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What are teachers being taught? Bill calls for defining teaching terms
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What are teachers being taught? Bill calls for defining teaching terms

Republicans’ focus on education reform did not end with Gov. Kim Reynolds’ private school scholarship legislation: Lawmakers are now looking at how future educators at Iowa universities are learning to teach.

Lawmakers in a House Education subcommittee moved Wednesday to advance House File 7, a bill requiring Iowa’s three public universities to submit reports to the Legislature on how certain terms are used in courses within the schools’ colleges of education, and establishing an interim study committee to “evaluate practitioner preparation programs.”

The terms the bill would require Iowa’s colleges of education to define concepts ranging from “compulsory heterosexuality” to

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I Don’t Have an Estate Plan…Right?
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I Don’t Have an Estate Plan…Right?

Whether or not you have a written estate plan, you do have an estate plan. The laws of the state in which you reside will make decisions about your estate if you do not have a written plan.

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If you don’t have a written estate plan, it is essential to know what the intestacy laws of your state are so that you know what will happen to your assets if

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Physician Contracting 101 – Rickard & Associates
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Physician Contracting 101 – Rickard & Associates

Physician contracts are often complicated and have unique terms. We help our clients understand the terms and negotiate their contracts.

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Many of our clients are physicians who are negotiating or renegotiating their employment contracts with their employers. Sometimes these are with health systems, hospitals, or small physician offices.

We also have clients come to us with issues after they negotiated their own contracts.

Physician contracts are unique, as they have

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GOP states targeting diversity, equity efforts in higher education
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GOP states targeting diversity, equity efforts in higher education

Frustrated by college diversity initiatives he says are “fomenting radical and toxic divisions,” Texas state Rep. Carl Tepper set out to put an end to diversity, equity and inclusion of offices in higher education.

The freshman Republican lawmaker filed a bill to ban such offices. Three months later, he filed a new version of the legislation doing the same thing. The differences? Tepper switched the wording to align with a new model bill developed by the Manhattan Institute and Goldwater Institute, a pair of conservative think tanks based in New York and Arizona, respectively.







Diversity Bans States

Jay Devineni, right, a student at

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New bill could change Nevada graduation dress codes
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New bill could change Nevada graduation dress codes

LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — Nevada students are one step closer to being allowed to wear additional items at their graduation ceremonies.

Lawmakers have introduced Assembly Bill 73, which would permit students to wear traditional tribal regalia or recognized objects of religious or cultural significance.

However, the committee said this won’t replace traditional graduation garbs.

“The provisions of Section 1 of the bill allow pupils to wear [these] as adornments at a graduation ceremony,” committee counsel Asher Killian said during an education assembly meeting on Thursday. “The definition of adornment is something attached to, worn with, but not replacing the cap

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FACT CHECK: Did one Illinois school really get $5 billion for CRT?
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FACT CHECK: Did one Illinois school really get $5 billion for CRT?

(WMBD) — US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) had a lot to say about Illinois education spending during a congressional hearing Wednesday, but people aren’t sure her claims are accurate.

The House Oversight Committee held a hearing in which Comptroller General Gene Dodaro answered questions about the use of federal funding during the COVID-19 pandemic.

During the hearing, Greene claimed that an unnamed elementary school in Illinois had received a copious amount of money to be put toward teaching critical race theory.

“In Illinois, they received $5.1 billion at an elementary school there that used it for equity and diversity,”

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Reasons Not to Have an Estate Plan
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Reasons Not to Have an Estate Plan

We often hear from clients many reasons why they waited so long to draft their estate plans.

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We often hear the same reasons over and over as to why people don’t have an estate plan or haven’t gotten around to drafting an estate plan.

Some of the most frequent reasons and why they shouldn’t stop you from having an estate plan are:

  1. I don’t have enough money, property, etc. Estate
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Do You Worry About Your Parents’ Health?
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Do You Worry About Your Parents’ Health?

Many of our clients worry about their parents. Sometimes, they are concerned for their aging parents in regards to their healthcare.

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We often recommend that concerned clients have a discussion with their parents to make sure that they have all the right documents in place, to protect their wishes.

One incredibly important document that your parents should have in place is a Medical Durable Power of Attorney.

What is a

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