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"This is not one of those situations where it's just smoke. There is in fact fire," said Alabama's new state superintendent of education, Michael Sentance. The fire: Sentance revealed earlier this month that high schools there have "misstated student records ... resulting in diplomas that were not honestly earned." At a recent meeting of the state school board, he also admitted that Alabama's education department had not provided enough oversight. "This is a black eye for the department," Sentance said, "and it makes the education system here...
San Juan Unified is preparing an antidote to traditional education for the bored, disengaged student – an “UnSchool” opening in fall 2017. There will be no school bells, no traditional classrooms and, backers say, no tedium. The alternative school, which students will rename later, will exist at the site of the former Fair Oaks Elementary School. There, students will direct their own learning based on their interests. Some online courses and college classes may broaden learning. Add to that beaucoup technology and community-based proje...
Cindy Mi leans forward on a couch in her sun-filled Beijing office to explain how she first got interested in education. She loved English so much as a child that she spent her lunch money on books and magazines to practice. By 15, she was good enough that she began to tutor other students. At 17, she dropped out of high school to start a language-instruction company with her uncle. Today, Mi is 33 and founder of a startup that aims to give Chinese kids the kind of education American children receive in top U.S. schools. Called VIPKid, the...
eVonte Kirkland is in his second to last year of school at Center Point High in Jefferson County, just outside of Birmingham, Ala. When he graduates next year he wants to head to Alabama State University. DeVonte also wants a car, so he's taking some serious time to learn how to work on them. Every day, he rides a school bus 25 minutes, each direction, for an auto tech class at Gardendale High, another school on the south side of the district. Unlike the Jefferson County schools on whole, the student body inside Gardendale's schools is mostly...
The host committee for the 2016 Democratic National Convention is not quite finished with Philadelphia yet. It is expected to announce Monday that it will donate $750,000 to locate libraries in public-school classrooms across the city. The donation to the Right Books Campaign - an effort of the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia - comes as the Philadelphia 2016 Host Committee closes up shop. "We wanted to have a significant impact through the convention on the Philadelphia community," said former Gov. Ed Rendell, the committee's...
Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges’ sudden support for raising the city’s minimum wage has thrust the issue into the center of the 2017 mayor’s race, with her reversal drawing sharp criticism for those vying to replace her. Hodges issued a statement late Monday saying she backs an unspecified municipal wage and opposes any exception for tipped employees. She had previously said she preferred a regional minimum wage. But with mayoral candidate Nekima Levy-Pounds demanding a $15 wage and Council Member Jacob Frey mulling a run for mayor, Hodge...
TULTEPEC, Mexico — The San Pablito fireworks market was especially well stocked for the holidays and bustling with hundreds of shoppers when a powerful chain-reaction explosion ripped through its stalls, killing at least 29 people and leaving dozens more badly burned. The third such blast to ravage the market on the northern outskirts of Mexico's capital since 2005 sent up a towering plume of smoke that was lit up by a staccato of bangs and flashes of light. Once the smoke cleared, the open-air bazaar was reduced to a stark expanse of ash, r...
WASHINGTON – Donald Trump’s presidential transition team has asked State Department officials to disclose how much money the department provides each year to international environmental groups. It’s the latest example of the incoming administration’s reassessment of the U.S. government’s approach to climate change and other environmental priorities. In a list of questions posed last week to the department’s Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs, according to multiple people with knowledge of the matter, the...
Hundreds of Minnesota children who have suffered the trauma of being removed from their birth parents, and are now living in foster care, could soon receive state-funded intensive psychotherapy services to give them safer, more stable lives. Minnesota officials hope the mental health services, rolled out at a time of soaring foster care caseloads, will cut the persistently high number of children who cycle in and out of foster care placements without finding safe and permanent homes. Until now, many of these children have gone years without...
Hormel Foods Corp. will hire three dozen women and pay more than a half-million dollars in wages to hundreds of female job applicants denied entry-level jobs at a hog plant in Nebraska. The actions are the result of a settlement made with the U.S. Department of Labor that found Hormel may have discriminated against women in its hiring process at the hog-processing plant in Fremont, Neb. Hormel is a large government contractor. “When contractors accept federal funds, they agree to comply with federal anti-discrimination laws,” said Thomas M....
FLINT, Mich. — A criminal investigation of Flint's lead-contaminated water turned to former key officials at City Hall on Tuesday as Michigan's attorney general announced charges against four people accused of keeping residents on a contaminated system that caused the crisis. Darnell Earley and Gerald Ambrose separately were state-appointed emergency managers in Flint in 2014-15 when the city was using the Flint River as a source of drinking water. Ambrose also served earlier as a financial adviser to the troubled town. They were charged w...
A federal judge is clearing his plate in order to focus on the next phase of the #NoDAPL lawsuit. A hearing isn't expected for another two months but it's going to be a big one. Judge James E. Boasberg will consider whether the wealthy backers of the Dakota Access Pipeline can finish the controversial project even though they lack a crucial easement in North Dakota. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe are vowing to fight the request and so is the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Their submissions are due on January 6,...
“If you do not like what you’re seeing, please share it,” Kevin Gilbert says, narrating a video he filmed with his phone and broadcast live on Facebook. It turns out that many people didn’t like what they saw the night of November 20, when activists trying to remove a barricade near the Dakota Access Pipeline's contested site on Highway 1806 were met with water cannons wielded by law enforcement officers. Gilbert's footage alone was shared hundreds of thousands of times -- by protesters, by news media, by the webpage of U. S. Senator Bernie...
Yukon's Champagne and Aishihik First Nations government is aiming to clarify its process and criteria for band membership with its new Enrolment Act. "Over the last 20 years we've adopted numerous acts regarding fish and wildlife, traditional activities protections... but we've never really looked at what it means to be a Champagne Aishihik First Nation person and citizen," said Steve Smith, Chief of the First Nations. "The Enrolment Act overall is, I think, one of the first real pieces of legislation that starts to really entrench...
CHARLESTOWN, R.I. (WPRI) – Narragansett Indians who were elected to the tribal council months ago say they took control of the tribe’s administration building this morning, and while a crowd swelled nearby, a tribal leader said it was “a peaceful transition.” Bella Noka, the tribal election committee chairperson, said in a perfect world the transition would’ve happened after the new council was elected in July. But Matthew Thomas, who was impeached as chief by the council in October, called its members “imposters” and according to an active...
CHARLESTOWN, R.I. (AP) — New leaders have assumed power among the Narragansett Indian tribe in Rhode Island. WPRI-TV reports tribal members elected in July have taken control of the federally-recognized tribe’s administration building in Charlestown Tuesday. Bella Noka, the tribal election committee chairperson, told the station that members hired retired police officers for security as the locks were changed on the building. http://www.630wpro.com/2016/12/20/new-naragansett-tribal-leaders-assume-power-in-rhode-island/...
A former North Fork Rancheria Mono Tribal Council member is dead after allegedly being killed by her neighbor in North Fork. According to the Madera County Sheriff’s Office, Bonnie Hale, 76, was found unresponsive by her son, Bobby Hale Jr., the morning of Dec. 17 on the porch of her Road 225 home. The home is located about a half-mile south of the old North Fork mill site. Investigators said Hale had injuries indicating she had been in a fight. http://www.sierrastar.com/news/local/article122040209.html...
Another Pine Ridge woman has been charged with making false statements to law enforcement in the September shooting death of Annie Colhoff. Authorities say Colhoff, 34, also known as Chunta Suta Wi, was shot and killed Sept. 29 in Pine Ridge village. Stevie Ray Makes Good, 24, was indicted by a federal grand jury Nov. 16. U.S. Attorney Randolph Seiler said Makes Good is charged with misprision of a felony, after allegedly lying to law enforcement that she was not at the scene of Colhoff's shooting. http://rapidcityjournal.co...
ABERDEEN — Trials have been scheduled for a man and woman accused of killing the woman's 5-year-old daughter on the South Dakota side of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Desarae Makes Him First and Matthew St. Pierre are charged with first-degree murder, assault and child abuse in the October killing. Court documents show that St. Pierre is scheduled for trial in Aberdeen beginning Feb. 6. Makes Him First is to stand trial beginning April 17. Both suspects face life in prison if convicted....
ANACORTES — Swinomish Indian Tribal Community Chairman Brian Cladoosby told the Anacortes City Council on Monday night that local residents need not fear tribal action as portrayed in a recent letter written by Skagit County commissioners. The county released a letter in early December that said should the federal Bureau of Indian Affairs approve amendments to the Swinomish constitution, it could give the tribe regulatory power over the Anacortes refineries on March Point, erode the refineries’ ability to operate under consistent reg...
Washington, D.C. — “President-elect Trump's nomination of Rep. Ryan Zinke as Secretary of the Interior adds to the troubling imbalance of a Cabinet that is skewed toward fossil fuel interests. My colleagues and I are concerned about several aspects of Rep. Zinke's record, particularly his support for aggressive oil, gas and coal extraction on federal lands and his opposition to a sensible rule to reduce natural gas waste. “America’s next Interior Secretary will be entrusted with our public lands and natural resources, which provide critica...
BRADLEY COUNTY, TN (WRCB) - The FBI is now investigating whether an assault, in which a Native American man was brutally beaten, was a hate crime. Three people were arrested for the crime, involving the victim, 60-year-old, James Russell in Bradley County. It happened at a house on Red Clay Road in November. The Bradley County Sheriff's Office calls the attack a case of mistaken identity that led to aggravated assault but the FBI will look into whether the racial slurs said during the attack, could result in it being classified a hate crime....
A Calgary-area mother accused of murdering her toddler will spend Christmas behind bars after allegedly breaching her bail conditions. Livia Starlight, from the Tsuut'ina First Nation southwest of Calgary, faces a charge of second-degree murder. Her son Traezlin Denzel Starlight, 2, died in a Calgary hospital on Sept. 25, 2014, after being admitted to hospital a week earlier with injuries. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/livia-starlight-tsuutina-murder-toddler-breach-bail-1.3905183...
MISSOULA, Mont. - The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are declaring an emergency to counter the spread of invasive mussel larvae into the Flathead Indian Reservation. Gov. Steve Bullock already declared a natural resource emergency last month after quagga mussels were found in the Canyon Ferry and Tiber reservoirs earlier this year. The invasive zebra and quagga mussels have devastating impacts on local economies and ecosystems. http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/keci/cskt-declares-emergency-over-invasive-mussel-larvae/2...
The Thunder Bay Police Services Board voted unanimously on Tuesday to lobby city council and the Ontario government to appoint an Indigenous person to the board. The police service is currently undergoing a systemic review by the province's civilian police watchdog after allegations of racism against Indigenous people. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/police-board-indigenous-member-1.3905184...
