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OLYMPIA – All public schools in Washington would have to offer sex education programs, starting in kindergarten, under a bill passed Wednesday by the Senate. School districts would be required to adopt comprehensive, medically accurate policies for sexual health education for all grades by the 2021 school year, according to the bill, which was sent to the House on a party-line vote. https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/feb/27/public-schools-in-washington-would-be-required-to-/...
More than half of prospective elementary school teachers fail a licensure exam used in 23 states for those applying to join the profession, with black and Hispanic applicants far less likely to pass. The nation’s most-used licensure test, the Praxis Elementary Education: Multiple Subjects, has a first-time pass rate of 46 percent, according to new data released Wednesday in a report by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a think tank that advocates for higher teacher preparation standards. More than a quarter of applicants fail t...
Michael Cohen told a House committee on Wednesday that President Trump directed him during the 2016 presidential campaign to send threatening letters to schools he attended vowing to hold them liable to “the fullest extent of the law” if the then-candidate’s SAT scores or grades were made public. The president’s former attorney presented the House Oversight and Reform Committee with a letter he said he wrote in 2015 at Trump’s direction that "threatened his high school, colleges, and the College Board not to release his grades or SAT scores....
How might things have been different when an armed man, intent on confronting an educator, walked into Frederick Douglass High School this month if Baltimore City Schools Police were allowed to carry guns on duty? As fate would have it, we know exactly what would have been different: Nothing. Douglass’ school police officer was unarmed at the time of the shooting, in accordance with state law. But his two supervisors were there, both were armed, and it didn’t stop the intruder from shooting special education assistant Michael Marks twice. Nor...
WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (March 1, 2019) — Today, Hy-Vee, Inc. announced its commitment to delivering much-needed milk to local food banks in its eight-state region by partnering with The Great American Milk Drive throughout the month of March. This is the third consecutive year of the companywide partnership. During the monthlong campaign, every Hy-Vee store will offer customers the opportunity to donate $2 or $4 toward the purchase of milk when they check out. At the end of the month, all donations will be used to purchase milk from area p...
Farm By The Lake's Skeeter Beater Snow Shoe Race held on March 2, 2019 in Bagley, MN proved to be fun for all. Bringing about a new race tradition to the area. Combining the already popular pastime of snow shoeing with a little competition; what better way to enjoy the tons of snow delivered this year. Racers geared up next to a campfire with great volunteers and port-a-potties at the ready. Volunteers from the Bagley Fire Dept. were well equipped with snowmobile, Ranger Quad-track, and truck....
Chad Filey To Perform Farm By The Lake's Storyteller Series March 10, 2019 3:00 PM Bagley Public Library Free and Open to the Public Family Friendly Event Author, Comedian, and Storyteller are just a few words used to describe Chad Filley. This versatile communicator has entertained audiences of all ages throughout the United States and Canada. Think of an audience and Chad has probably performed for them. He's been everywhere man, just like Johnny Cash. He's spoken at corporate functions,...
Anthony Broadman of the prestigious Galanda Broadman law firm just wrote about tribal disenrollment for greed and power so let's explore a little Pechanga greed and power. Since 2006, the year of our disenrollment, the Hunter family has lost $3,484,000 per person, in per capita payments alone. We arrived at that figure by taking the last full year of per capita $268,000/12 months ($22,333) and multiplying that loss times 156 months of disenrollment (13 years). 95 adults at the time of disenrollment equals: $330,975,000 https...
Three years after her daughter vanished after a night out visiting friends, Evelyn Chartrand is still looking for answers, and for her daughter, Lorlene Bone. "I still think about her every day," Chartrand told CBC News in an interview from her home in Swan River, Man., on Saturday. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/lorlene-bone-three-years-sapotaweyak-1.5040534...
John Wayne has been dead for 40 years, but his famous 1971 Playboy interview continues to make headlines. The controversial interview was unearthed again last month and went viral on Twitter, and its content caused some to call to remove the movie legend’s name from an Orange County, California, airport, where a nine-foot bronze statue of Wayne is fitted at the entrance. But in a new interview with CNN, John Wayne’s son, Ethan Wayne, defended his father, by saying quotes from the nearly 50-year-old interview were being taken out of con...
BEAUREGARD, Ala. (AP) — A tornado roared into southeast Alabama and killed at least 22 people and injured several others Sunday, part of a severe storm system that caused catastrophic damage and unleashed other tornadoes around the Southeast. "We are at 22 right now. Unfortunately, I feel like that number may rise yet again," Lee County Sheriff Jay Jones said of the death toll. https://www.yahoo.com/news/powerful-storms-prompt-tornado-warnings-alabama-georgia-210943103.html...