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☆ Chicago’s Sanctuary City Awakening
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Images: AP/Shutterstock/Reuters Composite: Mark KellyPosturing as a “sanctuary city” used to be fun when it meant resisting Donald Trump, but now the migrant crisis is everywhere. “We simply have no more shelters, spaces, or resources,” Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says in a letter Sunday to Texas Gov. “Though I am sympathetic to the significant challenges that border cities face, this situation is completely untenable.”And the scales fall. That’s nothing next to El Paso, which this week declared a state of emergency, as it braces for the end of Title 42 pandemic expulsions. The El Paso Times cites estimates of about “10,000 to 12,000 migrants in Juárez,” waiting to cross into the U.S.

☆ Randi Weingarten and Racial Disparities in Education
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Private school vouchers are shaping up to be huge part of the 2024 election as GOP candidates work to 'one up' each other on the issue
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-15 | by ( Kimberly Leonard | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +12 min

The GOP movement toward "school choice" is gaining momentum in many states. GOP presidential candidates have promised to send more public money to private schools. While battles over how classrooms should teach about race and LGBTQ topics have fired up the GOP base, the expansion of school vouchers is taking hold in red states. Spar said vouchers amounted to "using taxpayer money to go to private schools and home schools with practically no accountability." As Congress then turned its attention toward COVID pandemic relief, at least one bill that didn't pass had funding for private schools and homeschooling.

☆ Democrats choose Chicago as the site of the 2024 convention
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-11 | by ( Natasha Korecki | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The Democratic Party has chosen Chicago as the site of its 2024 convention. "Chicago is a great choice to host the 2024 Democratic National Convention," Biden said in a statement. "The last Chicago convention was a huge success. It makes sense to put the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 2024. Republicans are holding their 2024 convention in Milwaukee.

☆ How women are re-defining ambition to build happier, more successful careers: It isn’t ‘worth sacrificing my mental health for’
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Morgan Smith | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Women continue to face alarmingly high levels of burnout — the extreme circumstances of working and surviving during a pandemic, some workplace experts warn, has cost women their ambition. Overall, nearly half (48%) of women describe themselves as "very ambitious" when it comes to their career, and ambition among women of color is even higher, according to a Momentive/CNBC poll of over 5,000 women conducted last month. Women aren't losing their ambition — they're rejecting a narrow definition of ambition as the pursuit of money and power and writing a new one. But after spending the first 10 months of the pandemic working 85-hour weeks at a pharmacy in Los Angeles, Ismail realized her dream career wasn't sustainable. "I realized the career markers I used to strive so hard to achieve aren't worth sacrificing my mental health for."

☆ Trump wades into education culture war as he eyes race with DeSantis
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-14 | by ( James Oliphant | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Trump hasn't been waging the same kind of cultural warfare over education that DeSantis and other Republicans have since the coronavirus pandemic. DeSantis was in Iowa on Friday, speaking at a pair of political events that appeared to be laying groundwork for a presidential bid. His education agenda in Florida was a recurring theme in his remarks, and DeSantis credited it as a reason that he convincingly won re-election last year. DeSantis has asked the Florida legislature to expand a ban on teaching gender-identity concepts to eighth grade from third grade currently. Some of Trump’s education ideas include rewarding teachers who teach “patriotic values” and requiring direct election of school principals by parents, although how he would bring that about is unclear.

☆ Trump looks to play catch-up to DeSantis on education in 2024 race
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-13 | by ( James Oliphant | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

The coronavirus pandemic gave rise to a host of hot-button issues surrounding education that have mobilized the Republican base in the years since Trump left the White House. DeSantis was in Iowa on Friday, speaking at a pair of political events that appear to be laying groundwork for a presidential bid. DeSantis has asked the Florida legislature to expand a ban on teaching gender-identity concepts to eighth grade from third grade currently. That could leave an opening for Trump, who made school choice a priority in his administration but lacks the track record on state-level education issues that DeSantis and other governors have. Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project, another conservative parents' rights group, said DeSantis getting out ahead of Trump on the issue should not hurt the former president.

☆ Some schools are switching to the 4-day workweek to bring in and keep teachers, but education officials say it's not a 'magic pill' to fix the educator shortage
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Korie Wilkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

"Right now, the climate across the country with educators is that they are exhausted and they are tired," Gabe Dannenbring, a middle-school-science teacher and popular TikToker, told Insider. His studies include deep dives on how the four-day schedule impacts student success, and he is considering future studies on how this schedule change can help curb educator burnout. As of 2020, about 550 districts nationwide have adopted a four-day schedule, according to the National Conference of State Legislature. Heather Luke Drozlek teaches in a small private school in Indiana, which is on a four-day school week. "I can see the benefits, but I can also see that it could cause systemic issues," Tell Williams, a preschool teacher and social-media influencer, told Insider.

☆ How Evercore is wooing its junior bankers to stay ‘long-term’ with early promotions and $70,000 in bonuses just for sticking around
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-24 | by ( Emmalyse Brownstein | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Evercore — a small but powerful Wall Street investment bank— has rolled out a new promotion program for its junior staffers, Insider has learned. Evercore's analyst program previously required two years as an analyst and one year as a senior analyst. It's unclear how long junior bankers are expected to stay with the firm after being promoted to associate. If accepted, the participants would spend July through December as senior analysts, then become associates as of January 1, 2024. "We will continue to assess current Senior Analysts eligibility for promotion to Associate 1 this July."

They have soared in popularity over the last year, in part from social media attention and billionaires like Elon Musk touting the drugs’ weight loss effects. Ozempic is not approved for weight loss, but doctors sometimes prescribe it off-label for that purpose. Harper took Ozempic off-label for weight loss from May until November (she paused while moving to Washington state but plans to start again). For Yazeed, weight loss was not the reason she went on Ozempic, nor was it a goal. He hasn't experienced side effects or weight loss from Ozempic, he said, but he recognizes that isn't true for everyone.

☆ Meet the team behind CNN’s ‘New Year’s Eve Live’
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Tricia Escobedo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

ET as Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen co-host CNN’s “New Year’s Eve Live” from New York City’s Times Square. CNN —Every New Year’s Eve, Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen host four-and-a-half hours of live television, joined by celebrity guests and performers, as they count down to the new year. “New Year’s Eve Live” is created by “a patchwork team of CNN employees from different show teams, bureaus and units from around the globe,” Hall explained. Here’s what Doft and Hall told us about the live special and what we can look forward to Saturday night:This is the 20th year that Anderson Cooper has hosted ‘New Year’s Eve Live’ on CNN. In fact, it’s why he chooses to anchor “New Year’s Eve Live” — to make sure the audience has a place to go and to fill people with hope, laughter and love.

☆ Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, high-functioning depression and why ‘checking in’ isn’t enough
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Randi-Richardson-Byline-Jm.Jpg | Randi Richardson | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +12 min

High-functioning depression is a colloquial term and not a technical clinical diagnosis, explains Rheeda Walker, Ph.D., psychologist and leading researcher on suicide in the Black community. Persistent depressive disorder is another official diagnosis that, for some patients, may include high-functioning depression, Walker says. But she also stresses that because high-functioning depression is not a technical diagnosis, she’s hesitant to say they’re the same. But a 2021 study indicates the Black suicide rate is likely higher than documented because the manner of death is often misclassified. If you’re concerned about a loved one attempting suicide, Walker notes that anxiety is “as strong a predictor” as depression.

☆ Reselling brand gifts can be easy money influencers, but it comes with big risks
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

But other influencers, when they find themselves flooded with gifted products, turn to reselling them online. One particular brand Campbell worked with in the past would even vet influencers by checking if they were reselling gifted products on third-party websites before partnering with them. Brands and audiences may lose trust in influencers who resellFor many brands, seeing an influencer reselling a gifted product is a definite red flag. Influencers who consider reselling gifted products should also be careful about their taxes, said Qianna Smith Bruneteau, founder of the American Influencer Council. Reselling is most common in niches like fashionThe practice of reselling gifted products on second-hand websites like Depop or Poshmark is most common in the fashion space, industry insiders say.

☆ Brand gifting to influencers has gotten 'excessive and gluttonous.' But reselling products is a big risk for creators.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-11 | by ( Marta Biino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

☆ Who’s Afraid of Randi Weingarten?
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-07 | by ( Jason L. Riley | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

He is also a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and provides television commentary for various news outlets. Mr. Riley joined the paper in 1994 as a copy reader on the national news desk in New York. He moved to the editorial page in 1995, was named a senior editorial page writer in 2000, and became a member of the Editorial Board in 2005. He joined the Manhattan Institute in 2015. Born in Buffalo, New York, Mr. Riley earned a bachelor's degree in English from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

☆ LeBron James says there’s a double standard in reporters asking about Kyrie Irving but not Jerry Jones' photo
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Https | Media-Cldnry.S-Nbcnews.Com Image Upload Newscms Randi-Richardson-Byline-Jm.Jpg | Randi Richardson | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

NBA legend LeBron James has called out reporters for what he described as a double standard in the way they cover Black athletes. “I was wondering why I haven’t gotten a question from you guys about the Jerry Jones photo,” James said to the room of reporters. He also questioned why the Jones photo didn’t receive the same attention and scrutiny from reporters that Irving’s actions did. “It seems like to me the whole Jerry Jones situation, photo — and I know it was years ago and we all make mistakes, I get it. But it seems like it’s just been buried under like ‘Oh, it happened,’ OK. We just move on.

☆ Why Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan is legal and should be reinstated by the Supreme Court, according to 44 economists, legal experts, and advocates
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Biden's administration recently asked the Supreme Court to revive its student-debt relief plan. Biden's Justice Department quickly appealed the 8th Circuit's decision and took the issue to the Supreme Court, asking it on November 18 to revive the student-loan forgiveness plan. It's unclear when, or what, the highest court will ultimately decide, but 44 advocates, economists, legal experts, and scholars joined the Biden administration's fight by filing amicus curiae briefs before Thanksgiving supporting the revival of debt relief. As you know, it's up to the Supreme Court, and we're going to continue to fight. Here are the main arguments the experts and advocates used as to why the Supreme Court should reinstate Biden's student-debt cancellation plan.

Will Smith knows that fans may be hesitant to see his first movie since slapping Chris Rock at the Oscars. That’s what I’m hoping for. The aftermath of the incident has included several Smith apologies and even more reactions on social media. Smith released his first public apology to Rock the day after the slap amid mounting backlash. “Anyone who says words hurt has never been punched in the face,” Rock said, later adding, “I’m not a victim.

☆ Notable & Quotable: Pompeo on Randi Weingarten
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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And Black women are often in their late 30s or early 40s when they start, older on average than white women. Black women are also twice as likely as white women to have fertility challenges, according to a 2008 study in Fertility and Sterility. He suggested that insurance coverage, awareness of the “biological clock” and partners’ attitudes toward fertility treatment may all play a role. Regina Townsend via Broken Brown Egg‘The myth assigned to us’National data identifying racial disparities in fertility care only recently became available when Seifer published his 2007 study. Doctors’ lack of knowledge about racial disparities in fertility treatment doesn’t surprise Townsend.

☆ The White House is reportedly considering extending the student-loan payment pause again as Biden's debt relief sits in federal courts
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The White House is considering extending the student-loan payment pause again, per The Washington Post. This comes as Biden's debt relief is on pause after federal courts blocked its implementation. Given that these legal proceedings could take months, extending into the new year, calls to extend the student-loan payment pause beyond December 31 have been amplifying. The Washington Post reported on Monday that White House officials are considering another extension, according to two people familiar with the matter who stressed that no final decisions have been made. Advocates have also been calling on Biden to extend the student-loan payment pause.

☆ Student-loan borrowers should not resume payments in January after federal courts have blocked the relief, advocates say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-14 | by ( Ayelet Sheffey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Two federal courts have blocked Biden's student-loan forgiveness plan so far. Advocates say student-loan payments should not resume in January without relief. These legal challenges could delay the implementation of Biden's debt relief for months — potentially extending into next year, when student-loan payments are scheduled to resume. Alongside the August announcement of broad student-loan forgiveness, the department announced the "final" extension of the student-loan payment pause through December 31. Still, given that the department told borrowers the goal was to have their relief processed before payments resume, advocates are hoping borrowers won't be thrown into repayment too soon.

☆ 'Black Panther' director Ryan Coogler emotionally recalls his last conversation with Chadwick Boseman
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Randi Richardson | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

“Black Panther” director Ryan Coogler recently described his last conversation with Chadwick Boseman “a couple weeks” before the actor’s death in 2020. “I could tell he was tired.”Director Ryan Coogler and Chadwick Boseman on the set of "Black Panther" in 2018. Coogler and Boseman on the set of "Black Panther" in 2018. ©Walt Disney Co. / Courtesy Everett CollectionTwo days after Boseman died, Coogler wrote a heartfelt note about Boseman and sent it to media outlets. Angela Bassett played Boseman’s mother, Ramonda (affectionally called Queen Mother), in “Black Panther” and is reprising her role in the sequel.

☆ Randi Zuckerberg's company is buying an NFT community as part of her plan to build the 'IAC of Web3.' Here's why she thinks more startups will combine to survive the crypto winter.
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-03 | by ( April Joyner | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Randi Zuckerberg's company Assemble is buying the NFT community Meta Angels for an undisclosed sum. Meta Angels will run alongside Hug, Zuckerberg's Web3 community to welcome newcomers to NFTs. Zuckerberg, Cavoulacos, and Downey all sought to help change that. Zuckerberg — the sister of Mark Zuckerberg, Meta's CEO, and the former director of market development at Facebook — cofounded the Web3 community Hug. Assemble — the parent company of Hug and other technology projects still in stealth — is acquiring Meta Angels, Zuckerberg and Cavoulacos told Insider.

☆ Now They Want a Pandemic ‘Amnesty’
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-02 | by ( The Editorial Board | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Believe it or not, American Federation of Teachers chief Randi Weingarten on Monday tacitly acknowledged that keeping schools closed during the pandemic was a mistake. Miracles happen, apparently. But she also now wants parents—especially if they’re voters next week—to forgive her and her political allies without seeking an apology or holding them accountable. Sorry, that lets them off way too easy. “I agree,” Ms. Weingarten tweeted a link to a piece in The Atlantic by Emily Oster , “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty.” The article argues that Americans should forgive experts and government leaders for their mistakes during the pandemic.

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