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Protesters held a march from Eastside Memorial to Allan earlier in the evening and jammed into the board room, waving signs.
Hundreds remained in two overflow spaces just outside the board auditorium and in an outdoor courtyard, where they could listen to a broadcast of the meeting.
Proposals to expand dual-language programs — including Chinese — and to outsource a program for students who have been removed from their schools for disciplinary reasons and pose a danger to themselves or others sailed through.
Carstarphen said there will be a greater level of consistency with who is removed from a campus for disciplinary reasons.
Hiring a charter operator to run a program at Travis and Lanier high schools for students struggling to graduate was expected to be approved as well.
The board approved creating a pre-kindergarten center at Dobie Middle School and converting Webb Middle School to a pre-kindergarten to eighth-grade campus. Sixth- grade students at Barrington, Brown and Walnut Creek elementaries will be reassigned to Dobie or Webb.
"While this isn't perfect... we are at a point where we have to do something. I'm going to support this," Trustee Christine Brister said.
Administrators recommended freezing priority transfers to the district's most overenrolled schools in 2012. Trustees were asked to forward the issue to the board policy committee and consider it for a future vote.
Priority transfers include students who have siblings attending the desired school at the same time on an approved transfer request, who have attended the highest two grades of a school that feeds into the requested school or who are among an ethnic or racial group that makes up more than 50 percent of their current sc...
Also, trustees approved designs for a multimillion-dollar performing arts center in the Mueller neighborhood.
Plans call for a 1,200-seat auditorium, a 225-seat black box theater, offices for the fine arts department and a 400-space parking garage.
I sacrifice precious hours of sleep to make sure folks all over the Tampa Bay area get all the news they need when the morning starts. I’m originally from the Bronx, but Florida’s been home for the last eight years. There are few things cooler to me than being on the forefront of information and connecting with the com...
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber will have to navigate around a new regulatory pothole in New York on an already bumpy road to its initial public offering of stock next year.
New York City is imposing a one-year moratorium on ride-hailing licenses in Uber’s largest U.S. market, raising the specter that other cities may adopt similar crackdowns as they try to ease traffic congestion.
If that were to happen, it would be more difficult for Uber to boost its revenue and reverse its history of uninterrupted losses. That, in turn, would affect the price that investors are willing to pay for Uber’s stock in the IPO that the San Francisco company plans to make next year.
“This can be viewed as a negative outcome for ride-hailing companies,” said Rohit Kulkarni, managing director of SharesPost, a firm that tracks privately held companies such as Uber.
Millions of people around the world now drive and ride through Uber’s apps, growth that was spurred in large part because the company hasn’t had to deal with the same strict regulations and government bureaucracy as taxi cabs.
New York’s moratorium on new ride-hailing licenses could give Uber and its rival, Lyft, more leverage to raise their prices if the restrictions cause demand to outstrip the supply of cars available to pick up riders, Kulkarni said.
Islamabad: Namira Saleem, who is training to become Pakistan’s first astronaut, has become the first Asian to skydive from a height higher than the Mount Everest.
Saleem skydived from a height of 29,480 feet. “That included one minute of free fall, meaning I had to open the parachute one minute after jumping from the aircraft," she told BBC Urdu. For a moment, she said, she felt as though she was “suspended" in the air.
She became the first Pakistani to reach the North and South poles in April 2007 and January 2008 respectively. Saleem said she did not need a lot of training for the jump and that she did it with only a few weeks’ of exercise.
Saleem decided to skydive when her dream of conquering the highest mountain in the world remained unfulfilled. “It was due to this unfulfilled fantasy that I decided to participate in the project of skydiving from a height of more than the Everest," she said.
She is now training to be the first Pakistani to go into space in 2009.
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A BUS service used by thousands of pensioners, workers and shoppers is facing the axe for the second time in 18 months.
The X27 Solent Shuttle between Southampton and Portsmouth was almost ditched in the summer of 2007 before a U-turn which reduced it to a two-hourly service.
Now the route is set to be scrapped because bus company Bluestar says it costs too much.
Operations director Andrew Wickham said the firm was losing £1,500 a week on the service and it would end on February 22.
However, Southampton Pensioners’ Forum and its sister group in Portsmouth are joining forces to fight the decision.
A protest is planned for the final day of the service. Pensioners are planning to travel on the X27 from Portsmouth to Southampton and stage a demonstration with placards and signs.
Mr Wickham said the company did not want to cut the service but had no choice.
He said: “We are the fourth operator to try to make this route work.
He said the route used to be supported by Southampton and Portsmouth local authorities but both stopped funding after Bluestar took over the contract four years ago.
He blamed the company’s heavy losses on the free bus passes for the over-60s, claiming it was not sufficiently reimbursed.
Asked what it would take for the company to keep the service going he said it would be necessary for the Government to look at the way bus operators are reimbursed for bus pass users or for the local authorities to reintroduce their subsidies.
A Southampton City Council spokesman said: “We used to jointly fund the service with Portsmouth but when it withdrew we decided we couldn’t make up the shortfall.
“Because of this Bluestar decided to cut the frequency of journeys from hourly to once every two hours and make it purely commercial.
The shuttle runs six return services a day on weekdays and five on Saturdays.
The Daily Echo understands that rival Black Velvet is currently looking at whether it could make a profit from the route.
Company Managing Director Vinod K Dasari said the electric vehicle plant was ready in Chennai and the first batch of vehicles would run in Gujarat by January 2019.
In terms of the second quarter performance, company CFO Gopal Mahadevan said Ashok Leyland would keep pace with the industry as far as growth was concerned.
The first set of electric vehicles manufactured by Hinduja Group flagship Ashok Leyland would be rolled out by January 2019, a top official said Tuesday.
"You will see the first set of electric vehicles actually running in Gujarat. It will be during 'Vibrant Gujarat' (global summit) in January", he said.
The Gujarat government is scheduled to hold the ninth edition of the Vibrant Gujarat Global Summit in Janaury 2019.
On plans to set up manufacturing facility in Andhra Pradesh, he said the plant was almost complete and the company was waiting for the government to lay the roads.
"The plant can assemble any type of buses, including electric vehicles", he said.
Declaring the financial performance for the quarter and half year ending September 30, 2018, Dasari said it was a record performance for Ashok Leyland in terms of posting sales, EBITDA and net profit".
"It is not a one off thing. Margins on EBITDA for others (competitors) had dropped. But our margins on EBITDA had gone up compared to same period of last year", he said.
He said the company has invested heavily in the Light Commercial vehicle segment to produce the next generation of LCVs, scheduled to hit the roads by 2020.
"In Defense (segment) we have won every single order we competed in. We won 31 tenders in the last three years", he said.
"For our market share to grow and by how much during the next quarters, we have to wait and watch. There may be some sort of a revival from the fourth quarter", he said.
To a query, he said, challenges would be the high steel prices and input prices that were going up.
"Ashok Leyland has been increasing prices. At the moment, we can actually see a full year growth of 12-15 per cent over last year, which is very very health growth", he said.
Despite Gov. Rick Perry's unwavering position, interfaith groups and Democratic state legislators rallied on the Capitol steps on Wednesday in support of expanding Medicaid to impoverished adults, as directed by federal health reform.
Interfaith groups and Democratic state legislators rallied on the Capitol steps Wednesday in support of expanding Medicaid to impoverished adults, as directed by federal health reform.
"We don't want more mothers dying. We don't want to lose more brothers," said Rosalie Tristan, a leader of Valley Interfaith. "We want you to do something. We don't want you to do nothing."
Gov. Rick Perry has repeatedly said Texas will not expand Medicaid when the federal mandate to purchase health insurance begins in 2014. Many Texas Republicans have argued that Medicaid expansion would overburden the state budget, endanger access to care for patients currently enrolled in the program and put the state ...
"It would be irresponsible to add more Texans and dump more taxpayer dollars into an unsustainable system that is broken and already consumes a quarter of our budget," Perry spokesman Lucy Nashed wrote in an email to the Tribune. "Gov. Perry continues to call for flexibility in the Medicaid system so we can implement p...
"The numbers are solid. This is economic development and social justice," said state Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, one of more than a dozen Democrat state legislators to speak in favor of Medicaid expansion at the rally. "This is health care that makes sense. Let's put politics aside and do what's right for...
State Rep. Lon Burnam, D-Fort Worth, said he believes the state can develop a bipartisan effort to expand Medicaid. In Arizona, for example, Republican Gov. Jan Brewer plans to approve Medicaid expansion on the condition that the state immediately pull the plug on the program if the federal government reduces its finan...
"There are people on both sides of the aisle who are too smart to lose billions and billions of dollars," Burnam told the crowd.
For some Texans, like Regina Gunter of the Allied Communities of Tarrant, the Medicaid expansion would mean a vast quality of life improvement. Gunter used to be on Medicaid to receive treatment for schizoaffective disorder, but a new job raised her income above the eligibility ceiling. The expansion would make Medicai...
The interfaith groups that led the rally have also supported a series of county resolutions in favor of Medicaid expansion. So far, they have worked with judges to pass resolutions in Travis and Dallas counties.
COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho (AP) - A northern Idaho deputy who was shot three times while trying to arrest a man earlier this week has been released from the hospital.
Bonner County Deputy Justin Penn was released from Kootenai Health Thursday afternoon.
Penn and a second deputy, Michael Gagnow, were injured in a shootout as they tried to arrest Adam Deacon Foster on two misdemeanor warrants of battery. Foster was also wounded in the shootout and is listed in fair condition.
Gagnow, who was also shot three times, is in serious condition at Kootenai Health. He’s expected to recover.
The shooting is being investigated by the Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office.
Thousands of tourists could soon have to pay as much as $10 to drive down world-famous Lombard Street in San Francisco. Sam Brock reports.
Thousands of tourists could soon have to pay as much as $10 to drive down world-famous Lombard Street in San Francisco.
Writer Kit de Waal seeks out a painting at the National Gallery showing Pilate washing his hands of his part in Christ’s death - and it brings back painful childhood memories.
The writer Kit de Waal grew up a Jehovah’s Witness, and it was not a happy experience for her. The painting at the National Gallery she has chosen for her Essay is the 16th-century Christ Before Pilate by the Master of Cappenberg, sometimes identified as Jan Baegert. It captures the moment when Pilate, the Roman prefec...
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Ramona Aviles Mercado, 81, of Waianae, a retired Kapiolani Hospital housekeeper, died in Pearl City. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by sons Randall and Matthew; daughter Delailah Kahler; brothers George Fraticelli, and Joseph and Raymond Aviles; sisters Mary Hosino, Louise Ray and Judy Ortner; 11 grandchildr...
CONSTRUCTION of the Olympic beach volleyball stadium at Rio's Copacabana beach has been frozen due to an administrative oversight.
Just 50 days away from the start of the Olympics, works have stalled because the company undertaking the project has not asked for "environmental authorisation".
Daniele Araujo, the press officer for the municipal environment office said: "The freeze period for the works depends on the time the company takes to present the requested documents."
The stadium is due to stand 21m tall -- the equivalent to a seven-story building -- and cover 62,000m2 on the Copacabana beach, which is a protected area, while it will have a 12,0000 capacity.
Rio mayor Eduardo Paes told Globo's G1 website that it was a minor issue.
He said: "We're always careful in areas such as the beach, which requires special attention."
Construction work on the stadium began several weeks ago but the structure suffered damage from high waves on Sunday.
Rio has seen unusually low seasonal temperatures -- it was just 8.6 degrees Celsius on Monday morning, the lowest temperature recorded this year, according to weather centre Alerta Rio.
Waves of up to 3.5-m are expected and beach users have been warned against swimming or taking part in water sports.
On Saturday a 6-m wave was recorded at the entrance to the Rio bay.
Several Olympic stadiums and arenas have been delayed, most notably the cycling velodrome which faces a race against time to be completed.
She spent long days retrieving water and food for her family after Maria. Now, she hunts for cash as new problems prop up for storm victims.
TOA ALTA, Puerto Rico — In the early days following Hurricane Maria, Michelle Rebollo would wake up each morning at 6 a.m., spend all day gathering food and fresh water for her family and return home past 8 p.m., exhausted.
Today, seven weeks after the storm, Rebollo, 45, still wakes up each morning at 6 a.m., drives more than an hour each way to Caguas to spend the day boxing and loading office supplies, and returns home past 8 p.m., exhausted.
Power and water recently returned to her house, though sporadically. But in many ways, Rebollo is still in survival mode. Her biggest obstacle today: A dire lack of cash to pay mounting bills and buy food, batteries and other supplies. Lacking clients, Rebollo was forced to shutter her travel agency and take odd jobs t...
She applied for federal disaster aid more than a month ago but is still waiting for a reply, said Rebollo, who lives with her son, daughter and three grandchildren.
Like thousands of others impacted by the storm, Rebollo has realized that life doesn’t normalize as soon as water is restored or the lights come back on. There are still bills to pay and the island’s economy was in deep malaise even before the storm hit. Prior to Maria, Puerto Rico’s unemployment hovered at nearly 10%,...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has distributed more than $125 million in individual assistance funds but many Puerto Ricans don't know to apply for disaster aid or lack the power or connectivity to do so. The Small Business Administration has awarded just 165 low-interest disaster loans totaling around $9 mill...
Groups such as the non-profit Foundation for Puerto Rico are trying to fill some of the gaps with programs for small business owners. The San Juan-based foundation has raised more than $2 million for disaster relief, provided 180 business and NGOs impacted by Maria with modern office facilities and launched an initiati...
The investment in small business owners is a fraction of what the federal government currently spends on disaster recovery overall, said Jon Borschow, the foundation’s chairman.
“The amount of money it’s going to take to get these businesses back on their feet doesn’t even amount to a day of what's being spent on federal government disaster efforts in Puerto Rico,” he said.
For now, however, many of those business owners are on their own.
Shortly after the storm, Rebollo would gather water from a PVC pipe jabbed into a mountain stream in nearby Naranjito to use for washing clothes and dishes. About a week ago, running water returned to her house, but for only a few hours a day. Today, three large tubs sit on her concrete patio, collecting rainwater that...

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