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Housing disaster is a think about Nunavut trainer scarcity

by Oktavina

With the beginning of the college 12 months solely days away, the Nunavut Lecturers Affiliation worries the territory’s schooling division might have issue hiring sufficient lecturers in communities like Cambridge Bay, Arctic Bay, Kinngait, Igloolik and Naujaat, the place a number of positions stay unfilled.

Faculty will get ongoing subsequent week in Nunavut for a lot of lecturers, with college students in 10 communities, from Kugluktuk to Arctic Bay, slated to return Aug. 15.

That is in response to the territorial college calendar obtained from the Authorities of Nunavut’s schooling division.

In keeping with the federal government, educator vacancies range

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Florida Trainer Quits, Complains Workers Took Photos Of Black Icons Off His Wall

by Oktavina

A Florida trainer says he has stop after studying a college district worker “eliminated” footage of historic Black figures from his classroom partitions, the Pensacola Information Journal reported.

Michael James, a particular training trainer for 15 years, informed Gov. Ron DeSantis and Escambia County Superintendent Tim Smith that the varsity worker took down what she known as “age-inappropriate” pictures.

“I hate to say this about all people within the employees or the management there, however one thing just isn’t proper,” James mentioned. “One thing must be modified or fastened.”

OJ Semmes Elementary, the place James was set to show in

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Find out how to Keep a Wholesome Weight Throughout Quarantine

by Oktavina

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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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Well being and Wellness-Themed Reward Concepts for Mom’s Day

by Oktavina

Because the battle towards coronavirus continues, well being and wellness have develop into a high most precedence. And as Mom’s Day is quick approaching, what higher present to present the moms in your life than one thing that may assist them keep on high of their well being.

Well being-conscious or not, I am positive your mother, spouse, grandmother, sister or buddy will put these health-inspired present concepts to good use. The listing is not nearly good meals and health, it additionally consists of presents that may care for their psychological and emotional well being too.

Self-Care and Wholesome Residing

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Superior Schooling minister says Alberta will assist with the relocation of 500 Athabasca College college workers

by Oktavina

Alberta’s Superior Schooling minister says he’s keen to assist Athabasca College with no matter it desires — together with cash — to relocate 500 staff to the small city that is the college’s namesake however says the college has not stepped up.

“I have been provided to supply any form of help that the college wants. They have not requested for something,” Demetrios Nicolaides mentioned in a weekend interview.

Nicolaides mentioned his division beforehand requested the college for a concrete plan by June 30 to develop the bodily presence of the college within the city of two,800.

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

by Oktavina
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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‘Constitution’ gets a grilling in thought-provoking Florida Studio Theater play

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Amy Bodnar stars in the Florida Studio Theater production of Heidi Schreck's play “What the Constitution Means to Me.”

Amy Bodnar stars in the Florida Studio Theater production of Heidi Schreck’s play “What the Constitution Means to Me.”

When she was 15 years old, Heidi Schreck banked a lot of scholarship money for her future college education by competitively speaking or debating at American Legion halls about the US Constitution and whatever personal connection she may have to the document.

Her play “What the Constitution Means to Me,” which opened Friday night at Florida Studio Theatre, is a more adult response to the sunny presentations Schreck delivered as a teenager, when she compared the Constitution to a witch’s caldron,

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Pandemic widened California’s ‘achievement gap’

by Oktavina

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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