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Inside the Schools Alaska Ignored

Two inches of raw sewage. Black mold. A bat infestation. Reporter Emily Schwing shares what she uncovered as she investigated dangerous conditions inside Alaska’s deteriorating public schools.
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Texas Lawmakers Want a Charter School Network to Stop Paying Its Superintendent Nearly $900K. The School Board Says No.

The rebuke from lawmakers and charter school leaders came after an investigation from ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed that Salvador Cavazos, who oversees fewer than 1,000 students, is among the most well-paid superintendents in the country.
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ProPublicaTexas Lawmakers Want a Charter School Network to Stop Paying Its Superintendent Nearly $900K. The School Board Says No.
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Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division

The class-action lawsuit claims that decimating the agency’s Office for Civil Rights will leave it unable to address issues of discrimination at school — violating the equal protection clause of the Fifth Amendment.
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ProPublicaParents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division
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Parents of teen burned at Saskatoon school question how police, school officials handled multiple warnings
The parents of two 15-year-old girls at Evan Hardy Collegiate in Saskatoon say they went to police and the school multiple times between June and August 2024 with concerns about escalating online threats from the student now accused of setting one of ...
#school #police #safety #violence #Saskatoon #News
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A quotation from Montaigne

We readily inquire, “Does he know Greek or Latin?” “Can he write poetry and prose?” But what matters most is what we put last: “Has he become better and wiser?” We ought to find out not who understands most but who understands best. We work merely to fill the memory, leaving the understanding and the sense of right and wrong empty.
 
[Nous enquerons volontiers, Sçait-il du Grec ou du Latin ? escrit-il en vers ou en prose ? mais, s’il est devenu meilleur ou plus advisé, c’estoit le principal, & c’est ce qui demeure derriere. Il falloit s’enquerir qui est mieux sçavant, non qui est plus sçavant. Nous ne travaillons qu’à remplir la memoire, & laissons l’entendement & la conscience vuide.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essay (1572-1578), “Of Pedantry [Du pedantisme]), Essays, Book 1, ch. 24 (1.24) (1595) [tr. Screech (1987), ch. 25]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/montaigne-michel-de/…

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The terms appeared in govt memos, in ofcl & unofficial agency guidance & in other docs. Some ordered the removal of these #words from public-facing websites, or the elimination of other materials (including #school curricula) in which they might be included.

Some agency managers advised caution in the terms’ usage w/o instituting a ban. Additionally, the presence of some terms was used to automatically flag for review some #grant proposals & contracts in conflict w/ #Trump’s #ExecutiveOrders.