Biden-Harris Administration announces new school meal standards to strengthen child nutrition Nutrition standards for school meals will be gradually updated to include less sugar and greater flexibility with menu planning between fall 2025 and fall 2027. The Department arrived at these changes ... 06/15/2024 - 6:40 am | View Link
New York City Removes Two Parents From School Councils Over Behavior One parent led a push to review rules around transgender athletes. The other had encouraged pro-Palestinian student activism. The chancellor said their conduct at parent meetings crossed a line. 06/14/2024 - 10:45 pm | View Link
Bill would require Long Island IDAs to have union, public school representatives At least five of Long Island's eight IDAs already either have board members with ties to unions or public schools, according to a Newsday review of IDA board-member biographies. 06/14/2024 - 6:50 am | View Link
NPS eyes historic Black school in Maryland as park site The agency recommended the designation for the San Domingo School, one of more than 5,000 schools built across the South during the Jim Crow era by Julius ... 06/14/2024 - 6:25 am | View Link
Layoffs averted: How Yonkers found cash to keep 239 school staffers hired with federal aid Yonkers finalized a $1.5B budget that averted 47 school layoffs that had been planned after the loss of federal pandemic aid after a few years. 06/13/2024 - 8:00 pm | View Link
Don’t flip out, Livvy Dunne. Apologies, bayou moms. Paul Skenes may have an LSU girlfriend and an LSU baseball card. He’s still, deep down, a Zoomie at heart.
“Anything that I can do, or any of us can do, to bring eyes to the Air Force Academy is good,” Skenes, the Pittsburgh Pirates pitching phenom and former AFA baseball star told a crowded circle of reporters earlier this weekend at Coors Field, where he was supposed to pitch against the Rockies, but won’t.
“Especially with how much it affected me.
This year’s Juneteenth Parade marched through Denver’s Five Points neighborhood to kick off the two-day Juneteenth Music Festival in celebration of the day that African Americans in Texas learned of their freedom, two years after the 1863 signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, as seen on Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Denver, Colorado.
The Rockies are not counting on Adael Amador to make a huge splash in the big-league pool. They’ll settle for some ripples. For now.
They want the 21-year-old second baseman, their No. 1 prospect, to get his feet wet, make some mistakes, and learn. So when he is a full-time major leaguer, he won’t be drowned by expectations.
“We want to get him acclimated,” manager Bud Black said.
Summer is still five days away, but the weather is heating up in Colorado, with near-record temperatures in the Denver area.
With warm weather comes an increase in boaters, paddleboarders and kayakers taking to Colorado’s lakes and reservoirs. Here’s how to stay safe and follow the rules to make the most of your time on the water.
Afternoons and severe weather
Weather is one of the biggest unknowns people need to be wary of, according to Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesperson Grant Brown.
By JACK JEFFERY (Associated Press)
JERUSALEM (AP) — An explosion in southern Gaza killed eight Israeli soldiers, the military said Saturday, making it the deadliest attack on Israeli forces in months.
The attack, coming more than eight months into a grinding war that shows few signs of ending soon, was likely to fuel new calls for a cease-fire by Israeli protesters.