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Watch VideoThe Senate is scheduled to vote Thursday on a resolution blocking President Donald Trump's emergency declaration. |
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's already said he expects the upper chamber to pass the measure. |
The US Senate voted Thursday to overturn President Trump's national emergency declaration. |
(AP) — A proposed overhaul of the Detroit City Charter has won approval from the city's voters. |
With all precincts reporting from Tuesday's election, the proposal passed 58 percent to 42 percent. |
The new charter includes strict ethics rules as well as a department to investigate corruption, fraud and waste. It creates the Office of Inspector General to investigate such issues. |
Calls for a new charter follow scandals involving former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his administration. |
The city's charter revision commission also recommended that Detroit voters begin electing most council members by district instead of at-large. |
The vote totals with all 599 precincts reporting was 32,848 yes and 24,094 no. |
In a side road in a small town in the Bekaa Valley, Majid and Yazan are hard at work. They are brothers aged nine and 11. Their day started in darkness, getting up at 4am, a bit scared to be going out before dawn, to get to their jobs in a local bakery. |
The tiny bakery turns out flatbreads for local restaurants. The boys work alongside two grown men, also refugees. The boys get $3 a day between them. But these meagre earnings are vital for their family to survive after fleeing the war in Syria. |
Both brothers work alongside two grown men who are also refugees in Bekaa Valley. |
Covered in flour and dust, the brothers clean the industrial mixing bowl, sweep the floors, and pile the flatbreads neatly when they come off the hotplate. They do this sometimes until 10 o'clock at night. |
When the school bus goes past, carrying some refugees fortunate to be able to go to a local school, the boys stare out in sadness. 'All we want is to go with them' one of them tells us. 'I want to go to school, so someday I can become a teacher.' His brother wants to be an engineer. When they remember their life in Syr... |
I have two sons, one just a little older than Majid - but living a life a world away. It is heartbreaking to see that this is the reality of the lives of the children of the Syrian war. They've escaped the immediate danger of conflict - but their childhoods are slipping away in its wake. |
It's children like these CAFOD and partners CARITAS Lebanon are desperately trying to support. Having met Majid and Yazan, they're now trying to work out how they can help the family and find a way to get the boys some schooling. |
It can be done. Lebanon has opened some of its schools for a 'second shift' to accommodate the hundreds of refugee children in the area. The Lebanese children use the school buildings in the afternoons - the Syrian children have to go very early in the morning - packing out the classrooms to capacity. CAFOD is helping ... |
This school used to teach 60 Lebanese children but now accommodates. hundreds of refugee children. |
It's a massive logistical challenge. Many of the refugee families are in makeshift camps, or staying in poor quality rented accommodation and sometimes hard to reach. But CAFOD knows that after the basics of life support, the most vital thing the children of Syria need is to get some schooling. Whenever the terrible wa... |
When the war in Syria began - there were dire warnings of a lost generation of its children. As the conflict grinds on into its eighth year - and the world is distracted by other disasters - the needs of that generation grow ever more desperate. |
CAFOD is helping as many as they can to reclaim some of those childhoods and their right to an education. |
It's simply what every parent would want. And for Majid and Yazan, who long to return to their homes one day - it could make the world of difference. |
What is the UN Resident Coordinator System? |
International Women’s Day is a time to reflect on progress made, to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of their countries and communities. |
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Spending on college overall has fallen since the recession. That, along with the Illinois requirement to fix tuition for four years, makes budgeting difficult for state universities. |
As the Illinois Truth-in-Tuition law reaches its 10th year, experts say it helps families plan for college, but it makes it harder for public colleges to be strategic. |
The law allows Illinois undergraduate students at public universities to attend school for four years without tuition increases. An amendment passed in 2010 extended it to six years, though allowing the school to increase tuition rates for fifth or sixth year students, as long as the price matches that of the students ... |
Although the law provides some stability to students, it has hurt universities, says Allan Karnes, accounting professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale and member of the Illinois Board of Higher Education. |
For example, when a university needs to increase tuition due to rising costs, inflation or decreasing state support, the incoming class has to shoulder the entire increase because their counterparts cannot pay higher fees. |
‘It appears we’re raising tuition much more than we actually are, and so that cast us in a bad light,” Karnes says. |
Moreover, the binding law requires public universities to guess what their budget will be for the next couple of years, says Thomas Hardy, executive director for media relations at the University of Illinois. |
He adds that this comes at a time of decreasing state support. Since 2002, the University of Illinois has lost about $1 billion in spending authority, leading to tuition hikes and cuts. For example, the university shut down its Institute of Aviation in July 2011. |
Having to predict future costs is also difficult, says Kinga Mauger, the bursar at Northern Illinois University. For example, the school did not expect the recession. Although the school faces rising costs, Mauger says it doesn’t want to simply ask incoming students to shoulder the burden. As a result, budgeting is far... |
A new survey of 800 undergraduates and parents nationwide from student loan company Sallie Mae found that since 2010 and the recession, parents have paid less for college, relying more on loans, grants and scholarships. Overall, high and low-income families have paid less for college since 2010, but middle-income famil... |
Beyond Illinois, a federal Truth in Tuition proposal has been sent to a House committee. |
It requires schools to give students a multi-year fee schedule upon admission, but allows for changes. |
Karnes of the Illinois State Board of Education says lawmakers are not in the best position to draft tuition policies. |
Alan Yu is a WBEZ metro desk intern. Follow him @Alan_Yu039. |
“Something is different about Sabrina.” Netflix just released a new trailer for the continuation of the first season (aka part two) of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina. |
Based on the Archie Comics’ character, the supernatural series centers on Sabrina Spellman (Kiernan Shipka), a sophomore at Baxter High in Greendale (a town near Riverdale), who is half-mortal and half-witch. The cast also includes Ross Lynch, Lucy Davis, Miranda Otto, Chance Perdomo, Jaz Sinclair, Michelle Gomez, Gavi... |
Part two of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina premieres on Netflix on April 5th. |
Double double boys and trouble. The trailer has arrived for Part 2 of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, launching globally April 5, Only on Netflix. |
What do you think? Are you a fan of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina? Will you watch the new episodes? |
I can’t wait..best new show on TV on any ‘platform’. The one show that doesn’t pull any punches. This looks even better than last season!!! |
I know trailers are deceiving but this looks so good! Can’t wait to see what happens! |
Yes, I am looking forward to the new season of Sabrina. |
EASTLAKE, Ohio -- Police are investigating a fatal Sunday night car accident. |
Police told FOX 8 a man was killed in a single car accident off of Lakeshore Boulevard in Eastlake. |
Lakeshore Boulevard has been reopened between Erie and Reeves Roads. |
Public education in New York and around the country is undergoing tremendous change as parents and citizens demand more performance, accountability and results. And nowhere has the subject been more controversial than on Long Island. |
The education system is deeply entrenched, localized, unionized and personal to the families of the state -- as it should be. Changing our education system leads to disruption and misunderstanding but also offers New York the opportunity to grow. |
Unfortunately, the headlines have too often been about the proposed teacher evaluations and conflicts with teachers unions and the education bureaucracy. Lost in this noise have been the specific proposals, which seek to ensure we have the best teachers and to establish statewide standards. |
- make it easier for school districts to remove persistently bad or failing teachers. |
Not surprisingly, the teachers unions and educational bureaucracy oppose parts of my plan. |
The lightning rod has become the teacher evaluation process, which would assess teachers and schools statewide. The acceptance and implementation of an evaluation system predates my administration. Teacher evaluations are being instituted in the vast majority of states across the country as part of President Barack Oba... |
Virtually everyone agrees that teacher evaluations are positive and necessary. Virtually everyone also agrees that New York's teacher evaluation system is not accurate and is skewed in its construction to provide favorable results for teachers. In New York last year, about 99 percent of the teachers were rated effectiv... |
A review of the states implementing evaluations shows two central components to conduct and compare teacher evaluations: in-class observation and growth in student performance on assessments, including standardized tests. While different states weigh and conduct the components differently, they, like New York, tie teac... |
I believe both components -- in-class observation and growth in student performance -- are necessary and that use of the state test is needed to provide a statewide basis of comparison. Suffolk County will want to know how its teachers and schools compare to those in Westchester County. Towns will want to be able to co... |
Unfortunately, "testing" is itself a contentious issue and the testing component in teacher evaluations has been conflated with the student testing issue. I believe students are tested too often, creating undue anxiety and stressing the entire system. Many parents share this view. I have signed a law reducing the signi... |
At the same time, I believe that a test component should be part of the teacher evaluation and have proposed that testing comprise 50 percent of the evaluation. The State Department of Education suggests 40 percent. Still, teachers and administrators prefer that the emphasis be on classroom observation as opposed to te... |
There is no magic formula for the perfect teacher evaluation system today. It is a work in progress that will no doubt be refined as time goes on. While teacher evaluation is the most political issue, it is not necessarily the most dramatic or impactful education reform I have proposed this year. |
Transforming failing schools, reforming tenure, expediting removal of underperforming teachers, providing performance bonuses, adding wraparound services to create Community Schools and reducing testing, are all reforms that have the potential to dramatically improve our system. While change is difficult, it is also th... |
Andrew M. Cuomo is governor of New York. |
Friends, it would have to happen on Easter Sunday, wouldn’t it, that the 4,000th American soldier would die in Iraq. Play me that crazy preacher again, will you, about how maybe God, in all his infinite wisdom, may not exactly be blessing America these days. Is anyone surprised? |
4,000 dead. Unofficial estimates are that there may be up to 100,000 wounded, injured, or mentally ruined by this war. And there could be up to a million Iraqi dead. We will pay the consequences of this for a long, long time. God will keep blessing America. |
I would like every American to see Cheney flip the virtual bird at the them, the American people. Click here and pass it around. Then ask yourself why we haven’t risen up and thrown him and his puppet out of the White House. |
The Democrats have had the power to literally pull the plug on this war for the past 15 months — and they have refused to do so. What are we to do about that? Continue to sink into our despair? Or get creative? Real creative. I know there are many of you reading this who have the chutzpah and ingenuity to confront your... |
Cheney spent Wednesday, the 5th anniversary of the war, not mourning the dead he killed, but fishing off the Sultan of Oman’s royal yacht. So? Ask your favorite Republican what they think of that. |
The Founding Fathers would never have uttered the presumptuous words, “God Bless America.” That, to them, sounded like a command instead of a request, and one doesn’t command God, even if they are America. In fact, they were worried God would punish America. During the Revolutionary War, George Washington feared that G... |
I see that Frontline on PBS this week has a documentary called “Bush’s War.” That’s what I’ve been calling it for a long time. It’s not the “Iraq War.” Iraq did nothing. Iraq didn’t plan 9/11. It didn’t have weapons of mass destruction. It DID have movie theaters and bars and women wearing what they wanted and a signif... |
But that’s all gone now. Show a movie and you’ll be shot in the head. Over a hundred women have been randomly executed for not wearing a scarf. I’m happy, as a blessed American, that I had a hand in all this. I just paid my taxes, so that means I helped to pay for this freedom we’ve brought to Baghdad. So? Will God ble... |
God bless all of you in this Easter Week as we begin the 6th year of Bush’s War. |
RICHMOND, Va. -- If Civil War history is to be displayed across the American South, it must be portrayed fairly and accurately with an open dialogue about racial disparities in the region, the former mayor of New Orleans told Richmond’s mayor Tuesday. |
Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu and Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney discussed the symbolism of monuments honoring Confederate figures at a forum attended by several dozen people at the Virginia Museum of History and Culture. |
Stoney, who is African-American, and Landrieu, who is white, said it’s important for local leaders to tackle social issues such as racism and to chart a path toward dismantling inequities. |
When he became mayor of New Orleans in 2010, Landrieu inherited a city that had been struck by Hurricane Katrina five years earlier and was dealing with the BP oil spill, which started the previous month. Amid the city’s restoration process, he was faced with the unseemly racial past of the South, and the question of w... |
In May 2017, Landrieu delivered a speech on the removal of four Confederate monuments in New Orleans. |
In his speech two years ago and at Tuesday’s forum, Landrieu agreed with Stoney that the Confederate monuments send the wrong message and ignore the other side of the history of the South. |
“It immediately begs the question — why are there no slave ship monuments, no prominent markers on public land to remember the lynchings or the slave blocks; nothing to remember this long chapter of our lives of the pain, of sacrifice, of shame — all of it happening on the soil of New Orleans,” Landrieu said in 2017. |
In recent years, Richmond residents and officials have had an ongoing, polarized debate about whether to remove Confederate monuments in the city that was once the Confederate capital. |
Stoney said keeping reminders of the Confederacy only increases the economic and racial inequities that exist in Richmond. |
Stoney said a wide wealth disparity exists in the city. Booming areas like Carytown and the Fan District are generally more affluent, while families in neighborhoods like Jackson Ward struggle to make rent. |
“We all have a different idea of what quality of life is, but we don’t see it across the border,” Stoney said. |
As Richmond’s shameful racial history seems to bleed into the present, Stoney said Confederate monuments do not help in bringing an already-divided Richmond together. |
Stoney and Landrieu said they both agree that the way to advance is to create an open and honest dialogue and to represent the South’s history accurately and inclusively. |
“If you’re going to curate our history, curate all of it, and curate it honestly,” Landrieu said. |
Stoney said political participation is a crucial part of paving the road to dismantling racial and social inequities. |
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The second day of classes at Prospect High School ended suddenly Wednesday when a fire spewing thick black smoke erupted in the fieldhouse and forced the evacuation of nearly 1,650 students. |
No one was hurt in the 11 a.m. blaze, which caused structural damage that could take up to two months to repair. Mt. Prospect Fire Chief Ed Cavello said the cause had not been determined. |
Classes will resume Thursday, school officials said. |
The fire ignited in foam, vinyl-covered mats used by pole vaulters and high jumpers, Principal Michael Stevens said. The mats are stored in a loft area of the fieldhouse. |
"Once that stuff ignites, it smolders and releases a lot of heavy, dense and toxic fumes," Stevens said. "We feel very thankful no one was hurt." |
A class of students had just left the fieldhouse, on the south end of the building, when the blaze began. One of those students saw smoke and alerted a staff member. |
Once the fire alarm was pulled, students and teachers filed out of the building "as quick as I've ever seen," Stevens said. |
Firefighters extinguished the blaze within 15 minutes. But to ventilate the building and allow smoke and gases to escape, they cut a hole in the roof. |
The scoreboard and the sound system also appeared to be damaged. Heat from the blaze may have warped some support beams in the fieldhouse. |
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