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• newsbrig.com3 hour(s) ago
• Are fans allowed at Super Bowl in 2021? NFL tickets attendance policy changes for COVID-19
• Even the Super Bowl isn’t immune from COVID-19.  The global pandemic that’s impacted the sports world and the world in general for nearly a year will limit attendance at the big game, too. The NFL had varying attendance policies throughout the 2020 regular season depending on where teams/stadiums were located, because different states and localities had different rules governing gatherings.  Super Bowl 55, at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, won’t feature a full stadium and will have additional policies in place that could keep fans with symptoms out...
• newsbrig.com9 hour(s) ago
• NYC parents question scrapping of Gifted and Talented admissions
• Parent leaders from three of the city’s top middle schools ripped City Hall’s decision to abolish Gifted and Talented entry exams. In a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio, PTA presidents from The Anderson School, New Explorations in Science, Techology and Math, and Lower Lab School argued that accelerated learning programs should be preserved and stressed that City Hall has been mum on their future. “We are writing to express our deep concern and disappointment with the announcement that the Department of Education plans to scrap the current G&T test...
• Voice of America9 hour(s) ago
• Role Reversal for US and Post-Brexit Britain
• Well-placed geographically and politically between America and Europe, Britain has long marketed itself as the diplomatic bridge linking the two continents. Most British prime ministers since World War Two have reached for the metaphor at some time or other to describe what they saw as Britain’s essential and aggrandizing function in transatlantic relations. When Europeans in 2001 were assailing President George W. Bush for his foreign policy plans, including pulling the U.S. out of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on climate change, Britain’s then-leader, Tony Blair, emphasized his desire to “build...
• cbslocal.com10 hour(s) ago
• Chicago Public Schools Plan To Return To In-Person Learning Monday, But Teachers Refuse To Come Back
• CHICAGO (CBS) — It is unclear whether Chicago Public Schools students will return to in-person learning next month. The district is ready, but the next round of teachers is refusing to come back on Monday. Some teachers who haven’t returned are already locked out online. Recorded online teaching sessions show art teacher, Linzi Melchor keeping her students engaged. While she looks forward to the day she will teach again at West Ridge Elementary, right now, she is refusing to step foot inside. “I’m considered AWOL, absent without leave,” she said. CPS...
• cbslocal.com12 hour(s) ago
• Duncanville ISD Launching Operation Connection To Help Students Struggling With Online Learning
• DUNCANVILLE, Texas (CBSDFW.COM) – One way or another, students are back in class, but COVID-19 has changed everything. Not everyone is plugged in to the online instruction. Educators know the learning loss is real. “It’s what keeps me up at night,” said Duncanville Superintendent Dr. Marc Smith. “It really is. Right now, we have about 55% of our students who are virtual. So they are at home learning and there are many challenges associated with that.” Smith says the district’s pass/failure rates are ten percentage points higher post COVID-19 and...
• cbslocal.com14 hour(s) ago
• PPS Students Cant Wait Another 2 Months To Get Back In The Classroom, Pittsburgh Learning Collaborative Says
• PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — The Pittsburgh Public Schools board is considering postponing in-person hybrid learning until after spring break, which would be April 6. The district says the resolution was prompted by COVID-19 data Allegheny County released last Friday. It’s been a waiting game to get them back into the classrooms. After news broke that the Pittsburgh Public Schools board will be voting to delay opening another two months, folks with the Pittsburgh Learning Collaborative say they want more transparency and understanding. “Opening during a pandemic is a risk, but it’s crucial...
• washingtonexaminer.com14 hour(s) ago
• Illinois looks to federal government for bailout money
• With a state budget $4 billion dollars out of balance, Illinois is running out of options to fill the gap. Gov. J.B. Pritzker was hoping to raise revenue by changing the tax code for Illinoisans, but voters rejected the amendment in November. During the lame-duck session last week, lawmakers failed to pass a small business tax increase. Pritzker wanted to eliminate state-level tax benefits created as a form of economic relief when Congress passed the CARES Act. Wes Tharpe, deputy director for State Policy Research for the...
• abc7chicago.com14 hour(s) ago
• Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative helping minority youth get into music school
• CHICAGO (WLS) -- African-American and Latinx musicians hold less than three percent of positions in major American orchestras. Thats according to the League of American Orchestras.A local group is trying to make it easier for minority students to break into the classical music industry. They are looking for gifted young musicians.Riverside Brookfield High School student Noah Briones, 17, is passionate about his music.I want to be a violinist in a professional orchestra and right now a step toward that is getting into a college music college, a conservatory, Briones said.The...
• New York Post15 hour(s) ago
• Parent leaders question City Halls scrapping of Gifted and Talented admissions
• More On: department of education DOE internship program forced to go remote — but kids find silver lining NYC DOE throws parents into tailspin after posting wrong exam information NYC families say DOE abandoned dual-language program at last minute NYC teacher, school secretary added to DOE COVID death toll Parent leaders from three of the city’s top middle schools ripped City Hall’s decision to abolish Gifted and Talented entry exams. In a letter to Mayor Bill de Blasio, PTA presidents from The Anderson School, New Explorations in Science, Techology...
• dailyvoice.com16 hour(s) ago
• This South Jersey District Struggles To Keep Public Schools Open
• City of Camden officials say they can no longer afford to teach less than 6,350 students at 19 different schools, in a district that used to educate nearly double that. When the state took over the Camden school system in 2013 after years of poor student performance and low graduation rates, the district enrolled more than 11,000 students in more than two dozen buildings. Thousands of students have since chosen to enroll in publicly-funded charter schools. The city’s eight charter schools enroll 4,188 students, while 12 Renaissance schools have 5,449 students....
• wtop.com17 hour(s) ago
• Mexico looks to reopen schools in just one of its states
• MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico will start vaccinating teachers and other school personnel in one of the country’s 32 states this weekend with an eye toward resuming in-person classes there as early as late next month, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said Friday. The announcement came one day after Mexico set new daily records for coronavirus infections and COVID-19 deaths. But in the southeastern state of Campeche, the virus’ spread has remained in control and relatively stable for weeks. It was the first state to rate green on the government’s...
• cbslocal.com17 hour(s) ago
• Enrollment In Colorado Public Schools Drops By 3.3% In 2020-21 School Year
• DENVER (CBS4) – The State of Colorado has finished an official count, and it shows a dramatic overall decrease in enrollment in public schools this school year. The overall enrollment dipped by 3%, with the biggest drop being in the lowest grades, and education officials point directly to the coronavirus pandemic as the culprit. Students line up to head into Monarch High School in Louisville earlier this week. (credit: CBS) “The state student population had its first decrease in year-to-year enrollment in over three decades due to the impact...
• minnpost.com18 hour(s) ago
• Reopening elementary schools: How its done matters
• Both Minneapolis and St. Paul recently announced plans to fully reopen elementary schools in February for the first time since March 2020, when they were shuttered in response to the pandemic. In-person school serves multiple critical functions in our society, including educating children, allowing valuable social interaction that supports children’s development, and serving as child care while parents and other caregivers work. Certainly getting children safely back to school should be a top priority. However evidence strongly suggests that halting in-person school was important for dampening community spread of coronavirus....
• cvbj.biz19 hour(s) ago
• Madrid defends presence in universities because they are safe environments
• The Community of Madrid has defended the student presence in universities because they are “safe environments“having established measures of “Very tight” security. This was stated this Friday at a telematic press conference by the Minister of Health, Enrique Ruiz Escudero, accompanied by the Deputy Minister of Public Health and the Covid-19 Plan, Antonio Zapatero; and the general director of Public Health, Elena Andradas. Escudero has been in favor of the fact that whenever an activity takes place in a safe environment, it should continue with it. That itself has...
• CNBC21 hour(s) ago
• These colleges went to remote learning but hiked tuition anyway
• VIDEO4:3004:30Purdue University president on keeping tuition costs flat during the pandemicSquawk Box Until the coronavirus crisis, nothing had been able to slow the pace of annual college tuition increases. Year after year, college costs edged higher, rising 3% to 5%, on average — outpacing inflation and family income. However, in the midst of the pandemic, schools are under pressure to keep these increases in check. Several institutions said they would freeze tuition during the ongoing economic crisis, while a smaller number announced discounts or even more dramatic tuition cuts. As a result, this...
• cbslocal.com21 hour(s) ago
• Chicago Inspector General Recommending Urgent Changes To CPD Search Warrant Policy To Address Wrong Raids
• CHICAGO (CBS) — As part of an ongoing audit of the Chicago Police Department’s search warrant policies, the city’s top watchdog is recommending CPD make critical changes, in an effort to create accountability in a system that has lacked it for years. The “urgent recommendations” from the city’s Office of Inspector General come as part of its review of CPD search warrant policies, launched as result of CBS 2’s years-long investigation into wrong raids. “In light of the urgent need to prevent serious harm to Chicagoans in the execution of search warrants...
• thehill.com21 hour(s) ago
• Chicago teachers begin vote to refuse in-person teaching
• The Chicago Teachers Union (CTS) has begun a vote to refuse in-person teaching due to the coronavirus pandemic. The union announced Wednesday that over 80 percent of its 600-member House of Delegates voted to pass a resolution authorizing all of its members to conduct remote work only beginning Jan. 25. The resolution now goes to the entire unit for a vote on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. CTU represents over 25,000 teachers working in Chicago Public Schools (CPS). The vote comes as CPS plans to resume in-person learning...
• dailyvoice.com22 hour(s) ago
• Nearly A Dozen Police Have Left City Department Amid National Wave Of Quitting Cops
• About 10 police officers have departed from a Western Massachusetts city following defund the police budget cuts over the summer. And another 11 officers have put in an application for employment in other departments. The exodus marks a problem with morale at the Northampton Police Department in the wake of calls to “defund the police,” subsequent budget cuts, and protests against law enforcement, Chief Jody Kasper told MassLive. Cuts were announced in June when city officials were hammering out the annual budget. The police department’s proposed $6.7 million...
• cbslocal.com24 hour(s) ago
• Chicago Public Schools Announces Vaccination Plan With Mid-February Start
• CHICAGO (CBS)– Chicago Public Schools, with the Chicago Department of Public Health, announced plans to begin vaccinating staff in mid-February. “CPS expects to begin receiving vaccines directly in mid-February, at which point it will begin a multi-month effort to offer vaccinations to eligible staff,” officials stated in a written release.  According to state health officials, vaccination eligibility expands to school staff and other employees in frontline essential roles beginning on January 25 in phase 1b. CPS officials said the amount of vaccines available for staff is “contingent upon federal vaccine...