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Oregon education guide encourages schools to hide students’ gender identity from parents

Oregon education officials released a guide Thursday on how schools should deal with gender ideology following “dehumanizing media coverage against gender-affirming education.”

The 48-page guide released by the Oregon Department of Education, titled “Supporting Gender Expansive Students, Guidance for Schools,” also encourages schools not to inform parents of their child’s gender identity.

“To the extent possible, schools should refrain from disclosing information about a student’s gender identity, even to parents,” the document reads.

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Empty classroom in an elementary school. The Oregon Department of Education has

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Ohio Senate OKs shift in oversight of education to governor

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The latest proposal to give Ohio’s governor more power overseeing K-12 education cleared the Republican-led state Senate on Wednesday despite objections that lawmakers are rushing legislation to significantly change decision-making about academic standards, model curricula and school district ratings, among other things.

Oversight of the state’s education department would shift to a director appointed by the governor, instead of the State Board of Education and the superintendent it elects. The bill would also rename the Ohio Department of Education as the Department of Education and Workforce, and transfer many of the state school board’s powers to

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Pandemic widened California’s ‘achievement gap’

When the California Legislature reconvenes this week for a new biennial session it will have dozens of new faces and also dozens of old, unresolved issues.

Housing shortages, inflation, homelessness and drought are among the larger ones, but none is more important than the state’s crisis in public education.

If the Legislature did nothing else during the next two years, the session would be a success if it decisively addressed the widening “achievement gap” that separates poor and English learner students — about 60% of the state’s nearly 6 million public school students — from those who come from more

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Jazz For Teens Education Program Celebrates 25 Years Of Impacting Thousands Of Young Musicians

Spring semester January 21-May 13, 2023, every Saturday @ 10:00 am-5:00 pm Special 25th anniversary performance May 13, 2023.

The New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), the state’s anchor cultural institution, celebrates 25 years of offering thousands of high schoolers from Newark and beyond music lessons and performance experiences through its popular TD Jazz for Teensprogram. One of the first of many arts education institutions at NJPAC, it has grown into a nationally recognized and revered program producing stellar alumni such as MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Tyshawn Sorey. The 2022-23 school year is in full swing and accepting students for

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Wave of retirement hits Canadian workforce

TORONTO –

Canada is facing a wave of retirements driven by workers in high-pressure sectors, with an increasing number retreating before they turn 65.

A new analysis of labor force survey data by the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) found that 73,000 more people retired in the year ending August 2022 compared to a year earlier, a jump of 32 per cent.

Two-thirds of those excess retirements were in four industries: health care, construction, retail trade, and education and social assistance.

Senior economist David Macdonald said it’s highly unusual to see retirements at this level. But a closer look

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“Everyone is invited”: You can take dozens of free courses at UBC

Is there an area of ​​study you’ve always wanted to dive into? Business? Software development? Writing? Phycology?

No, that’s not a typo. It’s actually the study of algae.

Now is your chance as UBC is offering free online courses in a variety of subjects thanks to a collaboration between the university and an online learning platform called, EdX.

EdX says the courses give people around the world the ability to advance the skills required for a job or to advance their education.

“We believe that education is the key to unlocking potential, to driving innovation and evolution. Yet, access to

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Yukon education department accidentally leaks student data

A few errant keystrokes by an education department worker exposed the data of more than 500 Yukon students, according to a notification obtained by CBC News.

“[T]he breach involves a risk of significant harm to your privacy,” reads the letter to affected students. The letter says names, phone numbers, email addresses, dates of birth and social insurance numbers were all included.

The leak took place when a department employee included an unidentified person’s email address when forwarding a spreadsheet containing the data of students who applied to a post-secondary grant program to colleagues. Staff attempted to contact the person, the

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Alberta education minister appoints commissioner regulating teachers

Alberta Education Minister Adriana LaGrange has appointed lawyer Julia Sproule as the province’s first teaching profession commissioner.

A Wednesday cabinet order made official Sproule’s five-year term starting Jan. 1. The Alberta Teachers’ Association (ATA) will no longer be in charge of professional discipline and Sproule will oversee a new complaint process for the province’s teachers beginning next year.

It’s a new job created after the government passed a law in May aiming to eliminate any potential conflict of interest for the association that also represents 46,000 teachers as a union.

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