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HEARTS BUTTE — Thursday, Aug. 22, 2024, was supposed to be the first day of the school year for the Heart Butte School District.Instead, teachers and staff sat at tables outside preparing school supplies for students who will be in remote learning mode for the new semester.”The reason we have to move to a hybrid model of distance learning is because we have infrastructure challenges with not only our water system but our fire system,” explained Marcy Covell, superintendent of Heart Butte School District.The hybrid learning model will include online learning via Chromebooks and in-person instruction, especially for elementary school…
Google is developing a new desktop app called Essentials that packages up several Google services, such as Messages and Photos, and includes links to download many other services. The app will be included in many new Windows laptops, with the first one being from HP.According to Google's announcement, the Essentials app will let you “discover and install many of Google's best services,” including browsing Google Photos and sending and receiving Google Messages within the app. While the full list of apps has yet to be announced, Google's announcement art shows off icons for Google Sheets, Google Drive, Nearby Share, and…
The way most players improve year over year is usually due to physical changes, and Thomas worked closely with therapists and sports psychologists during the 2023 offseason. “Through the fears, doubts and worries, I've learned to love myself,” Thomas said. “I've also done a lot of unapologetically personal work. I've learned to live in the moment and not obsess about making this game. It's taken a lot of hard work. I'm not perfect and I still fall back into old habits, but I'm surrounded by people who remind me to live in a new way.” Thomas' progress has continued this…
in In the 2021-22 school year, chronic absenteeism rates among U.S. K-12 students offered only remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic were 6.9 percentage points higher than students attending in-person-only schools, and increased by 10.6 percentage points for at-risk students. JAMA Network Open study It was released yesterday.Using a difference-in-differences framework, researchers from the University of Notre Dame analyzed data from 22,034 observations across 11,017 school districts for the 2018-19 and 2021-22 school years. The dataset represents approximately 87% of all students.The number of chronically absent students is reported to the National Center for Education Statistics by each grade level,…
Planned Parenthood Action Fund CEO Alexis McGill Johnson (second from left) spoke at an event hosted by Think Big America, a progressive political action group launched last year by Gov. JB Pritzker (center). Panelists also included Kelly Hall (left) of the Fairness Project, Mini Timaraju of Reproductive Freedom for All, and Sarah Garza Resnick (right) of Personal PAC. (Photo by Hannah Meisel for Capitol News Illinois) Thursday, August 22, 2024 “Dark money” group founded and funded by Pritzker deploys strategy at Democratic National Convention Hannah MeiselCapitol News Illinoishmeisel@capitolnewsillinois.com CHICAGO — Gov. JB Pritzker used part…
We may earn commission from links on this page. If there's one thing about me, it's that I download any app. If I see an ad or hear about an app, I download it to my phone right away. I don't really care if it's all a conspiracy to get my data. My data is all over the place and it's too late to care. So I might as well take advantage of all the benefits these temporary VC enhancing apps can give me. Most of the time, I don't get much. But sometimes I get something for free. I…
When raising a child with a learning disability, many parents are quick to worry about the challenges they'll face. But Tim Waltz sees his son Gus' nonverbal learning disability as a strength. Waltz's wife and two children have been in the spotlight since Democratic candidate Kamala Harris selected the Minnesota governor as her running mate. Since then, Waltz has spoken publicly about his and his wife's seven-year struggle with infertility and their success with intrauterine insemination (IUI).Waltz has also spoken publicly in recent weeks about his 17-year-old son's illness, telling People magazine that he calls it Gus' “secret power.” He…
A screenshot of Apple's new browser choice screen to comply with EU digital markets law.John Kortzier Apple will allow iPhone and iPad owners to remove one of the company's most valuable and prized assets – the iOS App Store – by the end of this year. The change will bring Apple into compliance with European Union digital markets law and create more competition in the mobile ecosystem, but only within the EU. Other apps Apple allows users to delete include Messages, Photos, Camera, and Safari. Currently, these apps cannot be removed from an iPhone or iPad. “We will be making…
Apple has announced several DMA-related changes for iOS and iPadOS users in the EU: Earlier this year, Apple allowed alternative app stores and browser engines in the EU to comply with the Digital Markets Act, and now the company is going a step further with iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, allowing EU users to change even more default apps. In the EU, Apple plans to introduce a new default apps section in iOS 18 and iPadOS 18, where users will be able to see all configurable default apps, including default browser, email, App Store, contactless apps, etc. “In a future…
Apple today announced a series of new changes that will come into effect later this year for users running iOS and iPadOS in the European Union. As part of its response to the DMA, Apple introduced a new browser choice screen in iOS 17.4 in March 2024, prompting EU users to choose a new default browser the first time they open Safari after the update. Later this year, the screen will be shown again to all European users who set or keep Safari as their default web browser on iOS and iPadOS, “including users who had already seen the choice…