New York: Firebrand Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders on Saturday with a massive rally that marked the septuagenarian’s return to the campaign trail following a heart attack earlier this month. “I call him ‘tio Bernie’,” Ocasio-Cortez, 30, said at the rally in her Queens, New York…
Eleven young heads turned toward the explosive noise coming from the side of the school lunchroom. A young girl in jeans and white shoes moved her hands toward her ears. A cafeteria worker ducked behind the counter. White smoke lingered. It took everyone a moment to process the sound they…
With 25,000 Chicago public school teachers picketing this week and likely into next, the heat is on Mayor Lori Lightfoot to negotiate a resolution. ASSOCIATED PRESS By Sara Burnett CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot swept into office this spring declaring it “a new day” for the nation’s third-largest city….
Chicago Teachers Union and city negotiators returned to the bargaining table Sunday after both sides noted progress in Saturday’s talks. Still, the prospect of students returning to classes Monday seemed unlikely with Mayor Lori Lightfoot saying she’d be “surprised” if a deal can be hammered out in time for classes…
Matt Smyth’s secret was revealed his senior year of high school with a knock on the front door of his family’s Fallbrook, Calif., home. Two plainclothes sheriff’s detectives were investigating reports that Smyth’s former assistant scoutmaster — the one who’d driven kids to Boy Scout meetings, chaperoned camp outs and…
A frequent criticism of the American educational system is that “they just don’t teach civics anymore.” Actually they do, but not in a way that necessarily makes it memorable for the student. According to a 2017 Economist article, “(Civics) by the 1980s had been phased out. Parents and politicians became…
Facebook Dating, which lives within the Facebook mobile app in a separate tab (it’s not available on the Facebook desktop site), promises to connect singles who opt into the service by algorithmically matching them according to geography and shared “interests, events, and groups”; users have the option of “unlocking” certain…
Jake Wascher, 21, of San Diego, is now facing years of state enforced psychiatric rehabilitation inside Whiting Forensic Hospital, a maximum-security institute for people acquitted of crimes on the basis of mental disease A former drama student at the University of Hartford accused of stabbing two of his fellow students…
By CHRISTY ARMSTRONG LuAnn Carey, an agriculture teacher at Bradley Central High School, has gone from working on her family’s farm to teaching students about careers in farming. Though she has a background in agriculture, she did not originally think she would ever become an educator. “It just came naturally…
E-cigarettes in the US are in the crosshairs. The Trump administration is preparing to ban flavored e-cigarettes. Juul, the largest e-cigarette retailer in the US, announced last week that it would no longer advertise directly to consumers in the US, and Walmart recently declared that it will stop selling e-cigarettes….
