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New vans allow Nanaimo Science to double up on education outreach | NanaimoNewsNOW

Nanaimo Science, a non-profit agency, is headquartered at Country Club Centre, with their mobile science vans filled with everything science brought directly to the kids.

For the past eight years, the programs have been coordinated through Nanaimo Ladysmith Public Schools for grades two, five, and six. They also work with teachers to coordinate special field trips, or go into classrooms to teach things like coding and computer programming, as well as provide support for home-schooled students.

Parker said having a second van allows them to offer dual programs in different locations, with their new cargo van making it easier to

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No necessary masks in Ontario faculties this fall, Training Ministry says

Masks won’t be necessary in Ontario faculties this September, the province’s Training Ministry says.

In an electronic mail to CBC Toronto on Monday, the ministry stated most well being and security necessities for the upcoming college 12 months will stay unchanged from the top of the 2021-22 college 12 months, which incorporates the voluntary use of masks.

“The federal government will proceed to supply free high-quality masks for college kids and N95s for workers, in the event that they select to make use of them, all which stays unchanged from the 2021-22 college 12 months,” reads the e-mail.

“College boards

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US Training Secretary Cardona to go to SC HBCU subsequent week

US Training Secretary Miguel Cardona is making his first go to to South Carolina, stopping at a traditionally Black college, the place he’ll hear instantly from college students about how the pandemic disrupted their lives and their studying simply days earlier than a brand new college yr is about to start.

The Aug. 15 journeys will take Cardona to Orangeburg, the place he’ll go to SC State College alongside US Home Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, an alumnus of the varsity and the very best rating Black member of Congress.

The journey was first introduced by SC State College, and later

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Find out how to Keep a Wholesome Weight Throughout Quarantine

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With 24 hours and seven days per week all to ourselves – no work, faculty, and extracurricular actions, we’re all vulnerable to unhealthy consuming and being sofa potatoes, which might result in weight achieve.

Some are even calling this, “Quarantine 15,” similar to the generally used expression in the USA, “Freshman 15,” that refers back to the weight gained (normally round 10-15 kilos) throughout a pupil’s first 12 months at school.

Properly, that is okay if all of us have the identical metabolism as 18 12 months olds. Nevertheless, we aren’t. So earlier than we achieve that 15 kilos,

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Sam Asghari Defends Britney Spears After Kevin Federline Claims Sons Do not Need to See Her

Sam Asghari has Britney Spears‘ again.

The pop star’s husband has come to her protection following her ex Kevin Federline‘s bombshell claims in regards to the former couple’s sons, Sean Preston Federline16, and Jayden James Federline15. In a uncommon interview with ITV Information, shared prematurely with the Mail on Sunday newspaper, the pop star’s former husband mentioned their boys haven’t seen their mom for months and “determined they aren’t seeing her proper now.”

In accordance with the newspaper, Kevin Britney’s previous Instagram posts of her nude pics, that are censored, and on-line feedback about him and

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Lawsuit against USC education school alleges fraud in US News & World Report data

LOS ANGELES, CA-MAY 17, 2018: Tommy Trojan, officially known as the Trojan Shrine, is a life-size bronze statue of a Trojan warrior located on the USC campus in Los Angeles on May 17, 2018. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times)

Former students filed a class action lawsuit alleging USC Rossier School of Education fraudulently advertised and inflated the graduate school’s online education programs. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)

The University of Southern California’s education school was sued Tuesday by former students who claim that officials violated state law by falsely advertising the graduate program’s high online degree ranking, which was based in part on fraudulent data submitted to US News & World Report’s college rating list.

The class-action lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges that USC and 2U Inc., a technology company hired by the university to

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Claudine Gay Makes History as First Black Harvard President | News

Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay made her second historic first on Thursday when Harvard announced her selection as the University’s 30th president — the first person of color to hold the role.

Gay previously made history when she was appointed as the first person of color and first woman to serve in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ top post. Gay, who will succeed President Lawrence S. Bacow in July, will also be the only second woman to president over the University and the second Black woman to lead an Ivy League school, after former Brown University

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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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