful in some well-to-do or gentrifying areas such as the North Side and Logan Square, and less so on the Southwest and Northwest Side. Overall, he said, recent opinion polls suggest the union’s popularity has dipped. “That might blunt the positive impact of a CTU endorsement,” Broy said. Sarah Karp covers education for WBEZ. Follow her on X @WBEZeducation and @sskedreporter. Mila Koumpilova is Chalkbeat Chicago’s senior reporter covering Chicago Public Schools. Contact Mila at mkoumpilova@chalkbeat.org.

Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez, one of the leading candidates in the Democratic primary for governor, fired her campaign manager over the weekend due to mismanagement of financial reports. She told reporters Monday that her campaign will continue, calling it a “bump in the road,” although the error means she has hundreds of thousands of […]

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Fa uèi dètz ans que Niça patiguèt l’atemptat mai grèu e mortífer de l’istòria contemporanèa d’Occitània. La nuèch del 14 de julhet de 2016, un camion menat pel terrorista Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel se roncèt contra la molonada amassada al Camin dei Anglés per contemplar los fuòcs artificials de la fèsta nacionala francesa. Lo bilanç definitiu foguèt d’86 mòrts e de centenats de nafrats. Continua llegint

Aqueste dimècres 8 de julh, se jogava dins un estadi de Brisbana sold out, la tresena oposicion State of Origine de la sason entre Queensland e Nòvas-Galas del Sud. Una partida decisiva, vist que cada formacion aviá remportat un rescontre. Queensland èra favorit, mas i a de jorns ont lo rebomb de la pauma, una passa mal assegurada, los còps de pè aproximatius, las recepcions contestadas, una decision arbitrala, … viran pas de ton costat. Continua llegint

Lo darrèr episòdi deu huelheton de l’eleccion presidenciala (que hè pas pas que de començar), es la condemnacion de Marine Le Pen peu destornament d’uns milions d’euros a favor de sa sòr, de sa cunhada, de son miador de veitura e d’autas personas de sons tanhents. La question que tot lo monde se pausava èra: «E se va presentar a l’eleccion?» Au paréisher, òc, seré possible. Vau pas tròp insistir sus çò qu’avèva dit un jorn suu hèit que l’inegibilitat deveré estar «a vida», la paraula d’una persona politica vau pas trò car, ac sabèm plan dempuèi longtemps. Continua llegint

Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. seems better suited as the subject of medical research than its arbiter. He’s not an editor or peer reviewer, and he’s definitely (and thankfully) not a judge. So why is he issuing veiled threats to scientific publications — in the process eroding vital source material for journalists?His title may be impressive (less so given that it’s from the same administration that appointed a mortgage regulator to run the nation’s intelligence agencies). But beyond that, he’s just some quack with a famous name who admits to dumping a bear carcass in Central Park and all sorts of other nonsense.Legal authority aside, he is in no position to question brainworm-free scholars’ judgment, let alone censor them. We haven’t conducted a survey, but we’re pretty sure Americans would prefer medical literature not be subject to the whims of a guy who used to cut off roadkill raccoon penises when he wasn’t snorting coke off toilet seats.But that didn’t stop him from firing off a letter last month to the editor-in-chief of Toxicology Reports, demanding a fuller accounting of why the journal pulled a study linking infant vaccines to sudden death, then posting the letter on social platform X for his millions of followers to see. He gave the editor two weeks to comply — a deadline he had no power to set for a demand he had no authority to make in the first place.Plus, with thousands of Americans suffering from explosive diarrhea after cuts to foodborne illness monitoring under Kennedy’s watch, people aren’t really in a position to meet tight deadlines right now.Kennedy is not the first Trump official to pull this kind of stunt. Last year, Ed Martin, then the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, sent a letter to a pulmonary medicine journal published in Illinois by the American College of Chest Physicians. Martin informed the editor that journals like his were “conceding that they are partisans in various scientific debates” and that he had “certain responsibilities.”Martin’s letter asked a series of questions about the journal’s editorial decisions. Other journals, including the New England Journal of Medicine, reportedly got similar correspondence from the since-disgraced lawyer.Neither Martin nor Kennedy has any legal basis for these demands. HHS, of course, doesn’t regulate what a private scientific journal decides to publish or retract. And as a U.S. attorney, Martin’s job was to prosecute federal crimes in his district, not to police the editorial judgment of a specialty medical publication in another state with no connection to any case his office is handling.Rather than using his actual prosecutorial powers, like warrants and subpoenas, Martin preferred to send intimidating (albeit typo-ridden) letters on government stationery and then post them on X to kiss up to Trump and his then-buddy Elon Musk.The correspondence from Martin and Kennedy is similar to Federal Communications Commission Chair Brendan Carr’s baseless letters to broadcasters that he claims aren’t serving the “public interest” because they report news Trump would prefer the public not know.In some ways, it’s even worse. At least Carr, unlike Martin and Kennedy, has some regulatory power over broadcast licensees — just not over their editorial decisions. And at least Carr’s victims are news companies that are likely to have First Amendment attorneys on retainer and some familiarity with the rights of journalists. They’re also accustomed to the spotlight. Niche medical journals, on the other hand, might not check those boxes.It’s also reminiscent of the Trump administration’s efforts to intimidate law firms, nonprofits, and others. The modus operandi is to use the appearance of government power, minus any legitimate legal process, to make an institution second-guess its independence. The more they get away with it, the more powerful a weapon it becomes.And all of it has downstream effects on the press. Medical journal articles, like research from nonprofits and facts exposed through litigation, are often cited by journalists as source material in coverage of everything from outbreaks to drug recalls to promising new treatments. When they’re censored, so is the news that reaches newspaper pages and the public.Kennedy’s conduct, like Martin’s and Carr’s, is obviously unconstitutional jawboning, or use of threats and coercion to censor speakers that the government can’t censor directly. It’s something conservatives used to oppose, in far less egregious cases than this one. It needs to stop.Kennedy might have once gotten away with severing that poor raccoon from its manhood, but he should not get away with severing journalists from reliable sources.

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La Sala Cuarta de Apelaciones anuló la sentencia que absolvió al exfiscal anticorrupción Stuardo Campo y a otros dos exintegrantes del Ministerio Público, reabriendo el primer proceso penal en su contra. La resolución deja sin efecto el fallo que concluyó que no existían elementos para condenarlos y reactiva la criminalización en ese primer proceso contra ... Read more The post Tres magistrados de la Sala Cuarta de Apelaciones anulan sentencia que absolvía a exfiscal Stuardo Campo  appeared first on Prensa Comunitaria.

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