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LANSING, Mich - A bill discussed but not yet introduced in the Michigan House would require homeschooling families and parents of private school students to register with their local district. Mixed messages from lawmakers mean it’s uncertain what a registry would do and what regulations or steps might follow a law to require registration.
Media reports say that Rep. Kimberly Edwards, D-Eastpointe, will be the sponsor. The bill, she said, will only require parents to check a box to inform their local district that their child is being homeschooled. “It’s not saying it’s going to track it,” Edwards, said, as quoted by Fox-47 News.
“It’s not going to alert [Child Protective Services] to come to your home. It’s not going to do any of that,” Edwards continued. ”This legislation’s only to require individuals who are homeschooling or sending their kids to private school to register in their school district, letting individuals know their child exists and (is) being homeschooled or in a private school,” she said. Click here to read more.
WASHINGTON D.C. - Democratic socialist Senator Bernie Sanders and United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain have joined forces to push a “32-hour workweek with no loss in pay.” They essentially want a four-day work week, which the UAW demanded (but didn’t get) after striking against the Big Three automakers. Now the Senator has introduced legislation to the same effect. Yet neither Sanders nor his union ally understand the damage they’ll do the workers they claim to champion—and both are being hypocritical.
The dynamic duo blame “intense opposition from corporate America” and greed for the United States not having this policy in place already. Yet both Sanders and Fain are apparently greedy themselves, since they oversee workplaces that violate the very policy they want to mandate nationwide. Click here to read more.
DENVER, COL - Sofia Guzman and her mother left Colombia six years ago in search of a better life. They found it in Denver, Colorado. Her family had owned a business in South America but was repeatedly harassed by government goons who demanded bribes and threatened to harm Guzman if her family didn’t pay. “My mother didn’t want me to grow up in that kind of environment,” she told the Washington Examiner. “It was toxic.”
The Guzmans sought asylum and went through the proper channels to become legal immigrants. In school, Guzman flourished. She went from struggling in English language development classes to getting straight A’s. Her goal is to go into real estate eventually, an opportunity she knows she wouldn’t have had in Colombia. Click here to read more.
CHICAGO, IL - At first glance, the Chicago Teachers Union’s demand for at least two more days off work for Chicago Public Schools teachers may seem reasonable.
Except CTU’s contract already provides extraordinary opportunities for time off and leave from work.
Currently, teachers can take at least 43 days off during the year and can apply for at least 15 different types of paid or unpaid leave. But that’s not enough for CTU.
Leaked documents show the union is demanding at least two more days off each year. It also wants to add or extend at least nine forms of leave.
Not only is such extensive time off practically unheard of in the private sector, but it also means additional days students within CPS won’t have their regular teachers in attendance. Click here to read more.
LONDON - Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca has admitted that its Covid-19 vaccine can cause a rare side effect known as Thrombosis with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome' (TTS), according to a report by the London-based newspaper The Telegraph. The admission was made in court documents for the first time since rolling out of the vaccine. The pharmaceutical company, which developed the vaccine in partnership with the University of Oxford, is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging that their vaccine has resulted in fatalities and serious injuries among recipients. Click here to read more.
