Colorado bill would improve services for students with disabilities
Sam Jarris spent years moving from college to college before graduating. As a student with autism, he often found that professors and administrators were either indifferent or hostile to what he needed to be successful. Jarris, 31, remembers asking a teacher to change a word problem he was having trouble understanding due to his disability. …
Schools will resume on Thursday – Tánaiste
Schools will resume on Thursday as scheduled, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar confirmed. The government will ask its public health advisers to consider relaxing the rules on restricting the movement of fully vaccinated close contacts, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar said. Mr Varadkar, speaking to reporters in government buildings, said the rules were causing problems in utilities, industry and …
ISU updates quarantine and isolation procedures; spring semester FAQ answers | News
Illinois State University is updating its FAQs on the Coronavirus website by answering frequently asked questions about the start of the spring semester. The Illinois Department of Public Health said Dec. 30 it approved the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s updated quarantine and isolation requirements. The ISU plans to share more information soon on …
End of monthly child tax credit payments, end cushion for family budgets
Families are bracing for bank balances to suffer in mid-January, unlike the monthly child tax credit payment. More than 30 million households began receiving up to $ 300 per child in July after Congress temporarily turned an annual tax break into a near-universal monthly benefit. The full extended credit went to households with incomes of …
Qatar, like Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, but unlike Kuwait, cleans its textbooks
Qatar has started cleaning up its textbooks of supremacist, racist or derogatory references as well as celebrations of violent jihad and martyrdom, according to a recently published study. The revision of textbooks in the last year before Qatar hosts the 2022 World Cup is designed to keep the Gulf state in the lighthouse beauty pageant …
Is the government intruding on our personal lives by determining the age of marriage?
On December 20, 2021, a very crucial bill known as “Prohibition of Child Marriage (Amendment) Bill, 2021Was introduced at Lok Sabha by Ms. Smriti Irani, Union Minister for the Development of Women and Children, to raise the age of marriage for girls from 18 to 21. The “Declarations of objects and reasons” section of the …
Over 1,000 out-of-school girls in Tanzania enroll in adult learning
By Jacob Mosenda Dar es Salaam. At least 1,200 of the 3,000 girls targeted for enrollment in this year’s school calendar through the Secondary Education Quality Improvement Program (Sequip) have already been enrolled, it has been revealed. In early 2020, the World Bank finally approved the $ 500 million education loan which was delayed following …
Testing shortages delay LFT procedures for UK jockeys
The British Horseracing Authority announced on January 1 that it will ‘temporarily postpone’ its requirement for anyone entering the weigh room in Britain to present a negative lateral flow test due to nationwide difficulty in get the rapid results tests. The requirement was due to go into effect at all racetracks in Britain on Wednesday, …
Nigerian Law School’s Financial Books Highlight 5 Billion Naira in Suspicious Transactions, Audit Report
The Council for Legal Education, the body that runs the Nigerian Law School, spent more than 5 billion naira in violation of financial regulations in 2019, the latest audit report from the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation (OAuGF). More than 3 billion naira is expected to be collected and turned over to …
Retired Brecksville High School teacher works with alumnus to create children’s book
Dave Lubinger first met Adam Slivka in the late 1990s, when Lubinger was a teacher at Brecksville High School and Slivka was a student in his American History class. Almost 20 years after their first meeting, the duo are working to spread the message of the importance of adopting shelter animals. Earlier this year they …