Pennsylvania awards $1.5M in career, technical education grants
Gov. Tom Wolf recently announced dozens of competitive grants awarded to schools and career and technical centers for equipment upgrades...
Month: December 2021
Why taking penalties under pressure can be so tough
The penalty shootout in international football is arguably one of the most highly visible and high pressured sporting situations in...
California Department of Education Superintendent of Equity forced to resign
California Department of Education Superintendent of Equity Daniel Lee was forced to resign after state Assemblyman Kevin Kiley, R-Rocklin, sent...
Rhode Island ranks 18th in fiscal transparency
Rhode Island earned a score of 82 in a report on fiscal transparency from a national watchdog organization. Truth in...
Why planting tons of trees isn’t enough to solve climate change
Trees are symbols of hope, life and transformation. They’re also increasingly touted as a straightforward, relatively inexpensive, ready-for-prime-time solution to...
Some NYC Schools Shift to Remote Learning Option as COVID Surges Again
At one school in the Bronx, students will eat in their classrooms because there isn’t enough staff to supervise the...
Iowa could improve disclosure of CARES Act assistance spending
Iowa is neither an “exemplary state” at disclosing Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act assistance spending nor a state...
Warming climate leads to more bark beetles killing trees than drought alone
A team of researchers using Los Alamos National Laboratory’s supercomputers developed a model for projecting tree kills by bark beetles...
Gov. Greg Abbott sticks with hands-off approach to COVID-19 as omicron spreads
As other states are mobilizing to respond to the rapidly spreading omicron variant, Gov. Greg Abbott is not budging on...
Holidays and at-home tests mean omicron’s spread will be harder to track in Texas
As the omicron variant of COVID-19 continues to spread rapidly, a real-time snapshot of how the virus is impacting Texans...
