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DECATUR, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama school superintendent placed on leave after FBI agents showed up at his home during a probe is making about $15,500 a month in salary while not working. The Decatur Daily reported that Trey Holladay, superintendent of Athens city schools, remains on paid leave weeks after investigators visited his house during what an FBI spokesman called a “law enforcement action.” School board members voted unanimously to place Holladay on leave afterward, and he is being paid his annual salary of $186,134 in monthly insta...
This article was produced in partnership with the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Aubrie Sloan expected to start sixth grade in a virtual classroom where she would learn from her teacher each day and engage with classmates for the first time since the coronavirus forced her school to close in March. Instead, she marks her attendance at Kaibeto Boarding School, on the western side of the Navajo Nation, by texting or calling her teacher each morning. Then she dives into...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Monday that the federal government will begin distributing millions of rapid coronavirus tests to states this week and urged governors to use them to reopen schools for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. The move to vastly expand U.S. testing comes as confirmed new COVID-19 cases remain elevated at more than 40,000 per day and experts warn of a likely surge in infections during the colder months ahead. It also comes just five weeks before the November election, with Trump facing c...
ST. PAUL, Minn. (FOX 9) - Transgender students are entitled to use the locker room that matches their identity, the Minnesota Court of Appeals affirmed in a decision published Monday. The court found it to be a violation of both the Minnesota Human Rights Act and the Minnesota Constitution for school districts to segregate transgender students from their peers in locker rooms. In February of 2019, the civil rights group Gender Justice and the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota argued that the Anoka-Hennepin School District violated a...
** EXTERNAL POSITION OPENING ** SLOT MANAGER RATE OF PAY: Depending upon experience LOCATION: Seven Clans Casinos –Thief River Falls, MN OPENS: September 29, 2020 CLOSES: October 12, 2020 OBJECTIVE: The Slot Manager is responsible for the overall administration, operation, compliance and financial success of the Slot Department and reports to the General Manager of the 7 Clans Casino. DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Develops a slot floor plan with a machine mix that exceeds our guest's exp...
Next Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 7 p.m., MPR News will present its next virtual event as part of the In Focus series, led by MPR over the next year to bring awareness, dialogue and potential solutions to Minnesota's persistent racial disparities. Next week's topic will focus on education. In Focus: Equity in Education will be hosted by MPR News' Angela Davis and will feature a conversation with several community leaders who have been working on various approaches to address racial disparities in...
A virtual tour of portraits by famed Chickasaw artist Mike Larsen is featured during the Chickasaw Nation Annual Meeting and Festival. Available through Oct. 3, the guided tour takes place in the Aaittafama' room at the Chickasaw Cultural Center, a space which houses rotating art collections expressive of Chickasaw people's history and culture. The tour is available online at AnnualMeeting.Chickasaw.net or Facebook.com/TheChickasawNation. Larsen is a world-renowned painter and sculptor who has...
On Monday evening, Sept. 28, Blackfeet Chairman Tim Davis noted Glacier County having posted 133 cases of COVID-19 over the week-end. “It’s very alarming,” he said, with workers at the Blackfeet Care Center, Tribal Security and EMS having tested positive. As a result, he said, the Tribe decided to go to a 14-day shutdown to keep the virus from spreading further. “Our staff is overworked and they’re testing positive, so it’s a real pandemic and folks need to wear masks and follow social distancing. It’s not like the flu,” Davis said. http://ww...
ATHENS, Ga., Sept. 29, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- University of Georgia researchers have demonstrated that neck gaiters can provide a level of protection equivalent to masks when used as a face-covering. Researchers from the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences sought to test the effectiveness of various face masks and gaiters in reducing the disbursement of respiratory droplets during speech. The gaiters were compared to no mask at all, as well as to multiple two-layer, washable, breathable cloth...
Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) will introduce legislation Tuesday to make the federal government address the "intergenerational trauma" it has caused for Native Americans with its former Indian boarding school policy, a nearly century-long policy of forcibly removing Indigenous children from tribal lands and putting them into boarding schools to be assimilated into white culture. Their bill, the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy Act,...
WASHINGTON - On Sept. 21, the House of Representatives unanimously passed S.227, Savanna's Act, a bill that will create new guidelines for responding to cases of missing and murdered indigenous women and create incentives for its implementation. Savanna's Act now heads to the White House to be signed into law after having been passed in the Senate by unanimous consent last March. Savanna's Act is named in honor of Savanna LaFontaine-Greywind, a member of the Spirit Lake Tribe, who vanished from...