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Apr 26 2024
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N.J. school district cuts 27 teachers and employees due to ‘economic issues’
The Asbury Park school board cut 27 teachers, aides and other jobs “due to economic issues” in a vote Wednesday night following recommendations from the district’s acting superintendent. The layoffs will take effect July 1, according to an agenda listing the eliminated positions on the Asbury Park School District website. Several staff members, former employees, parents and community members
nj.comApr 23 2024
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Protesters disrupt Tennessee Capitol after guns for teachers bill passes
Tennessee lawmakers on Tuesday passed a bill that would allow school staff to carry concealed handguns on campus, sparking protesters to rally at the state Capitol in Nashville. The Republican-backed bill passed in a 68-28 vote and will now head to the desk of GOP Tennessee Governor Bill Lee, according to The Washington Post. The measure was previously passed in the state Senate earlier this
NewsweekApr 20 2024
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N.J. teacher charged by police after month-long investigation
A Marlboro Memorial Middle School teacher that was accused of inappropriately touching a student in a school hallway was charged Friday with a petty disorderly persons offense, police said. Jenna Sciabica was charged with one count of harassment-offensive touching after a month-long investigation by Marlboro police with the assistance of the school district, officials said. The investigation
nj.comApr 26 2024
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Maryland Teacher Arrested After Allegedly Using AI to Frame School Principal
‘The results from that analysis indicated the recording contained traces of AI-generated content,’ police said. An athletic director at a high school in Baltimore, Maryland, has been arrested for allegedly using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to create a fake audio recording in which the school’s principal appeared to make racist comments. Dazhon Darien, a 31-year-old physical education
The Epoch TimesApr 20 2024
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Las Vegas Casino Unions Preparing To Take On Trump Again
It is the Democrats' not-so-secret weapon in Nevada -- a vast army of maids, cooks and bartenders that helped deliver this razor-tight swing state for Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in 2016 and 2020. Now ahead of November's election, the Culinary Union, which represents 60,000 mainly Las Vegas-based hotel and casino workers, is preparing to mobilize its formidable network against Donald Trump
Barron'sApr 26 2024
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Mills vetoes bill to require that developers of clean energy projects work with unions
Gov. Janet Mills vetoed a bill on Friday that would have required companies leasing state land for clean energy projects to work with unions hoping to represent their workers. The bill, L.D. 373, is aimed at the offshore wind power terminal and manufacturing facility the Mills administration aims to build in Searsport, but Mills said she vetoed the bill because it contained ambiguous language
Portland Press HeraldApr 20 2024
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Biden Congratulates Tennessee Auto Plant on Historic Unionization Drive
A Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee voted to unionize Friday night, the first auto manufacturing facility to unionize in the American South since the 1940s. President Joe Biden issued a congratulations to the newly-formed union, which received 73 percent votes in favor among 3,613 workers, for “their historic vote for union representation with the United Auto Workers.” “I was proud
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