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Sask. school division says province ‘skews the numbers’ on education funding

Education funding has been a highly debated topic in Saskatchewan, and one school division took the time to fact-check the province’s claims, addressing their repeated message of “record funding.”

Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools (GSCS) sent a message to parents and caregivers saying they’ve been reviewing the provincial funding since it was announced in March.


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“Our initial optimism faded when faced with the reality that school divisions in Saskatchewan—and therefore the students and families we serve—would not benefit from the province’s good financial fortune,” read the letter.

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Premier Scott Moe, education minister promises more funding following calls from teachers’ federation

Premier Scott Moe as well as the province’s education minister announced the possibility of increased funding for school divisions after defending their absence from an education rally over the weekend.

“Your voices are being heard, not just Saturday but the lead up to that as well,” Moe told reporters, referring to the rally, following the question period on Monday.

Education minister Dustin Duncan said the government will be providing more funding for higher than predicted enrollment in some Saskatchewan schools.

“As the premier indicated, this year, we know that the enrollment issues that school divisions are facing from last year

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DeSantis catches strays at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. Here’s what Biden said

During a White House Correspondents’ Dinner speech Saturday night, President Joe Biden focused on press freedoms and Americans being detained abroad — while also sprinkling in jokes regarding the current political landscape.

Biden quipped about former President Donald Trump’s legal troubles and the firing of CNN’s Don Lemon and Fox News’ Tucker Carlson. But another prominent Floridian, too, caught strays Saturday night: Gov. Ron DeSantis.

“I had a lot of Ron DeSantis jokes ready, but Mickey Mouse beat the hell out of me and got there first,” Biden said.

“After [DeSantis’] re-election as governor, he was asked if he had

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The Walt Disney Company called Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis

The Walt Disney Company is suing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to a new federal filing.

Action News Jax is digging through that paperwork right now.

According to the New York Timesthe company claimed a “targeted campaign of government retaliation,” which it said stemmed from its criticism of a contentious state education law.

The suit states, “It is a clear violation of Disney’s federal constitutional rights—under the Contracts Clause, the Taking Clause, the Due Process Clause, and the First Amendment—for the State to inflict a concerted campaign of retaliation because the Company expressed an opinion with which the government

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Higher Education Free Speech Commitments Are Empty Platitudes

Last month, in a rare moment of good news in higher education, the administration of Cornell University rejected an unanimous student government resolution to mandate “trigger warnings” for a wide range of sensitive classroom materials and to permit students to “opt out” of controversial course content without penalty. In a brief but incisive statement, Cornell President Martha Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff wrote, “We cannot accept this resolution, as the actions it recommends would infringe on” and “unacceptably restrict the academic freedom of our community.”

Perhaps more significantly, Cornell’s leaders reasoned, “learning to engage with difficult and challenging ideas is

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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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Alabama early education secretary resigns as Gov. Ivey decries ‘woke’ resource book



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The head of early childhood education in Alabama has been ousted after Gov. Kay Ivey learned of “woke concepts” in a resource book for pre-K teachers, officials said.

Barbara Cooper, secretary of the Alabama Department of Early Childhood Education (ADECE), resigned after Ivey asked her to stop the use of the book, according to a Friday news release from Ivey’s office. The governor made the decision to “have a change in leadership” in the department.

The release says the manual argues that there are “larger systemic forces that perpetuate systems of White privilege” and that “the United States

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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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