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Why New York’s neediest families aren’t using free pre-K and 3K

NEW YORK — Six years ago, New York City hosted leaders from a dozen cities across the US to share lessons learned from its free early childhood education program for over 70,000 4-year-olds.

The immensely popular universal prekindergarten program was the brainchild of former Mayor Bill de Blasio in 2014. Three years later, he began expanding it to 3-year-olds. The pioneering education policy remains the single biggest achievement from de Blasio’s two terms in office. It was so successful that it became a national model for other major cities like Seattle and Washington.

And yet, in a wildly expensive city

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Telehealth in 2023 – Rickard & Associates

Healthcare continues to utilize telehealth platforms for appointments and various services. This will continue into the new year, thanks to legislative updates.

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While telehealth continues to expand and change, there are several notable updates.

So what’s new?

In Michigan, the Governor just signed a bill allowing psychologists to use telehealth with clients in multiple states. They will be able to temporarily offer in-person services in other states.

Michigan entered the

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Best Non-Alcoholic Beer | Shopping : Food Network

Whether you’re abstaining from alcohol for a short period of time or have sworn it off altogether, you’ve likely heard the hype: non-alcohol (NA) and alcohol-free (AF) beer is IN. Sales of so-called near beer and low-alcohol beer were up 19.5% in 2022, according to NielsenIQ, and thanks to advances in technology, they now taste so, so much better than they used to. For beer lovers, that means dozens of tasty options are now available from around the world — produced both by NA/AF-exclusive breweries as well as “regular” breweries of all sizes cashing in on what smart money predicts

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Expect more attacks on public education in Virginia 2023

Del. Marcus Simon, D-Fairfax, expects to be playing defense during the upcoming General Assembly session, at least when it comes to the ongoing push by Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Republicans in the state legislature to carry out a culture war crusade in state education.

“Democrats are going to be a little bit on our heels again, trying to protect the progress that we’ve made,” Simon said, “against efforts to redefine obscenity, to limit access to educational materials and to elevate the desires of some parents under the guise of ‘parental rights’ over what’s really best for students and parents all

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Whole-grain food consumption is impacted by consumer skepticism and lack of labeling standards

Whole-grain food consumption impacted by consumer skepticism and lack of standard labeling

Relationship of themes arising from Australian consumer (n = 43) and food industry perspectives (n = 17) around whole-grain food definition, labeling, and grain food choice. credits: Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2022.08.006

Despite numerous health benefits and recommendations from dietary guidelines, whole-grain food intake remains low globally. A research article featured in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behaviorstudies consumer understanding of whole-grain food definitions and industry labeling practices.

“Without clear regulation and labeling standards, the benefits of educating consumers on how to increase

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This is why the NJ Legislature must redefine anti-Semitism

Anti-Semitic incidents have been on the rise in New Jersey. Condemnation of all forms of Jew-hatred is necessary and important, but not enough. Education and dialogue are needed to address Jew-hatred in New Jersey. To be able to truly engage in education and dialogue to combat such bigotry, the State of New Jersey needs to adopt a definition of anti-Semitism.

In May 2022, S2434/A3882 was introduced in the New Jersey State Legislature, which would establish the definition of anti-Semitism adopted by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (“IHRA”) in 2016 as the State’s definition of anti-Semitism. The IHRA defines anti-Semitism as

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Are You Providing Patients with their Records Quickly Enough?

The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) continues to enforce their HIPAA Right of Access initiative on behalf of patients.

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Healthcare providers have been warned about complying with the HIPAA Right of Access as set out in the 21st Century CURES Act.

Now, providers are seeing words in action.

Since beginning the enforcement initiative, the OCR has brought forth 38 actions with financial penalties against healthcare providers in violation of the

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LCS and ACS approves FY 2023 budgets and capital plans

Sept. 20—This month, the Limestone County and Athens City Boards of Education approved budgets and capital plans for the 2022-23 school years.

The Fiscal Year will end on Sept. 30, 2023.

FY 2023 budget terms

For more in-depth coverage of the terminology and definitions used in the budget, visit The News Courier’s website to read the Aug. 27 article when the school boards first proposed their budgets for the 2022-23 school years.

FY 2023 capital plan

Capital Plan Capital Planning is the process of budgeting for system and campus growth and renewal for buildings, infrastructure, and land.

The FY 2023

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