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Mar 10 2023
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9th Grade Girl Sues SC High School Over Pledge Of Allegiance Confrontation
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The parents of a ninth grade South Carolina student who said she was accosted by a teacher for walking to class instead of stopping and reciting the Pledge of Allegiance are suing the teacher, principal, school district and state education officials. Marissa Barnwell said she was walking quietly to class and decided not to stop for the pledge or a moment of silence that
HuffPostApr 27 2023
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Alabama Governor Defends Dismissal of Cabinet Member
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey defended her decision announced last week to remove Secretary of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education Barbara Cooper over the use of the training guide, saying that she thought teachers need to “focus on basics.” “The teacher resource book that I looked at had all those references to different kind of lifestyles and equity and this and that and the other,"
U.S. News & World ReportJul 31 2023
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Lawsuit seeks to block first religious charter school in the US
Nine state residents and the Oklahoma Parent Legislative Action Committee filed a lawsuit on Monday to stop the nation’s first openly religious charter school from operating. Oklahoma’s Statewide Virtual Charter School Board had voted 3-2 last month to approve the application of the St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School. The plaintiffs, represented by organizations including Americans
The HillApr 27 2023
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School staffers charged after 7-year-old special education student told to eat his own vomit
Five staff members at a suburban Indianapolis school have been charged with neglect or failure to report neglect after a 7-year-old special education student was told to eat his own vomit, authorities said. According to the Brownsville Police Department, video showed the incident and the involvement of the staff members. The Hendricks County Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday charged a teacher and
CBS News (Online)Jul 31 2023
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Scutari Named Acting NJ Governor, As Lt. Gov. Oliver Is Hospitalized
TRENTON, NJ — The New Jersey Senate President has stepped in as chief of state Monday, as Gov. Phil Murphy is on a vacation and Lt. Gov Sheila Oliver is undergoing medical care. Democrat Nicholas Scutari of Union County will assume the duties of Acting Governor, while Oliver is receiving undisclosed medical care at Cooperman Barnabas Medical Center, said Communications Director Mahen Gunaratna
Patch.comJul 31 2023
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Trucking giant Yellow shuts down on verge of bankruptcy, Teamsters say
One of the country’s largest freight haulers is shutting down and on the verge of bankruptcy, dragged down by years of ballooning debt and a sudden loss of business. Yellow employs some 30,000 people, including 22,000 Teamsters. The union said it received a legal notice Sunday of the pending bankruptcy filing. The Nashville-based company did not respond to a request for comment. Formerly YRC
Washington PostJul 31 2023
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‘Biden is Jimmy Carter of 2020s’: Chris Christie stops bashing Trump long enough to flip the script on CNN
CNN learned the hard way that Chris Christie is no fan of “Bidenomics” as the Republican presidential hopeful gave an answer that wasn’t what anchor Kasie Hunt was expecting. The former New Jersey governor continued his string of Sunday morning television appearances on “State of the Union” where he took a break from his nonstop bashing of former President Donald J. Trump to lower the boom on
Bizpac ReviewJul 31 2023
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Trucking Giant Yellow Ceases Operations
Trucking Giant Yellow Ceases Operations By Todd Maiden of FreightWaves Yellow's bankruptcy filing could be announced Monday Less-than-truckload carrier Yellow Corp. ceased all operations at 12 p.m. Sunday, according to a notice on the gates at its terminals. Separate internal documents showed the procedures for closing the facilities as well as “talking points” to be used when informing union
ZeroHedgeJul 27 2023
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ACLU of Hawaiʻi files lawsuit against city for homeless sweeps, enforcement actions
The American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaiʻi is challenging the City and County of Honolulu's sweeps of homeless encampments. This lawsuit targets the city’s sit-lie ban, park closure hours and sidewalk nuisance laws. It requests the court stop these actions, "unless and until there is adequate shelter." "Our hope is that the court will vindicate the rights of our houseless clients, other
Hawaii Public RadioJun 07 2023
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D.C. reaches 100 homicides at earliest date in 20 years
The District of Columbia has recorded 100 homicides at its earliest date in two decades, according to police data. Crime data from the Metropolitan Police Department shows that the city documented 102 homicides through Tuesday, June 6 — a 19% increase from the 86 slayings witnessed in D.C. through the same period last year. The D.C. Police Union said the 100-homicide threshold hasn’t been
Washington Times