Teacher banned from classroom after hosting 'drunken' guitar-sing-song with pupils Michael Downes has been prohibited from teaching indefinitely after he played a guitar and had pupils sing along during a lesson while allegedly under the influence of alcohol ... 05/3/2024 - 11:30 pm | View Link
Oshkosh teacher allowed to resign after using racial slur in classroom The Vel Phillips teacher who was accused of using a racial slur resigned after video surfaced of the incident. 05/2/2024 - 3:06 am | View Link
Thinking Beyond the Square-Shaped Classroom: An Ode to Class Outside Can we pleassseee have class outside?” This was often the question I found myself asking my teachers in elementary and middle school. However, as I have begun my career in h ... 05/1/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
COMMUNITY CLASSROOM: Students hope to build screen-free greenspace for school courtyard, donations needed “We would like to add picnic tables to our courtyard at our school.,” Claire says. “Students can use them at lunch or as a space to work. This is a screen-free zone. Our project is halfway to being ... 04/30/2024 - 12:39 pm | View Link
New classroom behaviour model to be rolled out in schools Australian students will be taught old-school discipline – including how to line up, keep quiet and be still – in a bid to rid classrooms of the behaviour crisis that sees teachers routinely abused, ... 04/30/2024 - 7:36 am | View Link
“The presidential election may come down to a city in the Midwestern prairie that is home to Warren Buffett — a prospect that is raising hopes among some Democrats that the once-prolific political donor will come off the sidelines to try to power President Joe Biden to reelection,” Bloomberg reports.
“Back in 2016, the Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
“The U. S. is in talks with close partners to lead a group of allies that would give as much as $50 billion in aid to Ukraine, with the massive outlay being repaid with the windfall profits from sovereign Russian assets that have been frozen – and are accruing interest — mostly in Europe,” Bloomberg reports.
“Republicans have launched more than 30 investigations into the State Department since taking power in 2023, an unusually high number that is fueling partisan tensions,” Politico reports.
“Democratic lawmakers and State Department officials say this particular chapter of the growing partisan rancor on Capitol Hill is affecting U. S. foreign policy: It distracts U.
Nevada Independent: “The lawsuit alleges that the four-day period for mail ballots postmarked by Election Day to be received violates federal law because it does not conform to the Election Day deadline established by the federal government.”
Reproductive rights organizers in two states with near-total abortion bans, Missouri and South Dakota, submitted roughly double the signatures needed to allow ballot measures that would put abortion before voters.
In South Dakota, organizers have submitted 55,000 signatures in support of the ballot measure granting a limited right to abortion—far more than the 35,000 required.