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ratings by using the state’s new law allowing parents to opt their children out of standardized tests. It wasn’t the only troubling disclosure; the state reported that an increasing number of parents throughout the commonwealth are having their children skip the annual state tests. Both facts should give pause to lawmakers who this year put their imprimatur on the pernicious opt-out movement, as well as Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), who signed it into law. Tests provide objective information about how well students are doing and what hel...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — Returning to classrooms across the state and region, students have been busy adjusting to the leadership styles of their new teachers— a process many of those same educators have also recently undergone with the leadership in their district. During the past decade, an average of 55 to 65 school superintendents leave their post each year in Massachusetts. Tom Scott, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, said most school chiefs leave their position to take another sup...
PBS’ Spotlight Education week of educational programming. In this first installment, former PBS Digital Innovator Peter Van shares his thoughts and reactions following an advance screening of POV’s “All the Difference”. "All the Difference" airs tonight on PBS stations nationwide. Check your local listings. You can also follow the conversation on Twitter using #SpotlightEduPBS and #TeachBoldly. Around mid-May each school year, the seniors in my classes at Lindblom Math & Science Academy in Chicago start to celebrate the end of high school....
Budget season has begun, and the state's top education leader has put in a request for an additional $19 million. State agencies this month submitted their requests to Gov. Doug Ducey. The governor will over the next few months develop a proposal he will roll out to the Legislature and the public in January. Education funding is expected to be a key point of debate during the next session of the Legislature. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona-education/2016/09/12/supt-diane-douglas-wants-19-million-budget-g...
Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan may have faded from the limelight when he stepped down from his perch in the Obama administration last year, but he didn't stop charging ahead on the education issues that he's most passionate about. He's currently working with the Emerson Collective, a philanthropy run by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Steve Jobs, to help pair students in Chicago (his home town) with mentors, internships and jobs. As of late, he's been spending a lot of time in Chicago's Cook County jail, meeting with those...
In December 2012, a Senate subcommittee was convened to examine the school-to-prison pipeline, a national trend in which overly punitive school discipline policies push students out of school and into the criminal-justice system. Among the witnesses at the first-ever congressional hearing on this issue was Edward Ward, at the time an honor-roll student in his sophomore year at DePaul University and a recent graduate of Orr Academy on the West Side of Chicago. He offered an eye-opening first-hand account of his high-school experience. “From t...
So says Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, in a formal opinion: State and federal law do not prohibit an individual that holds an Arizona Concealed Carry Weapons Permit from carrying a concealed handgun on private school grounds in Arizona. Additionally, State and federal law permit individuals to possess firearms in school zones for use in a program approved by the private school…. Although [Arizona] law allows individuals to carry concealed without a permit, Arizona continues to offer [concealed carry licenses]. Licensure provides c...
No amount of remorse or hard work, it seems, will offset for many landlords Artiste Mayfield’s criminal past. She’s got a degree and a job, and an apartment at a building for recovering addicts. She’s ready to find a mainstream apartment. But she finds no one will rent to her, owing to her criminal past. “I feel bad about making bad decisions,” Mayfield said. “I am doing all that I am supposed to do. There is so much red tape in the way. You can’t move on.” http://www.startribune.com/aggressive-tenant-screening-creates-class...
On paper, it had all the makings of a revenge shooting. Minneapolis police detectives figured that the perpetrator crept up to the dining room window under the cover of darkness one night last week, and squeezed off a trio of shots from a semiautomatic handgun. All three bullets found their intended target, a wheelchair-bound man who police say was hit in the torso, wrist and leg, but is expected to survive. It wasn’t his first brush with death, either — the victim, who was unnamed in a police report, had been shot twice before: once in 200...
People in high-deductible health plans generate fewer medical bills overall, a new report finds, but they wind up paying more out-of-pocket than those in traditional health plans. Neither finding is surprising, study authors said, but they show employers and workers the consequences of selecting plans with big deductibles that are becoming more commonplace. High-deductible plans come with lower premiums for workers. But the study shows enrollees should expect to spend more on the back end should they use care, said Amanda Frost, a researcher...
OSAN AIR BASE, South Korea — The United States on Tuesday sent two nuclear-capable supersonic bombers streaking over ally South Korea in a show of force meant to cow North Korea after its recent nuclear test and also to settle rattled nerves in the South. The B-1B bombers, escorted by U.S. and South Korean jets, were seen by an Associated Press photographer as they flew over Osan Air Base, which is 120 kilometers (75 miles) from the border with North Korea, the world's most heavily armed. The bombers were likely to return to Andersen Air F...
A motorist with a history of drunken driving and who was high on a cocktail of illicit drugs when he fatally struck a man walking on a Duluth sidewalk has been sentenced. David Andrew Smithson, 27, of Duluth, was sentenced Monday to four years in prison after pleading guilty to driving under the influence of a controlled substance when his minivan struck and killed 37-year-old Brian Respler on Dec. 19. With credit for time served in jail since his arrest, Smithson will spend a little more than two years in prison and serve the remainder of his...
Repercussions from Polaris Industries' massive recalls hammered home Monday as the recreational vehicle maker significantly downgraded its earnings expectations for the year, saying recall costs will now reach $120 million in 2016. The surprise downgrade, which lowered the earnings forecast by 43 percent, comes less than two weeks after Polaris recalled another 10,770 of its off-road four-wheelers, citing 19 new reports of vehicle fires that injured six people and destroyed 15 acres of Utah forest. This month's recalls are on top of the...
The economic outlook in rural Minnesota has brightened in recent years, though nearly half of residents outside the Twin Cities don't believe there are enough jobs in their communities paying a wage that can support a household. Nearly one-third of people in rural Minnesota believe the economy is improving, while only 18 percent think it's getting worse, the lowest level since 2000, according to a new survey from the Blandin Foundation. And belief that there are enough jobs that can support a family is increasing. About 47 percent of...
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton's stumbles as she left a 9/11 memorial ceremony put her health at the forefront of a presidential campaign in which the two major party nominees are among the oldest ever and have disclosed a limited amount of information about their medical history. The Democratic presidential nominee "felt overheated" Sunday and left the ground zero ceremony after about 90 minutes, her campaign said. A video of her departure shows Clinton appearing to stumble as three staff members hold her up and help her into a van. Clinton's d...
Having lost many of his service photos and mementos when his home flooded earlier this year, World War II veteran Cruce Lansford of Tulsa is more determined than ever to hang on to his memories. For that reason, this week’s Cherokee Warrior Flight couldn’t have come at a better time. One of six Cherokee Nation veterans who will depart Monday from Tulsa International Airport for Washington, D.C., Lansford, 90, is looking forward to the three-day trip and the chance to revisit old memories while making new ones. http://www.tul...
The #NoDAPL fight continues even after the Obama administration put a crucial portion of the controversial project on hold. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe celebrated on Friday after learning that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers won't allow construction at a key site near the #NoDAPL resistance camps in North Dakota. But they quickly moved for an injunction in federal court to protect cultural sites and burial grounds that aren't covered by the administration's extraordinary action. Their request, however, has...
A victory for the Standing Rock Sioux and environmentalists came Friday, as the government called for a pause in work on the Dakota Access pipeline. The announcement came shortly after a federal judge had ruled that construction could continue. For the time being, there will be no construction “within 20 miles east or west of Lake Oahe,” according to a joint statement by the Department of Justice, the Department of the Interior and the Army. Once the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers, which the Sioux consider sacred, Lake Oahe is...
NEAR CANNON BALL, N.D. — When visitors turn off a narrow North Dakota highway and drive into the Sacred Stone Camp, where thousands have come to protest an oil pipeline, they thread through an arcade of flags whipping in the wind. Each represents one of the 280 Native American tribes that have flocked here in what activists are calling the largest, most diverse tribal action in at least a century, perhaps since Little Bighorn. They have come from across the Plains and the Mountain West, from places like California, Florida, Peru and New Z...
After a roller coaster of action last week on the embattled Dakota Access pipeline, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe has walked away with nearly everything it wanted, for now. Minutes after a federal judge Friday crushed the Sioux's hopes for an injunction on the 1,200-mile oil project, the Obama administration stepped in with its own plan to press pause — drawing a quick shift from outrage to elation from pipeline opponents. "Our hearts are full," tribal Chairman David Archambault II said after the announcement. "This is an historic day for t...
UNION GAP, Wash. — Mishani Jack stood on the corner of Valley Mall Boulevard and Main Street on Sunday waving a homemade sign. It read “#NoDAPL You can’t drink oil.” It was the same sign she waved in North Dakota late last month, in the thick of a major protest over the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) project. She was among 30 Yakama tribal members who took the 18-hour drive to stand with the Standing Rock Sioux in opposition to the project. “When we heard about it, it hit close to home, as the Yakama Nation has faced very similar problems,...
Chairmen Bobby Sanchez and Vinton Hawley, of the Walker River and Pyramid Lake Paiute tribes, respectively, are plaintiffs in a major new federal voting-rights lawsuit, filed in federal court in Nevada. They are joined by three military veterans from their communities: Ralph Burns, Robert James and Johnny Williams Jr. “We know that [these veterans] have already paid for the equality we seek for all our people,” the two chairmen announced in a joint public statement. The lawsuit follows the rejection of tribal requests to Nevada’s chief elect...
PINE RIDGE –– After an hours-long hearing before the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council, Wakpamni District Tribal Council Representative, Jackie Siers, was reinstated after being suspended in early August. According to her testimony on Wednesday, Sept. 31, the complaints were brought against her and Sonia Little Hawk-Weston by OST Treasurer Melanie Two Eagle-Black Bull after a “heated confrontational Finance Committee Meeting between myself and the treasurer and Sonia Little Hawk-Weston” on July 21, 2016. Allegations of retaliation, corrupt...
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The family of woman who died this summer in Whiteclay hopes an investigation will yield answers about the circumstances of her death. Authorities have said Sherry Wounded Foot of Porcupine, South Dakota, died from head trauma, but they haven't released many details of the investigation and no arrests have been made. The Lincoln Journal Star reports (http://bit.ly/2c7BBFU ) that relatives say another family member died in 2012 in the Nebraska town that sells millions of cans of beer annually near South Dakota's Pine Ridge I...
Three years after its government splintered into disarray, most people on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation agree that its constitution needs to change. But a few weeks after the Blackfeet Tribal Business Council voted to send the draft of a new constitution to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for review, a vocal group of critics has emerged. Tribal member Gabe Grant and a group called “The Real People” have said the authors who drafted the new constitution didn’t do enough to gather community input. They also accuse the authors of pushing for ...
