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Aug 25 2022
Analysis
Is Biden's student debt forgiveness fair?
US President Joe Biden is cancelling billions of dollars of federal student loans. But what difference will it make?
On Wednesday, Mr Biden announced he will cancel up to $10,000 (£8,500) in federal student loans - used to fund higher education costs such as tuition and housing - for millions of Americans who earn less than $125,000 each year.
Mr Biden will also forgive $20,000
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Aug 01 2023
Perspectives Blog
Misinformation Watch: Is Florida Teaching Middle Schoolers That Slavery Benefited Black People?
A social studies curriculum recently approved by the Florida Board of Education is facing backlash over instruction regarding the history of slavery in the United States.
The language in question states that Africans enslaved in America developed skills that could benefit them personally.
Vice President Kamala Harris brought up the curriculum in numerous speeches soon after,
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May 03 2023
News
A Record Low 13% Of Eighth Grade Students Are Proficient In History
A Record Low 13% Of Eighth Grade Students Are Proficient In History Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com, The Nation's Report Card for history for 2022 is shockingly low. I have the solution... Nation's Report Card Please consider the NAEP History Report Card at Grade 8 for the US. NAEP reports scores at five selected percentiles to show changes over time in the scores for lower- (10th
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Mar 22 2023
News
A ballot proposition aims to put marijuana tax revenue toward easing Anchorage’s child care crisis
An Anchorage ballot proposition aims to address the city’s lack of child care through its existing marijuana retail tax. Proposition 14, which advocates call the “Care for Kids” measure, is backed by a bipartisan group. It would take the city’s marijuana sales tax money and dedicate it toward creating more access to child care and early education. It would fund reading programs, provide
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May 19 2023
News
Waukesha 'Rainbowland' Teacher Says District Plans To Fire Her
Classroom Teacher Melissa Tempel said she was informed of the impending recommendation for termination by Superintendent James Sebert on Monday, according to a news release published Wednesday by the Alliance for Education in Waukesha, a group formed by parents in 2021 to rally for safety amid the pandemic. In an email to Patch Friday, Sebert said it was an ongoing personnel matter and
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May 03 2023
News
New WI Hospital Safety Ratings Released: 2 Get 'D' Grade, 18 Get 'A'
Wisconsin hospitals rose in Leapfrogs rankings compared to last year, rising from No. 41 to No. 28. Over 26 percent of the state's hospitals saw an "A" grade, compared to just under 12 percent last year around this time. The higher marks come as the average risk of contracting deadly infections remains elevated nationwide after spiking to a five-year high during the pandemic, according to the
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May 03 2023
News
Hollywood strike: Writers demand more pay, new limits on ChatGPT
Thousands of television and movie writers represented by the union Writers Guild of America (WGA) went on strike yesterday. It's the first big Hollywood walkout since 2007, when some 12,000 members stopped working for 100 days. Today's strikers are demanding higher pay, plus minimum numbers of writers staffing writers' rooms (called "mandatory staffing" by studios and "preserving the writers'
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May 16 2023
News
United Airlines Holdings Inc. stock outperforms competitors on strong trading day
Shares of United Airlines Holdings Inc. UAL, inched 0.33% higher to $45.35 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, falling 0.64% to 4,109.90 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, falling 1.01% to 33,012.14. This was the stock's second consecutive day of gains. United Airlines Holdings Inc. closed $9.69 short of its
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May 31 2023
News
Adult filmmakers ask judge to delay Utah law requiring porn sites verify user ages
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Attorneys representing adult entertainers, erotica authors and sex educators on Wednesday asked a judge to put on hold a Utah law requiring porn and other adult websites verify user ages. The Free Speech Coalition and its co-plaintiffs argued the new state law violates their clients' First Amendment rights and intrudes on the privacy of individuals who want to view
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May 23 2023
News
Photos: A Year of Grieving and Struggling for Answers After Uvalde School Shooting
A year after a gunman shot and killed 19 children and two adults in a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school, the community is still searching for answers. The shooting at Robb Elementary is the deadliest school shooting in Texas history and the most fatal school attack in the country since the 2012 massacre in Newtown, Conn. In this photo essay, Education Week shares some of the indelible images
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