Wallingford schools report gains in student academics, wellness
WALLINGFORD — Administrators from the high schools and middle schools presented plans for continuing to improve academics and student wellness at this week’s Board of Education Instructional Committee meeting.
Joseph Corso, principal of Lyman Hall High School, and Enzo Zocco, principal of Sheehan High School, started off the presentation with academic updates at the high school level.
Corso said both high schools’ administrators look heavily at PSAT and SAT testing data. The PSAT results show students are improving.
“Our students are continuing to grow,” Corso said. “When they came to us, one of the alarming trends that we saw through
Randolph High School investigating gender locker room dispute
RANDOLPH, Vt. (WCAX) – Randolph High Schools girl’s volleyball team has been banned from its own locker room while school officials investigate a conflict involving a transgender student on the team.
Vermont education policy says students can play sports and use the locker room corresponding to their gender. But some members of the Randolph girl’s volleyball team objected to having a transgender teammate in the room while they were changing.
“It’s a huge thing. Everyone’s asking, ‘So, why aren’t you allowed in the locker room?’” said Blake Allen, who along with her fellow teammates are currently barred from using the
Plan for new South Side high school narrowly passed by Chicago Board of Education, amid both opposition and praise
Despite declining student enrollment in Chicago Public Schools and lingering concerns from neighborhood groups, the Chicago Board of Education on Wednesday narrowly approved a plan to purchase land and take the first steps toward building a proposed $120 million Near South Side high school.
The board voted 4-3 in support of buying property at 23rd Street and Wabash Avenue for $10.3 million to exchange with the Chicago Housing Authority, which would lease to the board a 1.7-acre site at 2450 S. State St. — once the site for the former Ickes Homes public housing complex — for the high school.
Carrot Almond Casserole – JennifersKitchen
How great is it when healthy food is also easy to make? And when it’s gluten-free too? And when it’s also vegan? And when it can be made ahead of time (and freezes well)? And when leftovers are just as good as the first time around?
Sounds to me like the perfect meal for a group. The health nuts will be happy. The dieters will be happy. The vegans will be happy. The gluten-free people will be happy. And you will be happy.
This delicious Carrot Almond Casserole is amazingly versatile – not only does it go great with mashed
Gov. Wolf celebrates education investments over past 8 years
Gov. Tom Wolf joined educators, elected officials and students at Aliquippa High School to tout the $3.7 billion investments in public education over his eight years in office.“The future of Pennsylvania, the future of our country, it runs through places like this,” Wolf said Thursday. “It runs through Aliquippa High.” Wolf said this investment started with $1.9 billion over the past seven years. “That wasn’t enough to give our students and our communities, our schools, the resources they needed to make sure that we have the future that we all needed,” Wolf said.This year’s budget alone almost matched that with …
Overweight US Adolescents Eat More Ultra-Processed Foods
September 21, 2022 · 7:00 PM
An article in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics found an association between overweight/obesity and consumption of ultra–processed foods in US adolescents.
The study looked at 3,600 adolescents who reported their food intake over a 24-hour period. The results are pretty strong: the more ultra-processed food consumed, the greater the odds of overweight and obesity.
Jan at The Low Carb Diabetic blog reported that:
Ultra-processed foods make up ‘two-thirds of calories consumed by children and teens’
Experts from Tufts University in Massachusetts studied
Two Hospitals Fined for Violation of Medicare’s Price Transparency Law
September 15, 2022 · 7:00 AM
I’ve long been an advocate for price transparency in healthcare. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (aka CMS) has recently taken action that requires hospitals to post their prices online, which should boost competition and help you shop around to save money. If memory serves, the price posting only applies to a limited number of services. I presume the rare hospitals that don’t accept Medicare and Medicaid payments are exempt.
From MedPage Today:
This week [June 2022], CMS handed down their first penalties to two hospitals in Georgia for