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BALTIMORE — It has been four years since Baltimore County’s first elementary schoolchildren excitedly put their hands on their own laptops, beginning a $147 million rollout aimed at giving students from first to 12th grade access to technology and transforming the way lessons are taught. But the ambitious program has yet to show the results many had hoped for. Despite the saturation of technology, Baltimore County ranks near the bottom of the state in passing rates on standardized tests. The scores are generally flat for students in grades thr...
St. Paul, MN: The Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) is now accepting grant applications for projects designed to improve access to affordable, nutritious, and culturally appropriate foods, including fresh fruits and vegetables, for underserved communities in low- and moderate-income areas. The funding is available through the Good Food Access Program (GFAP). These grants will help organizations such as business and economic development organizations, regional public health organizations, foundations, and community development financial...
The Native American Journalists Association is pleased to announce our continued partnership with Comcast NBCUniversal for the 2019 NBC News Summer Fellows Program! The NAJA-NBC News Summer Fellowship gives students real world experience and exposure to one of the world’s leading News divisions, which includes NBC News, MSNBC and CNBC. NBCUniversal will offer fellows the opportunity to join one of the following NBC programs for summer 2019 as interns: • America’s #1 morning news program, The Today Show • The top ranked evening program, Nightly...
Minneapolis, Minnesota (December 19, 2018) – People Serving People, Minnesota’s most comprehensive emergency shelter for families and a dedicated leader in homelessness prevention, announced today its Holiday Helper volunteer program. Annually, more than 6,500 volunteers donate their skills and time to People Serving People’s programs, which served more than 3,000 individuals from 1,104 families in 2017. “Holiday Helper volunteer opportunities are a great way for corporate groups and individuals alike to give back during the holiday season,” sa...
Washington, D.C., Dec. 19 –As Congress advances our national dialogue on criminal justice reform, it is critical to remember that criminal justice issues are issues that dramatically impact people with disabilities. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 32 percent of federal prisoners and 40 percent of people in jail have at least one disability. RespectAbility, a nonprofit disability organization, estimates that more than 750,000 people with disabilities are behind bars in America today. This includes 140,000 who are blind or have v...
A total of 101 fatal work-injuries were recorded in Minnesota in 2017, an increase from the 92 fatal work-injuries in 2016 and 74 fatal work-injuries in 2015. This is the highest total number of fatal work-related injuries since 1993, and the third-highest total since the annual Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI) was implemented in 1992. This is the third year in a row that the number of fatal work-injuries in Minnesota has increased. Minnesota’s 2017 fatal-injury rate is 3.5 fatalities per 100,000 full-time-equivalent workers; the 2...
New York, NY— December 19, 2018 — Ucross, a prestigious artists’ residency program and creative lab for the arts located in Wyoming’s majestic High Plains, today announced that Heidi K. Brandow, a multi-disciplinary artist with an active painting, printmaking, and social-engagement practice, has been awarded the third Ucross Fellowship for Native American Visual Artists. The award includes a one-month residency at Ucross, a stipend of $2,000, and inclusion in a forthcoming exhibition at the Ucross Foundation Art Gallery. Brandow hails from a...
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT HEAD COOK RED LAKE REGIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMPLEX Open: December 19, 2018 Closing: January 18, 2019 @ 3:00 p.m. PRIMARY FUNCTION: To provide nutritious meals for inmates by ensuring a safe, clean and sanitary environment, this position does have supervisory responsibility; reports to Administrator, full-time position with benefits, salary; DOQ. ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES: • Responsible for supervising the development of specifications for procurement of f...
Red Lake Nation Boys & Girls Club Christmas Family Night - Thursday, December 20, 2018 4:30 PM - 7 PM - Red Lake Boys & Girls Club Activities such as food crafts, DJ Booth, Games, Christmas Movie and Arts and Crafts. Door prizes and dinner......
Métis author Maria Campbell's classic memoir Halfbreed will be re-released next year with two recently discovered missing pages detailing her account of being sexually assaulted by an RCMP officer when she was 14. The pages had originally been scrubbed from the 1973 book against Campbell's wishes,, because her publishers at the time feared RCMP would try to halt its publication. https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/maria-campbell-s-halfbreed-to-be-re-released-with-author-s-account-of-rape-by-mountie-1.4952406...
The lawyer representing a new Manitoba junior hockey league argued in court Wednesday that five Manitoba First Nations suing the Capital Region Junior Hockey League have failed to prove that it poached players, or left the First Nations' teams in jeopardy. Bill Bowles, who is representing the organizers of the Capital Region Junior Hockey League, told Justice Herbert Rempel that the teams were entitled to leave their old league — the Keystone Junior Hockey League — and that the new league's players are at risk of losing their hockey season ove...
"A lot of kids don't get toys. You know, we live in a remote area, and some of the families don't get that kind of money to buy stuff for their children, so we help out," says Darrell Seki, Sr., the chairman of Red Lake Nation. Red Lake Nation is making sure kids on the reservation and kids in the Duluth area have a merry Christmas with their annual toy drive. The toy drive was started back in 2011 after Toys For Tots stopped serving their area. This year, 2,441 kids will be getting toys. The...
