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caltrek wrote: Mon Aug 23, 2021 9:41 pm The Fight Over Mask Mandates in Schools Turns Violent
by Ivana Saric
August 23, 2021

https://www.axios.com/mask-school-manda ... 57c3d.html

Introduction:
(Axios) As children head back to the classroom, a "vocal minority" in the U.S. have resorted to violence or disruptive measures to protest against mask mandates in schools.

Driving the news: While the majority of Americans support the mandates, per a recent Axios/Ipsos poll, back-to-school confrontations across the U.S. have gotten so hot that teachers and other officials have been punched, hit and screamed at.

What's happening:

In Texas, Tom Leonard, the superintendent of Eanes Independent School District, wrote in a note to parents and staff last week that the return to school has been marked by "a few sad moments."
  • One parent in the Austin-area district allegedly assaulted a teacher by ripping off her face mask, while others yelled at another teacher, claiming they couldn't understand what she was saying due to the face covering.
caltrek's comment: I guess conservatives are fighting the local public school boards on the grounds that that said governing bodies are trying to deprive their students' rights to die or become seriously ill from Covid19. Or perhaps they are just trying to strengthen the argument for vouchers so that they can withdraw their kids from the public school system and send them to private schools, where their kids can enjoy the right to die or become seriously ill from Covid19 or some later virus. Life for just us, freedumb for all, and the pursuit of happiness for those with a good bottle of booze or access to opioids.
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Hello, I agree with you that this is a mockery of children and people with these masks; how can children usually listen to the teacher if you can't hear or understand anything through the cover.
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Antitrust Suit Alleges 16 Elite Universities Colluded to Limit Financial Aid
by Julia Conley
January 10, 2022

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/ ... ancial-aid

Introduction:
(Common Dreams) Sixteen elite universities were sued in federal court late Sunday over an alleged price-fixing scheme in which plaintiffs say the schools formed a "cartel" to limit the amount of financial aid they would each offer to low- and middle-income prospective students—breaking antitrust laws.

Five students who previously attended some of the universities filed the federal lawsuit in Illinois, arguing that in defiance of legislation passed in the 1990s, at least some of the schools take families' financial needs into account when making admissions decisions. The schools in question are part of a group called the "568 Presidents Group," which was formed after Ivy League schools were charged with price-fixing in 1991 and is supposed to admit students on a "need-blind" basis.

After the schools were accused of colluding with their competitors to set a formula for determining how much financial aid was needed by families—driving up college costs for all students—Congress passed legislation allowing the schools to collaborate on financial aid methodologies, but only if they did not take into account students' financial needs when making admissions decisions.

According to the lawsuit filed Sunday, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Duke University, Georgetown University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Northwestern University, Notre Dame University, the University of Pennsylvania, and Vanderbilt University all take financial needs into account.
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America Struggles to Keep Schools Open
January 16, 2022

https://www.axios.com/schools-closed-co ... 38179.html

Introduction:
As Omicron continues to spread, schools across the U.S. are struggling with teacher shortages that have forced them to consolidate classes and lean on administrative staff to fill in as substitutes.

Why it matters: School closures and virtual classes can do lasting damage to kids' academic achievement — but so can some of the accommodations schools have had to make in order to stay open.
  • "If staff is out and you're just farming fifth-graders into a first-grade classroom, is that learning or is that babysitting?" asks John Coneglio, president of the Columbus Education Association teachers union.
  • "How long can we sustain this? We already have people leaving their jobs," said Kelly Wilson, president of Minnesota's Osseo Local #1212 teachers union.
What's happening: COVID has forced schools to shutter this month across America, often on a building-by-building basis as districts deal with mounting absences on the fly.
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Schumer blocks Senate GOP school safety bill, angering Republicans
Fox News ^ | 5/26/22 | Jessica Chasmar..

'You're a liar and a hack,' Sen. Rick Scott tweeted to Schumer after he blocked Luke and Alex School Safety Act

Democrats see Uvalde shooting as a political asset: Miranda Devine

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Wednesday blocked a school safety bill that has Republicans crying foul.

After the horrific mass shooting at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school that killed 19 children and two teachers, Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc., asked for the Luke and Alex School Safety Act to be passed by unanimous consent.

The bill, named after Parkland, Florida, shooting victims Luke Hoyer and Alex Schachter, would require the Department of Homeland Security to establish a "Federal Clearinghouse on School Safety Best Practices" for use by state and local educational and law-enforcement agencies, institutions of higher education, health professionals, and the public. And it would require DHS to "collect clearinghouse data analytics, user feedback on the implementation of best practices and recommendations identified by the clearinghouse, and any evaluations conducted on these best practices and recommendations."
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/schume ... epublicans
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After ending merit admissions, SF lowell HS failing grades triples.
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https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/ ... 196603.php

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Of the 620 students in Lowell’s freshman class, 24.4% received at least one D or F grade during the fall semester, compared with 7.9% of first-year students in fall 2020 and 7.7% in fall 2019, according to internal San Francisco Unified School District figures obtained by The Chronicle
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Gov. Mike DeWine signs bill slashing training requirements to arm teachers in schools
Source: The Plain Dealer
COLUMBUS, Ohio -- As expected, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Monday signed a bill that would allow teachers and other staff to carry guns in school after 24 hours of training, down from the 700 hours required under a recent Ohio Supreme Court ruling.

House Bill 99 is meant to make it easier for school districts to arm teachers, which supporters said will make schools a less vulnerable target to attackers. It also creates a mobile training team that will work with schools across the state to help find and fix potential weaknesses in security, among other changes, and sets annual re-training requirements for staff who want to continue to be armed in school.

The bill dates back to a June 2021 Ohio Supreme Court ruling that said school staff only could carry guns if they first underwent the same basic training as police officers, effectively setting the 700-hour training standard. The ruling, striking down a security policy from a Butler County school district, made it effectively unworkable for districts to arm staff, according to critics.

But the measure picked up steam following the massacre in May at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas in which a gunman shot and killed 19 students and two teachers. Republican lawmakers sent it to DeWine’s desk earlier this month over objections from Democrats.
Read more: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2022/06/ ... hools.html

Now this would make the attackers think twice! Gun control has failed in most major cities in this country and if someone wants to do evil shit they can easily get it in the black market.
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Georgia's second-largest school district allows non-officers to carry guns
Source: Reuters

July 15 (Reuters) - Georgia's second-largest school district has approved a policy to allow personnel who are not certified police officers to carry guns, part of its response to the shooting at a Texas school that killed 19 children and two adults two months ago.

The Cobb County school board voted 4-2 at a meeting on Thursday to adopt the policy as a way to bolster the number of staff carrying guns at a time when finding new police officers is difficult. The policy would exclude teachers from carrying guns. Employees authorized to carry guns would get the same training as certified school resource officers.

It was not clear whether the suburban Atlanta district intended to hire new security personnel who were not police officers, or if it would use existing employees for the role. During the meeting, opponents of the policy booed and shouted, “Delay the vote," demanding a more detailed discussion take place at an Aug. 18 meeting before the board made a final decision.

Superintendent Chris Ragland said final approval for any personnel would lie with the school board's police chief, Ron Storey. Representatives of the superintendent's office were not immediately available for comment, and members of the board who voted on the policy could not be reached.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/georgi ... 022-07-15/
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Trump education secretary says 'Department of Education should not exist'
Source: The Hill

Former Secretary of Education Betsy Devos believes that the department she once led should be abolished.

Devos, who spent four years as the education secretary during the Trump administration, made the remarks at the inaugural “Moms For Liberty” summit on Saturday, according to the Florida Phoenix.

“I personally think the Department of Education should not exist,” Devos told the mostly conservative crowd in Tampa, Fla.

Devos was a leading proponent of “education freedom” during her time in office, promoting vouchers to allow families to choose their children’s school.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... ar-AAZGeXd
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President Biden forgives nearly $4 billion in student debt -- what's next?
Source: MoneyWise
President Joe Biden wiped $3.9 billion from the student loan records Tuesday.

More than 200,000 former students, who still owe on a federal student loan from their time at ITT Technical Institute will see their loan balances cleared, whether they’ve applied for forgiveness or not.

ITT Educational Services closed its campuses in 2016 after years of questioning and scrutiny of its accreditation standards and recruiting processes. At the time, the institution had about 45,000 students across 130 campuses.

Some of the former students were already eligible for federal student loans forgiveness but this move applies to all borrowers who took on debt attending the school between 2005 and September 2016, when the school closed.
Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/presiden ... 00606.html
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