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Muslim groups sue Quebec government over prayer room ban in schools

Quebec Muslim groups are taking the provincial government to court over its recently enacted prayer room ban in public schools, arguing that the order is discriminatory and violates the Charter rights to freedom of religion and association.

Five Muslim organizations filed their case this week in Quebec Superior Court, seeking a judicial review of the ban and to have it declared unconstitutional. The groups are also seeking a judgment on how secularism and the notion of religious neutrality are interpreted by the government.

“The plaintiffs request that a declaratory judgment concerning the interpretation to be given to the principles of

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Tentative agreements reached with thousands of NS educational support workers

Nova Scotia’s education minister says regional centers for education across the province and the French language school board have reached a tentative agreement with CUPE for educational support staff, staving off a possible strike by thousands of school support workers.

Minister Becky Druhan said in an interview with the CBC’s Information Morning on Wednesday that the next step is for CUPE members to see the deal and vote on it.

“We hope all along was that the parties would achieve a deal without disruption to learning, and folks at the table worked really hard on this,” he said.

The province

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Alabama Gov. replaced director of ECE over book

MONTGOMERY, Ala. –

Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Friday announced she was replacing her director of early childhood education over the use of a teacher training book, written by a nationally recognized education group, that the Republican governor denounced as teaching “woke concepts” because of language about inclusion and structural racism.

Barbara Cooper was forced out as head of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education after Ivey expressed concern over the distribution of the book to state-run pre-kindergartens.

Ivey spokesperson Gina Maiola identified the book as the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) Developmentally Appropriate Practice

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Georgian College signs Memorandum of Understanding to expand education in Vietnam

Georgian College and Khoi Nguyen Investment Group (KNI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding with an interest in establishing an international college in Vietnam.

Georgian College President Kevin Weaver said they would work with industry partners to develop programs tailored to meet the needs of the labor market in Vietnam.

“That’s really what we’re looking for to help KNI with, is as they establish this international college, how do we help them to work with our industry partners and bring some programming that’s relevant to them and relevant to their labor market,” Weaver said Wednesday.

Some of the KNI and Georgian

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No explosive devices found, police said

About 40 school districts in Indiana canceled in-person classes Friday after receiving emails threatening the use of explosives on several campuses.

No suspicious or explosive devices were found in any Indiana schools, according to a news release from the Indiana State Police. The investigation into the threat’s origin is ongoing, police said. Friday’s threats to Indiana schools were just the latest in an ongoing trend of non-credible threats towards schools that’s becoming more common across the country, said Kenneth Trump, president of National School Safety and Security Services, a Cleveland-based national consulting firm. this week multiple school districts in Illinois

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Iqaluit education authority lambastes Nunavut gov’t for blocking its support of workers from schools

The Iqaluit District Education Authority says Nunavut’s Department of Education is barring some support workers from helping students in need.

The education authority says it identified 28 students who need extra help for emotional and behavioral challenges. A news release Wednesday from administrator Lynda Gunn said the authority secured federal funding to contract people to help support those students, but the Department of Education is now barring those people from entering schools.

“The [department] issued an order to the participating school’s administrators that they were to immediately disallow contractors into the schools without their express written consents,” the education authority

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Afghanistan school year starts without millions of teenage girls | Education News

Afghanistan’s schools have reopened for the new academic year, but hundreds of thousands of teenage girls remain barred from attending classes as Taliban authorities ban their attendance at secondary schools.

Education Minister Habibullah Agha confirmed in a statement that schools up to grade six “will currently be open for girls”, effectively retaining a ban on high school for female students.

Madrassas, or Islamic schools, are the only education centers open for girls of all ages. Yalda, a ninth grader in Kabul, told Al Jazeera that the madrassa was good for enhancing her knowledge of religion.

But “the madrassa cannot help

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Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS)

HEDIS is a set of performance measures that are used to compare health plan performance and measure the quality of health plans. These measures were created by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). About 90% of health plans use HEDIS as a standard to measure the performance of their plan. The data is tracked from year to year to measure the performance of the health plan and thus provide information regarding the population served.

The data that is collected is used to monitor the health of the general population, evaluate treatment outcomes, etc., and the data is collected

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