How Do Districts Plan to Use Their ESSA Block Grant Money?
Andrew Ujifusa Education Week, ESSA, Every Student Succeeds Act Many districts are about to get a big boost in funding for the most flexible piece of the Every Student Succeeds Act: the Student Support and Academic Enrichment Grants, better known as Title IV of the law. The program just got a big, $700 million boost…
Beat the Heat at Fontana’s Cooling Facilities
Fontana, Calif. – The City of Fontana offers five designated cooling facility locations throughout the community for the public to get relief from the heat this summer. Each facility has seating areas, air conditioning and drinking water for residents to use and enjoy. Fontana’s cooling facilities are located at the following centers: Cypress…
Cal State San Bernardino museum to host annual Ancient Egypt workshop for kids
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — The Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art (RAFFMA) at Cal State San Bernardino will host its annual two-day summer workshop, “Kids Discover Egypt,” for children ages 9-12. The first workshop will be on Monday, July 16, and Tuesday, July 17. A second workshop will take place Wednesday, July 18, and…
Chemist Receives Department of Energy Award
Early Career Research Program award will support Ming Lee Tang’s research on developing hybrid organic-inorganic materials RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — Ming Lee Tang, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of California, Riverside, has received a $750,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to continue her work on developing hybrid organic-inorganic materials…
What Black Parents Must Do This Summer
By Dr. Jawanza Kunjufu There is a 3 year gap between Black and White students. Many people love to believe it’s due to income, fatherlessness, educational attainment of the parent and lack of parental involvement. I believe a major reason for the gap is we continue to close schools for the summer as if we…
Missing Florida soldier found dead after intense search, police say
A soldier who disappeared earlier this week from a Florida National Guard base has been found dead, the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said Friday. The sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post that Specialist Cayln McLemore’s death is now being investigated as an “undetermined death investigation.” McLemore was found in a wooded area of Camp…
How Washington D.C.’s public schools went from success story to cautionary tale
By NNPA/ESSA WASHINGTON — As recently as a year ago, the public school system in the nation’s capital was being hailed as a shining example of successful urban education reform and a template for districts across the country. Now the situation in the District of Columbia could not be more different. After a series of…
Chicago Reader Now Black-Owned Thanks to Dorothy Leavell
By Stacy M. Brown (NNPA Newswire Contributor) Dorothy Leavell, the fiery and fearless chairman of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and publisher of the Chicago and Gary Crusader newspapers, announced that she has led a group in purchasing the “Chicago Reader.” Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it’s a historic purchase that…
Senate Public Safety Committee Approves Continuation of Bill Restricting Use of Force
By Manny Otiko | California Black Media After more than an hour of heated comments and testimony last week, the Senate Public Safety Committee voted to allow Assembly Bill 931 to proceed. AB 931 restricts police officers from using deadly force only when a life is at stake. Assemblymember Shirley Weber (D-San Diego), one…
AFGE Files Next Wave of Legal Action Challenging Trump Executive Orders
Lawsuit charges that Trump Executive Orders constitute executive overreach, violate separation of powers WASHINGTON, June 22, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) has filed a second lawsuit challenging two executive orders issued by President Trump that would curtail the rights of federal workers. [The American Federation of Government Employees, the largest…
Aguilar Announces Over $48 Million in Federal Funding For San Bernardino County Preschool Services
San Bernardino, CA— Today, Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-San Bernardino) announced that the San Bernardino County Preschool Services Department will receive over $48 million from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Head Start and Early Head Start Programs. The award of $48,821,894 will help fund early education programs for children from disadvantaged families…
Statement of The Sentencing Project on the Incarceration of Migrant Children
At this moment of painful developments regarding how migrant children are being treated by the United States government, The Sentencing Project lends its voice to the millions of Americans who are rising up to challenge these abhorrent policies. The punitive orientation of these policies to address social problems is an extension of historical practices that…
2020 Census Offers Big Benefit – $988 Per Person Counted, Expert Says
By Khalil Abdullah RALEIGH, N.C. – Like a massive Atlantic wave quietly swelling, then forcefully breaking on the shores of the Outer Banks, controversies about the 2020 Census are disrupting North Carolina’s status quo well before the final count results two years from now. “I feel an undercount coming,” said Octavia Rainey, “a national undercount,…
Joe Jackson, Father Of Michael Jackson, Dies At 89
Barry Anderson, BDO Contributing Writer Joe Jackson, the music manager and father of 11, died early Wednesday morning, TMZ reports. He was 89. Joe’s death eerily comes nearly nine years to the date that Michael Jackson died (June 25, 2009). A few days ago, we reported on the Jackson family patriarch had been battling terminal…
CDPH Releases Annual End of Life Option Act Report
SACRAMENTO – The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) today released the 2017 End of Life Option Act (Act) Annual Report. The Act, which became law June 9, 2016, allows qualified individuals diagnosed with a terminal disease to obtain and self-administer aid-in-dying drugs. The Act requires CDPH to provide annual reports, including information on the…
House Passes Rep. Bass Measure to Ensure Health Coverage For Foster Youth Until Age 26
WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 6, the SUPPORT for Patients and Communities Act of 2018, which included legislation drafted by Rep. Karen Bass (D-Calif.) to clarify that states do not have the option to deny health coverage to former foster youth who aged out of the foster care system in…
Recent Celebrity Deaths Can Be An Opportunity to Help Others Manage Isolation and Suicidal Feelings, Mental Health Experts Say
Riverside County, CA.—In the wake of recent high-profile celebrity suicides, behavioral health experts at Riverside University Health System are encouraging community members to educate themselves about resources available to those struggling with feelings of isolation and hopelessness. “The deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain provide all of us with an opportunity to have a…
Patrice A. Harris, MD, wins office of AMA president-elect
Brendan Murphy AMA Wire Atlanta psychiatrist Patrice A. Harris will take the helm of American Medical Association after being elected president Tuesday at the Annual Meeting of the AMA House of Delegates in Chicago. Harris, who is the chief health officer for Fulton County, becomes the first African-American woman to hold the office. Following a…
Moms, Help is on the Way — Black Doula Pens Essential Guide to Postpartum Support
Navigating Body, Baby, Breastfeeding & Support Naima Beckles, Childbirth Educator, Birth & Postpartum Doula New York, NY — Four years ago, Naima Beckles and Michele Arrieta, joined forces and started, For Your Birth, a doula agency based in Harlem. With increase postpartum complications, guilt, concerns and letters from mothers, For Your Birth, recently created, The…
Study Confirms Denser Breasts Are More Prone to Cancer
By Serena Gordon HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, June 26, 2018 (HealthDay News) — Using automated breast density measurements, Norwegian researchers were able to more precisely confirm that women with dense breasts have a higher risk of breast cancer. The study included more than 100,000 women and more than 300,000 screening exams. “We found that screening examinations…
‘Grey’s Anatomy’s’ Jesse Williams Reflects on Sarah Drew’s Exit: ‘It’s Unfortunate’ (Exclusive)
By Philiana Ng One month after Grey’s Anatomy said goodbye to Sarah Drew, star Jesse Williams is looking back on her emotional final day. In the Grey’s season 14 finale that aired on May 17, Drew’s April revealed she was leaving Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital as an attending trauma surgeon for a new career helping…
Meek Mill Denied New Trial By Same Judge
By CLAUDIA LAUER, Associated Press PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia judge denied rapper Meek Mill’s petition for a new trial in his decade-old drug and gun convictions Monday despite support for the request by the district attorney’s office. Mill’s attorneys had asked for a new trial based on credibility issues with former Philadelphia police officer…
UCC leadership sickened, angered by Supreme Court ruling upholding Muslim travel ban
Written by Connie Larkman The national leadership of the United Church of Christ is condemning the U.S. Supreme Court decision that upholds President Trump’s September travel ban, which restricts citizens from predominantly Muslim countries from traveling to this country. The deeply divided court, ruling 5-4 on Trump v Hawai’i, reversed a series of lower court…