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‘FREE’ COLLEGE COULD COST STATES BILLIONS: Eliminating tuition for all in-state undergraduates at public colleges could mean a budget hit of more than $1 billion in 15 different states, according to a new report out today by Mark Schneider, vice president and institute fellow at the American Institute for Research and a former commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics. The report, which is based on IPEDS data, was commissioned by the Campaign for Free College Tuition, a nonprofit that is pushing free college but isn’t looki...
four of its students were found dead, victims of what police suspect is gang-related violence. Police discovered the body of 15-year-old Nisa Mickens first, when on Sept. 13 a passing driver reported seeing her body on a road in Brentwood, a Long Island enclave about 45 miles east of Manhattan. Nisa had suffered lacerations and head trauma, police said. The county police commissioner would later say that her injuries were some of the worst he had ever seen. It was the day before Nisa’s 16th birthday. https://www.washingtonpo...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — School officials and police in Philadelphia say they are investigating social media posts with what they called "scary clown threats" that are now specifically mentioning district schools. Officials said in a joint statement meant to reassure parents and school communities that the school district's Office of School Safety alerted city police and the Office of Homeland Security on Saturday after learning about what they called "these disturbing social media posts." Both said the safety of children and communities s...
A Tennessee Middle School Counselor is being applauded for her actions that may have saved many lives when she talked down a student who came to school with a loaded gun and extra ammunition. Molly Hudgens, a counselor at Sycamore Middle School for 19 years, talked the 14-year-old boy out of what could have been a mass shooting just after his first period on Thursday when he requested to see her, police said. According to Cheatham County Sheriff Mike Breedlove, the teen said he planned to kill some teachers and a police officer, but was going...
Vermont Academy fired an assistant dean in 2007 for allegedly propositioning a 16-year-old female student in lewd text messages. Yet the boarding school still produced three recommendations for its former employee, and he landed a job months later at Wesleyan University in Connecticut — overseeing student sexual misconduct hearings. Brooks School in North Andover kicked a former admissions officer out of her campus residence in 1993 after she was accused of sexual misconduct with a male student. Even after her banishment — and Brooks’s $300,...
Independent Schools District No. 38 Red Lake, MN 56671 External Posting 10/03/2016 – 10/08/2016 Position Description: Special Education Paraprofessionals – Ponemah Supervisor: Assigned special education instructor. Bargaining Group: Minnesota School Employees Association Terms: Fulltime – 9 month employee Position Overview: To provide educational assistance to identified special education students. Major Position Duties: 1. If assigned to an individual student, the paraprofessional is respo...
ST. PAUL, Minn. – Producers of wild rice have recently elected members to serve on the Minnesota Cultivated Wild Rice Council board. Minnesota’s research and promotion councils play an important role in coordinating the ongoing development and promotion of agricultural products. Citing this valuable service offered by the council, Minnesota Agriculture Commissioner Dave Frederickson expressed his appreciation of producers who participated in the elections. “Through council elections, producers have a say in how their check-off dollars are s...
External Posting 10/03/2016 – 10/08/2016 Red Lake School District #38 is seeking applicants for a Cook I at RLES. Major Position Duties: 1. Assembles food supplies, measures ingredients for meals according to standardized recipes and/or instructions from Head Cook II and helps prepare meals 2. Serves food to students and stores food supplies according to policies and regulations 3. Cleans work areas, utensils and equipment using procedures established for sanitary precautions 4. Checks t...
Clearbrook – Republican state legislative candidate Matt Grossell today announced that the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund and the Minnesota Police & Peace Office Association Legislative PAC have endorsed his campaign. Grossell, who is a retired Deputy Sherriff of Clearwater County, is running to replace Rep. Dave Hancock in House District 2A. "As a retired law enforcement officer and firm believer in the Second Amendment, I couldn't be more honored to have the endorsement o...
Geneva (ICRC) – Nourane Houas, an ICRC staff member who was abducted late last year in Sanaa, has been released and is currently in Muscat. The ICRC would like to thank all those who have played a role in facilitating Ms Houas' release, in particular his majesty Sultan Qaboos, the Sultan of Oman. Ms Houas was abducted by gunmen on 01 December 2015 while on her way to work. She was travelling with a colleague when a group of armed men intercepted their car. Her colleague was released unharmed a few hours later while she was held for over ten m...
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Allina Health hospital nurses voted Monday night to reject a contract offer from their employer, increasing the likelihood that their walkout over health benefits, staffing and safety concerns will go down as the longest nursing strike in Minnesota history. While the Minnesota Nurses Association had not recommended a “no” vote, many nurses said they felt Allina’s latest offer was too similar to one they rejected in August, and to the terms their union negotiators rejected during last-ditch negotiations in September to avert a strike. A new s...
Hours after a pair of overnight shootings Monday in Minneapolis' Warehouse District left six people wounded, fed-up city and police officials unveiled new anti-crime programs aimed at cooling some notorious hot spots — among them just outside the First Precinct police station doors in the heart of downtown. Authorities said the shootings appeared to be tied to an escalating gang war. "This morning's shootings in downtown Minneapolis are unacceptable. This is not who we are as a city," said Mayor Betsy Hodges in announcing the new efforts, w...
The Vikings again stood tall in prime time, displaying a dominant defensive performance and getting some welcome balance on offense Monday night at rowdy U.S. Bank Stadium. The roof-rattling crowd and a defense that is arguably the NFL’s best rattled New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning just as they rattled Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers on national television two weeks ago. This time, though, the outcome was hardly in doubt as the Vikings beat the Giants 24-10 to improve to 4-0. The Giants scored a touchdown early in the fourth q...
WASHINGTON — In Tuesday's vice presidential debate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will step into a role that has become all too familiar during his time as Donald Trump's running mate: clean-up duty. It was Pence, a mild-mannered Midwesterner with strong conservative credentials, who tried to soften Trump's criticism of a military family and toughen the businessman's stance on Russia. When Trump waffled over endorsing House Speaker Paul Ryan in his August primary, Pence weighed in with a solid vote of confidence in his former congressional c...
It turns out that Donald Trump, he of the nonreleased tax filings, claimed a 1995 income loss so large — $916 million — that the tax software back then couldn’t handle it; it didn’t have enough space for all the numbers. His lawyer had to separately type in “-91” on front of “5,729,293” to report the loss. Such losses can be claimed against taxes owed for three prior years and 15 future years, leading the New York Times, which broke the story, to conclude that “it could have allowed him to legally avoid paying any federal income taxes for...
CARACAS, Venezuela — It was just a scraped knee. So 3-year-old Ashley Pacheco's parents did what parents do: They gave her a hug, cleaned the wound twice with rubbing alcohol and thought no more of it. Two weeks later, the little girl writhed screaming in a hospital bed. Her breathing came in ragged gasps as she begged passing patients for a sip of water. Her mother stayed day and night in the trauma unit. She kept Ashley on an empty stomach in case she might cut in front of hundreds of other patients for emergency surgery in one of the h...
HERNDON, Virginia — Donald Trump is drawing scorn from veterans' groups after he suggested that soldiers who suffer from mental health issues might not be as strong as those who don't. Trump was speaking at an event organized by the Retired American Warriors political action committee Monday when he was asked about his commitment to faith-based programs aimed at preventing suicides and helping soldiers suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder, traumatic brain injury and other issues. "When you talk about the mental health problems — whe...
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama and actor Leonardo DiCaprio teamed up on the White House South Lawn on Monday to sound a call for urgent action to combat climate change. Obama told a crowd gathered for the "South by South Lawn" festival of technology and music that the world is in "a race against time" to combat climate change. The president said the world gets an "incomplete" grade on its response to global warming so far, but he added that "the good news is we can still pass the test." http://www.startribune.com/obama-...
Patti Paulson hasn’t bought new clothes in four years. Instead, she shops her relatives’ closets. And her friends’. Even the closets of complete strangers — all through her group, West Metro Clothing Swaps. Her best find so far? A pair of Ugg boots. “I wore the heck out of them,” she said. http://www.startribune.com/recycle-your-way-to-a-free-new-wardrobe-at-twin-cities-clothing-swaps/395655921/...
PARK RAPIDS, MINN. – The mating dance of the hex mayflies drew John Sorenson to the Straight River at sunset. As the bugs floated like snowflakes in the fading summer light, he pulled on his waders and waited patiently for the distinct sound of trout breaking the dark water to feed. “It’s a treasure,” he said, stepping to the edge of the grassy bank and casting his line, as he has for years. http://www.startribune.com/mighty-mississippi-river-faces-mounting-environmental-threats/393294611/...
Denver city government doesn’t officially recognize Columbus Day, but this year the state capital will join several other large cities in designating the same second Monday of October as Indigenous Peoples’ Day. The move won’t make next Monday a city-observed holiday, with office closures, but several council members underlined what they saw as the symbolism behind the designation. The council approved the proposal 12-0 Monday night, prompting cheers and applause in the audience. “Our city owes our very founding to the indigenous peoples...
The #NoDAPL movement continues to dominate headlines as the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe heads back to court to protect its homelands from a controversial and costly oil pipeline. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has already halted construction of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline in a key area of North Dakota. But the order is only temporary and a hearing in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday could determine whether the contested project moves forward. Going into the hearing, the tribe enjoys an unusual advantage. The court's administrative...
There are no plans to evict a Dakota Access Pipeline protest camp on land belonging to the US Army Corps of Engineers, federal officials said. The camp in North Dakota was set up without federal permission, but a Native American tribe claims the land. The protest site – known as the Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires camp – is located near the confluence of the Missouri and Cannonball rivers, and sprang up as overflow from other campsites in the area. Native American tribes and their supporters have set up the protest camps in an effort to...
The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL), owned by the Texas company Energy Transfer Inc., is a $3.7 billion oil pipeline that runs southeastward from the Bakken region of northwestern North Dakota down to southern Illinois. The planned route through south central North Dakota traverses particularly sacred areas of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. One such area, known originally as Sacred Stone Camp and located along a tributary of the Missouri River known as the Cannonball River, has become the epicenter of a bitter standoff between interests...