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Apr 25 2023
News
Minnesota high school graduation rates up slightly in 2022
ST. PAUL — High school graduation rates climbed slightly last year in Minnesota after dipping in 2021, according to new data from the state education department. Four-year graduation rates for Minnesota high school seniors rose to 83.6% in 2022, a 0.2% gain from the year before, the Department of Education reported Tuesday, April 25. With that gain, the state is close to reaching pre-pandemic
Duluth News TribuneApr 25 2023
News
Rochester Public Schools improves graduation rate in 2022 over previous year, beats state average
ROCHESTER — The four-year graduation rate for Rochester Public Schools improved in 2022 as students continued to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The district-wide graduation rate for 2022 registered at 85.9%, more than two percentage points higher than both the state average and the district's rate from 2021, according to data released by the Minnesota Department of Education
Post-BulletinFeb 15 2023
News
Denver International Airport's delayed flights outpace national rate
You're more likely to have a delayed flight at Denver International Airport than you are at practically any other airport in the country, new data shows. Driving the news: 76% of domestic flights from DIA departed on time in November 2022, compared with the national rate of 81%, per the latest Bureau of Transportation Statistics figures. • Data also shows Denver's airport trailed the national
AxiosApr 21 2023
News
Charts show how Oakland compares with A’s potential new home in Las Vegas
The Oakland Athletics are making big steps towards a move to Las Vegas. Why? Some of the answer lies in demographic trends. The Chronicle looked at population and economic data to see how the A’s likely new home compares with its current home. It shows that unlike Oakland, Las Vegas has seen growth in its population and economy in recent years. Plus, the typical home still costs about half of
San Francisco ChronicleJun 01 2023
News
A Visual Breakdown of America’s Stagnating Number of Births
About 3.66 million babies were born in the U.S. in 2022, essentially unchanged from 2021 and 15% below the peak hit in 2007, according to new federal figures released Thursday.
The provisional total—3,661,220 births—is about 3,000 below 2021’s final count, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. Final government data expected
Wall Street Journal (News)May 04 2023
News
Anglo American falls Thursday, underperforms market
Shares of Anglo American PLC AAL, slid 1.49% to £23.77 Thursday, on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the FTSE 100 Index UKX, falling 1.10% to 7,702.64. Anglo American PLC closed £16.59 short of its 52-week high (£40.36), which the company achieved on June 7. Trading volume (2.3 M) remained 2.3 million below its 50-day average volume of 4.6 M.
MarketWatchMay 09 2023
News
Even Senate sponsors are skeptical of bills to shield kids online
The Senate is teeming with proposals, many bipartisan, to combat what supporters say is Big Tech’s failure to combat child pornography and otherwise promote the safety and privacy of minors online.
There’s been movement on several of these bills. But Senate passage, let alone enactment, for any of them still seems elusive because of opposition from powerful opponents.
The tech
Roll CallApr 20 2023
News
Pet Adoption In The Orange Area: See New Local Dogs, Cats
If you’re looking to add a fluffy ball of four-legged love and affection to your family, you should check out these Orange area animal shelters for a pet you can adopt. About 6.5 million pets and other companion animals are given to animal pounds each year nationwide, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. However, only half of all shelter animals — about 3
Patch.comApr 20 2023
News
Brookfield Area Pet Adoption: Ivy, Squiggy, Lenny & More
If you've been hoping to add a fluffy ball of four-legged love and affection to your life, start with these Brookfield area animal shelters for a pet you can take home. About 6.5 million pets are given to animal pounds each year nationwide, according to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. However, only around half of all shelter animals are adopted each year, ASPCA
Patch.comMay 14 2023
Opinion
Let us now praise single moms
Roughly 24 million, or one-third of all American children under age 18, are living with an unmarried parent, according to a 2018 Pew Research Center analysis of US Census Bureau data. And 81% of those single parent homes are headed by a mom.
This has been a growing trend since the late 1960s. The number of kids being raised by mostly single moms has more than doubled between 1968 and
CNN (Online News)