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☆ Uvalde Shooting Survivors File $27 Billion Lawsuit Against First Responders
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-01 | by ( Alyssa Lukpat | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Dozens of Uvalde shooting survivors sued responding officers and others in a Texas federal court, seeking $27 billion in damages, for taking more than an hour to stop the gunman. Students, parents, teachers and school staff said in the lawsuit filed this week that they were traumatized by the first responders’ failure to intervene in the May shooting. Nineteen fourth-graders and two teachers died, making it the deadliest U.S. school shooting since the one in 2012 at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.

Dec 1 (Reuters) - Victims of the Uvalde mass shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers at a Texas elementary school in May have filed a $27 billion class-action lawsuit against an array of public entities and officials, seeking damages for ongoing trauma. It was the deadliest U.S. school shooting in almost a decade, and many children were wounded. A spokesperson for the city of Uvalde said on Thursday the city had not been served with the lawsuit and would not comment on pending litigation. Representatives for the Uvalde Police Department, the Uvalde Consolidated Independent School District, the Department of Public Safety and the former chief of the school district's police force did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Separately, the city of Uvalde on Thursday sued District Attorney Christina Mitchell for not handing over investigative materials related to the shooting.

☆ This Is Your Brain on ‘Deep Reading.’ It’s Pretty Magnificent. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-22 | by ( The Ezra Klein Show | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +57 min

But if over time, we have begun to elaborate this brain so that it includes deep reading, the unnatural apex of the achievement of reading is what deep reading provides. And every time I get off of a plane, I say to myself, I’m going to do that more. I’m going to sit and I’m going to have quiet time with a book. I’m going to bring this to me in a second, so I’m not just putting this on little kids. maryanne wolfThe first thing I do is understand the purpose of whatever I’m reading.

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☆ How Sick Is Too Sick for School? RSV, Flu and Colds Strain Parents and School Nurses
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-21 | by ( Alex Janin | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Tensions are rising between parents and school nurses over children showing up to school with coughs, colds and symptoms of viral infections. Levels of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, influenza, and other respiratory viruses are surging early this year. The flood is straining school nurses and creating tough decisions for parents, who worry about children missing instruction and balancing job demands with child care. School nurses are pushing back, sending sick children home and reminding families about illness guidelines.

☆ Permanent Daylight Saving Time will hurt our health, experts say
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-06 | by ( Sandee Lamotte | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

We’ll move them forward (again) next spring when governments put daylight saving back in place. Not according to the United States Senate, which in March passed the Sunshine Protection Act of 2021 – if it becomes law, Daylight Saving Time will be permanent. Our bodies need the early morning light to set our internal body clock, experts say. When President Richard Nixon signed a permanent Daylight Saving Time into law in January 1974, it was a popular move. “The United States has tried permanent daylight saving time twice before and ended it early.

☆ Theories on Race, Gender and Sexuality Are Pivotal Issues in U.S. School Board Elections
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( Scott Calvert | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

URBANA, Md.—Three conservative school board candidates have been knocking on doors and going to parades in Frederick County, Md., in the run-up to the midterms, campaigning with a message that they will curb what they say is the injection of misguided ideas about gender, sexuality and race in classroom instruction in the politically purple region. The group, calling itself Education Not Indoctrination and backed by a political-action committee pumping money into similar efforts around the U.S., will square off in Tuesday’s election against a four-candidate slate supported by teachers unions, in a contest that both sides say carries high stakes for the school district’s more than 45,000 students.

☆ Nurses in Britain to strike, nursing college says
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-05 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

LONDON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Nurses in Britain will go on strike, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said on Saturday, an action that will add to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's challenges during an economic crisis. School workers are also going to vote on strike action. "Our strike action will be as much for patients as it is for nurses – we have their support in doing this," RCN general secretary and chief executive Pat Cullen said in a statement on Saturday. The nurses would strike before Christmas, the Observer newspaper reported. The walkout would be the first national strike in the history of the RCN, said the newspaper, which cited union officials.

☆ D.C. school bus driver charged with DUI after allegedly crashing into a ditch, injuring 9 students
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A school bus driver in D.C. was charged with driving while intoxicated after police said he crashed into a ditch, injuring nine children returning from a field trip. The bus — carrying 44 children and four adults — hit a rock, causing the rim to bend and the tire to flatten. "Reynolds continued driving until the adults on the bus convinced him to follow a second bus, which was also returning to the school from the field trip," police said. The agency's Motor Carrier Safety also found 18 safety violations between Reynolds and the other bus driver transporting children on the trip. "MCS determined that none of the bus drivers were properly licensed to operate a school bus," authorities said.

☆ St. Louis school shooter may have used gun that police confiscated months ago
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( Dan Whitcomb | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

"It could have possibly been this gun," Sack said, referring to the AR-15 style rifle used in Monday's shooting at Central Visual and Performing Arts High School. Sack deflected questions about how Harris entered the school, which was locked at the time, saying only that he had used a "forced entry." After the St. Louis shooting, the suspect's mother told investigators that the family was aware of his mental health issues and had "done everything they possibly could" to get him help, Sack said. That process can be more difficult when a gun is transferred between individuals instead of sold by a licensed dealer. Investigators believe Harris targeted individuals at the school, Sack said, but declined to say if the gunman targeted the 61-year-old teacher or 16-year-old girl who were slain in the attack.

☆ U.S. awards $1 billion to electrify school bus fleets
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-26 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Oct 26 (Reuters) - The Biden administration on Wednesday unveiled nearly $1 billion in awards to U.S. school districts to replace aging, gas-fueled school buses with cleaner, mainly electric models. The funding is the first tranche of $5 billion that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hand out over five years through a clean school bus program created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law in 2021. The EPA's clean school bus program is part of a broader push by the administration to upgrade public school infrastructure and reduce pollution from old buses. Transitioning to an electric school bus fleet nationwide would cut greenhouse gas emissions by 5.3 million tons per year, according to a study by the non-profit Public Interest Research Group. Last month, EPA said it would nearly double its planned $500 million in clean bus awards for this year due to overwhelming demand from school districts.

FILE PHOTO: A health worker wears a protective suit near a testing booth as outbreaks of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continue in Beijing, China, Oct. 23, 2022. An index measuring road freight transport turnover tumbled 26.2% on Oct. 21 from a year prior versus a 23.7% drop a week earlier, according to Nomura. New local infections fell 24% to 6,096 during Oct. 18-24 from a week earlier. Zhengzhou’s metro traffic slumped 79% from Oct. 11 to Oct. 15, according to the latest available data. Metro traffic in Guangzhou dropped 8.8% during Oct. 18-24 from the previous week, Reuters calculations based on data released by local metro operators showed.

☆ Yeshiva University launches 'traditional' alternative to LGBTQ student group
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-25 | by ( Matt Lavietes | Matt Lavietes Is A Reporter For Nbc Out. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +3 min

Yeshiva University announced Monday that it would allow the formation of a new LGBTQ student group, the latest twist in a yearslong dispute between the Orthodox Jewish university and its lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer students. The university said the new queer club, Kol Yisrael Areivim, will be an "approved traditional Orthodox alternative" to its current LGBTQ student group, the YU Pride Alliance. School officials have been in a legal battle with the student-run group for over a year after the university refused to formally recognize it. The Pride Alliance slammed the new club as a "sham." Shortly afterward, school officials suspended all student club activity.

☆ St. Louis high school shooting leaves three dead, including suspect
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Entering the building, officers soon exchanged gunfire with the suspect, who appeared to be about 20 years old, fatally wounding him, Sack said. An adult female and a teenage female were killed in the shooting, Sack said. The doors had been locked at Central Visual, a magnet school attended by about 380 students, before the shooting, Sack said. Security staff identified how the suspect entered the building but he declined further comment on how the gunman got inside. The suspect in that case entered the school building through an unlocked door.

The Florida Democratic Party noted it has had a Municipal Victory Program since 2016 that includes efforts to fundraise and help school board candidates. Historically, it hasn’t taken a lot of cash to influence school board races, which are generally nonpartisan and often draw low voter turnout. In a 2018 survey, just 9 percent of school board officials reported spending more than $5,000. “What Ron DeSantis is doing in Florida — supporting a bunch of these school board candidates — is really smart, because the No. Some of the liberal efforts to push back against conservatives in school board races are well established.

☆ Fact Check-No evidence of schools accommodating ‘furries’ with litter boxes
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-18 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

A claim that schools are placing litter boxes in student restrooms for those who identify as “furries” is circulating on social media again. The latest claim appears to originate in an October episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast where host Joe Rogan told former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard a story about litter boxes at an unidentified school. In July, Reuters Fact Check explored and debunked claims surrounding “furries” in detail (here) and previously fact checked claims related to litter boxes in student restrooms (here), (here). Fact checking organizations including the Associated Press, PolitiFact and USA Today have also debunked claims about litter boxes in schools across the U.S. (here), (here) and (here). There is no evidence that U.S. schools are accommodating litter boxes to students self-identifying as “furries.”This article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

☆ 19-year-old N.Y.C. school staffer in critical condition after being shot in the head
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( Chantal Da Silva | Chantal Da Silva Is A Breaking News Editor For Nbc News Digital Based In London. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A 19-year-old New York City school worker is in critical condition after he was shot in the head Tuesday afternoon while leaving the elementary school he was working at. As of early Wednesday morning, the NYPD said the victim remained in critical condition. The victim's union told NBC New York that he worked as a school paraprofessional for the Department of Education. He also said he would be working with the NYPD to increase security around the school. "This is a tragedy," New York City Mayor Eric Adams said in a tweet, responding to the deadly incident.

☆ Sikh family kidnapped, killed in California, emigrated from India looking for safety and the American Dream, relative says
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-11 | by ( Sakshi Venkatraman | Sakshi Venkatraman Is A Reporter For Nbc Asian America. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +5 min

She was calling for her dad, Jasdeep Singh, 36, and it would turn out to be the sole time she would ever get to do so. The days that followed the news of the deaths have been a calvary for those left behind, Amarinder Singh said. Amandeep left a widow and two young children, Jasdeep left his parents. The two babbled back and forth together as Singh, Jasdeep and Jasleen looked on fondly, he said. But after the chaos, Singh’s family is left with a hole, he said, and he feels their loss everywhere.

☆ Fact Check-Photographs do not show a U.S. student who wanted to ‘identify as a cat’
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Reuters Fact Check | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Social media users sharing photographs of a young woman dressed in a cat costume are claiming that it shows a young student in the United States whose family petitioned a school board for her to identify as a cat. The text in the post reads: “This is a young lady who is exceptional bright, her family petitioned the school board for right to "identify as a cat! Obvious, she is crying out for attention.”But the photographs do not show a student in the United States. ), (here) about a then-20 year old woman named Nano from Oslo, Norway. The photographs show a 20-year-old woman from Norway who says she identifies as a cat, not a school student in the United StatesThis article was produced by the Reuters Fact Check team.

☆ Rising Covid-19 cases in the UK may be a warning for the US
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Brenda Goodman | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —There are signs that the United Kingdom could be heading into a fall Covid-19 wave, and experts say the United States may not be far behind. A recent increase in Covid-19 cases in England doesn’t seem to be driven by a new coronavirus variant, at least for now, although several are gaining strength in the US and across the pond. Spector runs the Zoe Health Study, which uses an app to let people in the UK and US report their daily symptoms. After seeing a downward trend for the past few weeks, the Zoe study saw a 30% increase in reported Covid-19 cases within the past week. In the US, some models have predicted that Covid-19 cases will begin to rise again in October and continue to increase into the winter.

Criminal hackers have recently targeted U.S. school districts and will likely continue to escalate their attacks this school year, federal agencies warned Tuesday. Hackers infected the district’s computer networks with malicious software, locking up files and demanding a ransom payment. While classes in Los Angeles weren’t canceled, the attack caused a “significant disruption” to the school district and some of its services, the district announced. Since then, there haven’t been any such high-profile ransomware attacks on energy infrastructure. Ransomware attacks on schools also run the risk of giving hackers access to children’s personal information, the government warned.

☆ Inside the 'Wild West' of law-school recruiting that has Big Law reeling in talent earlier and more aggressively than ever
▼ + stars: | 2022-08-22 | by ( Jack Newsham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

Law schools bemoan the trend, but more and more of them allow it, such as Harvard and NYU this year. The nation's biggest and most powerful law firms have always sought to hire the best and brightest students from top law schools. Some schools have threatened to ban law firms from participating in OCI if they engage in pre-OCI recruiting. This year, law schools at both Harvard and NYU even unveiled formal early-interview programs. Last year, they made 1,771 such offers, amounting to 18% of the offers made by law firms that engaged in the practice.

☆ He was my high school journalism teacher. Then I investigated his relationships with teenage girls.
▼ + stars: | 2022-05-16 | by ( Matt Drange | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +40 min

It was a hot July day and the classroom at Rosemead High School should have been empty. (Christopher Vu for Insider) Show less Rosemead High School sits just east of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley. Burgess as an upperclassman at Rosemead High School with the former teacher Hugh Zegers, center, and classmates. The author interviewing Rod Marinelli, a Rosemead High School alum who was then coaching the Detroit Lions, for the Rosemead student newspaper, the Panther's Tale. The author and a classmate, Amy Julia Harris, beside their journalism teacher Burgess at graduation night in June 2007.

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☆ I made sure to have perfect attendance at work, and it backfired. Here's why I'll prioritize self-care going forward.
▼ + stars: | 2022-01-18 | by ( Ryan Fan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

I show up for work every day and have been praised for it. Before yesterday, I had almost perfect attendance at work in my two and a half years of teaching. Having perfect work attendance might seem like a baseline expectationBut you're not in my line of work as an educator. You can see how it's difficult to show up for work every day when reality can be that grim. There's a very valid reason for that pressureWhen teachers don't show up and there's no substitute to cover, school leaders have a big conundrum: Who's going to cover that class?

☆ World AIDS Day: 5 ways you can make a difference
▼ + stars: | 2018-12-01 | by ( Lauren Lee | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —December 1 is World AIDS Day, an annual event raising awareness and money to fight AIDS around the world. According to the World Health Organization, an “estimated 38.4 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2021.”CNN Impact Your World spoke with two high-profile AIDS activists about five ways we all can play a role preventing HIV and AIDS. Courtesy Above All PhotographyActivist Deondre Moore, HIV Plus Magazine’s 2022 Person of the Year, tested HIV-positive when he was 19. Courtesy Ashley Rose Murphy24-year-old Ashley Rose Murphy was born with HIV, exposed by her infected birth mother in the womb. 3.Educate yourself and spread the wordWhile in high school, Murphy traveled the world speaking about HIV and AIDS.

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