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The warning follows several months of financial crisis within the district. Just a few months ago, Oakland Unified was projected to run out of cash as early as fall 2025, with an anticipated $95 million budget shortfall. That deficit was reduced to $30 million, the district said over the summer, in large part through reduction and rearrangement of staffing. But district staff warned that Oakland Unified was still spending more than it receives and retaining too many employees with money the district simply doesn't have.

In a letter sent to the community Thursday, Saddler - who stepped into the top role over the summer after the school board ousted longtime superintendent Kyla Johnson-Trammell - said that $100 million must be cut from the 2026-27 budget in order for the district to stay afloat. "People we know and care about will lose their jobs. Programs our students love will be reduced or eliminated," Saddler said.

My parents were strict at home but at school people can airdrop you videos or show you their screen without invitation, to see your reaction. My school had a see it, hear it, lose it' policy, but in reality we just used them under the desk, in the toilets, during lunch break, in the playground, on the bus, even in the corridors. It was impossible for the teachers to stop us.

Much better to defer a white paper on special needs education in England than to announce plans in haste, only to be forced to withdraw them. This was the calculation behind the government's decision to put off until next year its plans for reform in a vitally important and sensitive area. Some council leaders were disappointed by the delay, such is their desperation about overspends.

SAN LEANDRO - Police here arrested a teacher at Bancroft Middle School after a 13-year-old girl reported that he'd inappropriately touched her repeatedly, starting when she was 12 years old, in what investigators described as "grooming stages," court records show. Laurentino Huerta-Garcia, 40, of Manteca, was charged in October with a single felony count of continuous sexual abuse of a child.

Eduba, developed by Roie Avni, is an adaptive classroom furniture system that challenges the static nature of traditional learning spaces. Designed to make classrooms more flexible, dynamic, and student-centered, it allows quick and intuitive changes in layout and posture, enabling a fluid learning experience that evolves throughout the day. The system includes a and a , both designed for versatility and ease of use. Each piece can be connected, detached, or flipped to create different configurations.

On a grassroots level, it could not be clearer: Irish people want to learn Irish. An island-wide Údarás na Gaeltachta study found last year that 74pc wish to improve their level.

Overthe past few years, a huge number of schools in the United States and around the world have banned cell phone use among their students. It's a divisive topic, and the effects are only starting to come into focus. Just look at New York State, where governor Kathy Hocul and lawmakers put a ban into the state budget last spring in an effort to give kids a break from distractions at school.

During elementary school, I often resisted being homeschooled or attending a private evangelical Christian school, so the summer before seventh grade, I begged my parents to let me return to public school. They agreed, but that transition was also difficult. I felt like a fish out of water, completely naive and innocent in terms of pop culture and developmental knowledge. In other words, no matter which form of schooling I endured, there were real challenges: physical, mental, and emotional.

What you see is the result of a collaborative journey between three fields: education, architecture, and fabrication. The educational perspective guided us in designing a school that responds to the needs of children in a world increasingly dominated by digital technology, fostering instead a connection to nature. The architects shaped forms, spaces, and light that make every living being-children, plants, and animals-feel recognized and alive.

Kevin Kiernan, the winningest girls' coach in state history with 900 career wins, according to CalHiSports, has come out of retirement for a second stint at Troy, where he coached for 11 years before heading over to Mater Dei for an 18-year run as girls' coach and later athletic director. He's also coached at Westminster La Quinta as well as boys' basketball and was women's coach at Cypress College.

The law aims to build on the Dignity for all Students Act, which took effect in 2012 and is designed to provide public elementary and secondary school students with a safe and supportive environment without discrimination, intimidation, taunting, harassment, and bullying on school property, a school bus, and/or at a school function, according to the New York State Education Department.

Dominic Perfetti is a 6-foot-7 starting basketball player for St. John Bosco. Even more impressive is that he's one of the top high school lacrosse players in the nation and has committed to Syracuse. He became interested in lacrosse when a friend gave him a stick when he was 6 years old. He started fooling around with it and has been playing lacrosse ever since.

I've surfaced from sleep in many weird, not-wonderful ways: waking up in my student accommodation in Maynooth to find I was not only in my boots, but sharing a single bed with two other fully grown people springs to mind.

Noah was on an NRT bus, paid for by the Cambridge School District, on his way back from the New England Center for Children in Southborough. Linda Vick told Boston.com that she learned of the incident on Wednesday, Oct. 28, days later, when DCF alerted her to it. Looking back, Vick said her son's signing "all done" meant he didn't want to get back on the bus. "If we knew this happened, we would have known what he meant," Vick said.

Stickel, formerly deputy chief, has been serving as interim chief since Sept. 20 following the retirement of Chief Anthony Bellamy. "Chief Stickel has demonstrated unwavering dedication, professionalism and leadership throughout his tenure with CUPD," Honan said. "His commitment to campus safety, community engagement and operational excellence has earned the respect of his peers and the broader Cornell community. This promotion is a well-deserved recognition of his service and vision for the future of CUPD."

We all know that a legal education can land the average law school graduate in up to six figures of debt (to be specific, on average, 2025 graduates racked up more than $112,500 in student debt), and we all know that egregiously high tuition costs are to blame. But which schools had the most costly tuition and fees for out-of-state students for the 2024-2025 academic year? The Short List blog of U.S. News has compiled a ranking for that, and it's not at all shocking that almost all 15 schools that made the list are private.

Every Instructional Designer (ID) knows the drill. You've completed your needs analysis, identified performance gaps, and gathered all your Subject Matter Expert content. Now comes the time-consuming task of creating detailed storyboards-formatting learning objectives, designing screen treatments, crafting assessment questions, and ensuring everything follows organizational standards. Hours turn into days as you meticulously structure content, proofread for errors, and maintain formatting consistency across dozens of screens. What if there was a way to reclaim 40% of that time by automating storyboard creation?

"Due to the severe budget constraints currently facing UC, the PPFP faculty hiring incentive is sunsetting as of fall 2025," the spokesperson said in a statement. "While the University will continue to provide five years of salary support to PPFP fellows hired by summer 2025 and in earlier years, no new incentives will be provided going forward. Campuses will still be able to hire PPFP fellows as part of their normal search and hiring processes, but the additional financial contribution from the incentive program will no longer be available."

The Department of Education is asking parents to fill out the three-question survey before Tuesday, December 16 A new survey by the Department of Education hopes to allow parents to inform schools' ethos - and can be completed in under five minutes. I completed the survey and found it easy to understand, with the Department keeping it short and sweet, posing just three questions.

When encouraging children to become excited about learning, it is very important to help them develop a positive academic self-concept. A person's academic self-concept is the way they identify with what type of student they are. It is how you would describe yourself as a student. A person has many different aspects to their overall self-concept and likely identifies with each aspect differently. For example, every person will identify with their athletic, artistic, musical, social, emotional, or academic self-concept in different ways.

When Tosha Alexander was 17, her world was unraveling. Her father had died, and with her mother unable to keep their lives together, foster care became the next stop in her journey. Then her history teacher, Brea Kitts, did something extraordinary. Without hesitation, Kitts - who was a single mother - stepped in and took legal custody. She gave Alexander not just a roof over her head, but a home, a sense of safety, and a chance to finish high school with her friends.

AI companies know that children are the future - of their business model. The industry doesn't hide their attempts to hook the youth on their products through well-timed promotional offers, discounts, and referral programs. "Here to help you through finals," OpenAI said during a giveaway of ChatGPT Plus to college students. Students get free yearlong access to Google's and Perplexity's pricey AI products. Perplexity even pays referrers $20 for each US student that it gets to download its AI browser Comet.

1. A 6-foot-long plush puppy, because sometimes bigger is better with the little crowd, and what could be better than a body-pillow of a pup for hours of cuddles and pretend play? (This guy would do GREAT on the floor is lava circuit.) 3. An interactive talking Ms. Rachel plushy if the other parent in your house is 100% Ms. Rachel, and you want to extend that learning love to playtime.

School board officials in the Cleveland suburb of Lakewood recently voted 4-1 to convert Lincoln Elementary school into a centralized early learning center, and re-direct all pre-kindergarten children from their neighborhood schools to there - a small but seismic change that advocates say will effectively sacrifice district's identity as a "walking school district" where virtually every student can access the classroom on foot.

This top L&D industry award celebrates the Capgemini-SweetRush team's co-creation of the high-impact ADVANCE program. Designed for an elite cadre of 500+ senior delivery executives (DEs), this high-energy, three-month blended leadership development journey focuses on preparing DEs with the core competences they need to lead the most complex and high-stakes client engagements. The award-winning blended approach incorporates executive-led discussions and skill-boosting sessions; small-group simulated practice sessions, and 1:1 mentoring on learners' development goals.

Three first-place finishes may have earned the Baja Racing team the designation "Iron Team," but its members credit the students who came before them for their success. "We succeeded on the back of giants," said team leader Casey Savage '25, a mechanical engineering major in Cornell Engineering. "It's all a testament to how well we pass information down, and how much care is taken to build on the prior years." Maya Chakraborty '27, mechanical engineering major and 2025-26 drivetrain lead, makes adjustments to the previous season's car during a test run at the team's practice track.

As an eLearning vendor, one of the primary aims is to develop eLearning experiences that are relevant and meaningful for every member of your audience. But how do you design L&D for the global audience that's available in diverse formats, and which questions should you ask to determine the ideal development stages for your project? This guide serves as a step-by-step roadmap for creating an action plan, defining stakeholders, setting clear goals, and more.

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The International Center for Journalists' (ICFJ) Disarming Disinformation initiative is a three-year program, supported by the Scripps Howard Foundation, that aims to slow the spread of disinformation through multiple programs such as investigative journalism, capacity building and media literacy education. ICFJ partnered with MediaWise from the Poynter Institute to develop and deliver media literacy programming. The media literacy training of trainers program accepted global participants for two different cohorts.

I started cleaning at the Helix in DCU, four days after I turned 16. I suppose you could call it nepotism as my mam worked there already so that is how I got the job - and I really like it, which is why I'm still there. But it did take up a lot of my time when I was in school, particularly from November to January during the panto season as I would be working late and sometimes would not be finished until midnight if the bar was open after the show.