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Black History Month: Community Y and the role it plays in north-end Halifax
The Community YMCA has left its mark on the city's north end for more five decades. They say they've helped people with important life skills through education and sport.
#history #community #education #sport #Halifax #northend
https://globalnews.ca/news/11660673/black-history-month-community-ymca-gottingen-street/

As a parent it saddens me how we've essentially eliminated the idea that children can walk to school.

When I was a child in Winnipeg there was a school patrol at nearly every intersection within the walking zone of my school; as such if you lived in the walking zone you actually walked to school.

Now as a parent in Calgary my child's school has exactly 1 cross walk with patrols, the rest of the zone is 'at your own risk'. There is even tact acknowledgement of the risk for just arraigning for my child and one of her friends to be able walk to/from school together in the 2nd grade required both children's parents to meet with the principal for 'safety reasons'.

While safety is cited as the reason for eliminating patrols I suspect the real reasons are money and politics.

Walking isn't just good exercise for children but also teaches them that there are other modes of transport than driving and that you don't need to drive everywhere.

#education #walking #children #school #yyc #cdnpoli #abpoli

Muslim school near Birmingham faces backlash after lawn signs

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/02/10/lawn-sign-alabama-school

How one teacher is teaching his students empathy through engineering assignments

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2026/02/10/empathy-engineering

Brèves du 10février #Sénégal 🇸🇳 #éducation #Erythrée🇪🇷 #Mali 🇲🇱
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fym8WvVCa_k

#Senegal 🇸🇳#education #Mali🇲🇱 #Namibie🇳🇦
https://www.tiktok.com/@_allafrica/video/7605191250903354655

https://theconversation.com/why-swedens-young-people-are-so-good-at-english-264157. "Although #English has no official status in #Sweden, proficiency in English is a formal requirement to progress in #education, & often for #employment & social activity as well. The #Swedish #national #curriculum points out that 'the English #language surrounds us in our daily lives & is used in areas as diverse as #politics, education & #economics'."

So much for abolishing the Department of Education

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So Much for Abolishing the Department of Education

The Department of Education is getting a bigger budget, less than a year after President Donald Trump ordered the department’s closure.

Eric Boehm | 2.5.2026 3:30 PM

(Yuri Gripas – Pool via CNP / MEGA / Newscom / RSSIL / Newscom)

On the campaign trail in 2024, Donald Trump repeatedly pledged to close the Department of Education and return oversight of public schooling to the states.

Trump has a habit of throwing undercooked ideas around, but this wasn’t one of them. Abolishing the Department of Education was part of the Republican Party’s platform for the 2024 election, and was included in the goals of “Project 2025,” the Heritage Foundation’s blueprint for a conservative-controlled federal government in the wake of that election. That effort seemingly culminated with a March 2025 executive order signed by Trump that ordered Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take steps to close the department and return its functions to the states.

“I told Linda, ‘Linda, I hope you do a great job in putting yourself out of a job.’ I want her to put herself out of a job,” Trump said at one point.

A year later, McMahon’s job looks as secure as ever.

The omnibus appropriations bill that Trump signed on Tuesday to fund the federal government for the rest of the fiscal year directs $79 billion in taxpayer money to the Department of Education. That’s a larger budget (by about $200 million) than the department had in fiscal year 2025, and it is $12 billion more than the Trump administration requested in its budget proposal for the year.

That’s despite the fact that the department is in the process of offloading some of its programs to other parts of the federal government. In November, McMahon announced that the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education would be shifted to the Labor Department and the Indian Education Program would be moved to the Department of the Interior, among other things. Why does a smaller Department of Education require a bigger budget?

The bill Trump signed also includes language that prohibits parts of the department from being downsized or decentralized.

“None of the funds provided by this Act…may be used for any activity relating to implementing a reorganization that decentralizes, reduces the staffing level, or alters the responsibilities, structure, authority, or function” of the Education Department’s budget office, the law reads.

The act also mandates that the department “shall support staffing levels necessary to fulfill its statutory responsibilities including carrying out programs, projects, and activities” funded by Congress.

Elsewhere, it also stipulates that “none of the funds made available in this Act may be transferred to any department, agency, or instrumentality” other than the ones indicated by the appropriations. That would seem to preempt the Trump administration’s efforts to offload Education Department programs to other parts of the government.

None of that sounds like abolishing the Department of Education or returning its duties to the states. Indeed, even the attempt to shuffle the department’s responsibilities to other parts of the federal government may now be stymied.

In one sense, this is a story about the obvious failure of Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration to follow through on a major promise made during and after the 2024 election.

Continue/Read Original Article Here: So much for abolishing the Department of Education

#2024ElectionPromise #Education #Failure #LindaMcMahon #Reason #ReasonCom #Republicans #Trump #TrumpAdministration #UnitedStates

A #Moodle #AI Chat block with agent mode (from ByCS). It can have context specific to the page (in this case STACK). Send me a DM if you would like a teacher account to experiment with it.

#edtech #teaching #learning #education #maths #math #hardsums

The american dream, its call a dream because you have to be a sleep to believe it, George Carlin 🤣

I love the guy blunt truth humor way of saying truth

#owners #freedomofchoice #education #thebigclub #criticalthinking #georgecarlin #politics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nyvxt1svxso

Scottsdale school district to meet for vote on cuts

A Scottsdale Unified spokesperson said the district takes the Auditor General’s analysis seriously and has already begun taking action to address the risks. #schoolbudget #budgetcuts #education #arizona #schools #scottsdale #scottsdaleunified For more Local News from KPHO: For more YouTube Content:

https://fllics.com/en/video/scottsdale-school-district-to-meet-for-vote-on-cuts/

My final word on #MediaLiteracy #Education

( and #Culture and #Technology ) which I had #FunWriting

https://open.substack.com/pub/markharbinger/p/media-literacy-that-can-withstanditself

Défense de l’éducation à la vie affective et relationnelle, et à la sexualité

En février 2025, le Conseil supérieur de l’Éducation a adopté un programme d’EVAR(S) : Éducation à la Vie Affective et Relationnelle, et à la Sexualité (à partir du collège). Malgré cette obligation légale, moins de 15 % des élèves bénéficient de séances d’EVAR(S). Pour devenir réalité, le programme d’EVAR(S) doit être accompagné et disposer des moyens nécessaires

https://entreleslignesentrelesmots.wordpress.com/2025/12/22/introduction-au-livre-leducation-a-la-vie-affective-relationnelle-et-sexuelle-evars-sortir-des-polemiques-ouvrir-des-possibles/#comment-71978

#education

Parents urge province to create standard of care for Ontario students with diabetes
Parents whose children have Type 1 diabetes are urging the Ministry of Education to create a provincewide standard of care for diabetes in schools, so it doesn't vary from classroom to classroom, school to school, or board to board.

#education #healthcare #Ontario
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/parents-seek-standard-for-diabetic-students-9.7082537?cmp=rss

Parents urge province to create standard of care for Ontario students with diabetes
Parents whose children have Type 1 diabetes are urging the Ministry of Education to create a provincewide standard of care for diabetes in schools, so it doesn't vary from classroom to classroom, school to school, or board to board.

#education #healthcare #Ontario
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/parents-seek-standard-for-diabetic-students-9.7082537?cmp=rss

Parents urge province to create standard of care for Ontario students with diabetes
Parents whose children have Type 1 diabetes are urging the Ministry of Education to create a provincewide standard of care for diabetes in schools, so it doesn't vary from classroom to classroom, school to school, or board to board.

#education #healthcare #Ontario
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/parents-seek-standard-for-diabetic-students-9.7082537?cmp=rss

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

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Bird migration observation sites in Europe have documented #bumblebee queen ‘mass-migration events’ (usually in Springtime) indicating that bumblebees are able to migrate over larger distances than previously thought.
#bees

#nature
#environment
#science
#education
#biodiversity
#worldbeesanctuary
#trump #epstein
#wildlife #insects
#climate