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Pandemic widened California’s ‘achievement gap’

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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

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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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Ukraine faces ‘an education crisis and long-term brain drain’

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Inna Sovsun, a member of Ukraine’s parliament, speaks about her country’s education crisis on the sidelines of an international conference on educating refugees, hosted in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

By Svitlana Dukhovych and Deborah Castellano Lubov

The degradation of education and a ‘brain drain’ are the latest tragedies in Ukraine, as the country continues to be battered by war as Russia’s invasion continues. However, these issues can be mitigated if forces join together to guarantee safety and adequate bomb shelters in the war-torn country.

This was the message expressed by a member of the Ukrainian Parliament and Former

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LETTER: Reader says stance on education workers ‘misconstrued’

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‘I did say these folks received many perks that those in the private sector do not,’ says letter writer

BarrieToday welcome letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following is a rebuttal to ‘LETTER: Salary of $40K isn’t what it used to be,’ published Sept. 26.

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A few days ago, I placed a letter in BarrieToday in regards to the CUPE negotiations that are ongoing. In this letter, I indicated that many folks would be happy to earn $40,000 per year and,

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In Nevada governor’s debate, Trump-backed Lombardo seeks distance from former president

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LAS VEGAS — In a wide-ranging and mostly civil debate in Las Vegas, Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak and Republican challenger Joe Lombardo, the sheriff of Clark County, duked it out over education, taxes, inflation and abortion.

Notably, they agreed on only one issue: that the 2020 election was not stolen.

Asked by moderator Jon Ralston whether he agreed with former President Donald Trump’s false claims that the last presidential election in Nevada was “rigged,” Lombardo said, “No, I do not.

“There was modicum of fraud, but nothing to change the election,” he said.

Asked whether he thought Trump was a

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Ontario records surplus in last fiscal year and a drop in education spending

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Allison Jones, The Canadian Press



Published Friday, September 23, 2022 4:45PM EDT



TORONTO – Ontario ended the last fiscal year with a $2.1-billion surplus – a far cry from the $33-billion deficit projected in the budget – thanks to inflation and stronger economic growth, officials said Friday.

The surplus is a result of revenues that were 20 per cent higher than the 2021 budget forecast, largely coming from taxes, due to higher-than-expected inflation and nominal GDP growth more than five points higher than the average private sector forecast at the time of

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Alberta education minister appoints commissioner regulating teachers

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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.

A University of Alberta

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Saskatoon Board of Education calls for long-term funding after one-time offset – Saskatoon

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The Saskatoon Public Schools board of education approved a revised budget after the Government of Saskatchewan announced funding for the province’s school divisions amid inflationary costs.

$20 million was announced back in July and divided among the 27 school divisions, with $1,579,400 going to Saskatoon Public Schools.

The original budget came with a number of cutbacks, as 12.7 full time equivalent elementary teaching positions and 6.9 full time equivalent positions in secondary schools had to be dropped due to a $4.5-million shortfall.

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Saskatchewan Catholic board of education sees government funding, but still faces deficit

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