Home

Did Fairfax County’s substitute teacher incentive program help schools fill vacancies?

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

An incentive program introduced to help fill substitute teacher jobs showed promising results in Fairfax County Public Schools last year, Virginia’s largest school system said.Last year, teacher jobs had a substitute fill rate of about 83%, according to data obtained by WTOP through a Freedom of Information Act request. That’s a 9.5% improvement compared to the 2021-22 school year.Fill rates for instructional assistants improved by 6.9%, according to the data, though the 2022-23 fill rate for those jobs was just over 60%.Joanne Jackson, project administrator in the school system’s Office of Substitute Employment, said principals called the incentive program a “game changer,” explaining that it helped to ensure a substitute covered a class on a hard-to-fill day when the regular teacher wasn’t in school.The school system introduced the incentive program last year, offering hourly pay plus an additional $80 for every high-volume day worked. FCPS iden...

No. 2 pick C.J. Stroud struggles in his preseason debut as the Texans beat the Patriots 20-9

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — C.J. Stroud wouldn’t change much about stepping on the field for the first time against an NFL opponent. Except for one play. Stroud had a short and at times shaky debut that included an interception, Davis Mills threw a 6-yard touchdown pass to rookie Tank Dell and the Houston Texans beat the New England Patriots 20-9 in the teams’ preseason opener Thursday night. Stroud, drafted second overall out of Ohio State, played the first two series and went 2 of 4 for 13 yards. He rushed twice for 6 yards and was sacked once.“I’m critical of myself,” Stroud said. “But that is what being a quarterback and a rookie quarterback is. I hold myself to a different standard and I know that the guys in the locker room aren’t going to hold me down for this. … One mistake on national television blows it all up. But, it’s cool, I’II just keep growing.”Mills — who started 15 games last season — took over for Stroud and finished 9 of 12 for 99 yards...

Google está eliminando cuentas inactivas: cómo asegurarte de que la tuya continué segura

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

Si no recuerda la última vez que usó su cuenta de Google, podría ser un buen momento para verificar antes de que desaparezca para siempre. Google ha anunciado su Política de cuentas inactivas de Google, que busca eliminar las cuentas que han estado inactivas durante dos o más años. ¿No estás seguro de lo que significa estar inactivo? Google ha proporcionado una lista de lo que consideran activo, algunos de los cuales son tan simples como leer o enviar un correo electrónico. Estas actividades son lo que Google considera una cuenta activa. Verifica tu correo: Google podría eliminar cuentas inactivas a partir de esta fecha Google pagará $23 millones a sus usuarios y tú podrías reclamar una parte de este dinero ∙Uso de Google Drive ∙Viendo un video de YouTube ∙Compartir una foto ∙Descargando una aplicación ∙Uso de la búsqueda de Google ∙Usar el inicio de sesión con Google para iniciar sesión en una aplicación o servicio de tercerosSi ...

Explosion partially collapses multi-unit home on South Lincoln in Denver

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- A portion of a multi-unit residential building in Denver has partially collapsed after an explosion on Thursday evening.One person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries and one dog is missing, a Denver Fire Department spokesperson said. Everyone who was inside has been accounted for. Denver home explosion: Full fire department news conference The building has four units on two floors with the addresses 457, 459, 461 and 463 South Lincoln Street.The greatest damage can be seen on the southern side of the building. The homes to the south have also been impacted, fire officials said.Part of a multi-unit residential building on South Lincoln Street in Denver collapsed after an explosion on Aug. 10, 2023. (Photo: KDVR)Power has been shut off to both of the buildings. Crews from Xcel Energy are also at the scene shutting off the gas supply. Residents in the area may experience power and gas outages. Photos: Residential building explosion in Denver The cause of...

Education secretary talks student seclusion, trauma and support

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Three separate investigations are underway following allegations that a Denver middle school locked students alone inside a so-called seclusion room. The reports made it to the country’s top education official. U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona told "Colorado Point of View" this week that these types of rooms should not be used. Colorado Point of View: What AG Weiser is doing to help the teen mental health crisis "Look, we shouldn’t be having as a strategy a place where a student who’s in trauma is locked in a room alone and possibly harming themselves or destroying the room. We have to have layers of intervention and that requires support," Cardona said.Denver Public Schools does not allow students to be locked in a room, hence the investigations surrounding the reports at McAuliffe International School. But state law does allow for seclusion rooms in certain situations.U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona speaks with "Colorado Point of View" durin...

Plot runs aground in ‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

Based on Chapter 7 (aka “The Captain’s Log”) in Bram Stoker’s 1897 classic horror novel “Dracula,” “The Last Voyage of the Demeter” was expanded by writers Bragi F. Schut (“Escape Room”) and Zak Olkewicz (“Bullet Train”) into a full-length feature directed by Norwegian filmmaker Andre Ovredal of the sublime 2010 entry “Troll Hunter.” The film is brought to us by Universal Pictures, the studio that made its name with its Golden Age of Horror in the 1930s. That all sounds great, right?Well, the results are mixed at best. The action begins with the discovery of a wreck on the shores of Whitby, England in 1897, its masts shattered, sails in rags. Cut to four weeks earlier and the Demeter, a cargo vessel under the command of the soon-to-retire Captain Eliot (Liam Cunningham, “Game of Thrones”), is loading a shipment of 50 large crates to convey from Wallachia to London.One of the crates breaks free and almost kills a boy named Toby (Woody Norman), the Captain’s grandson...

Ira Sachs makes film about intimacy, gets NC-17 rating

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

Ira Sachs has been making gay films for over 30 years but “Passages,” a gay, bi and hetero drama, marks the first time he’s been slapped with an NC-17 rating.His film, which premiered at Sundance last January, is now going out unrated, uncut.“Passages,” set in cosmopolitan Paris, stars three of Europe’s most notable new stars – Germany’s Franz Rogowski, England’s out gay actor Ben Whishaw and France’s Adèle Exarchopoulos, best known for the sexually provocative “Blue is the Warmest Color.”When Rogowski’s director impulsively begins an affair with Exarchopoulos’s grade school teacher that changes everything for each of them. It leads to recriminations, lies and an explosive coupling between the two men that led to the rating.It all began, Sachs, 57, said in a Zoom interview, “During the pandemic. I craved a kind of cinema, as well as a kind of experience, that I really missed. And that was one of intimacy and passion.“I wanted to have experiences and I wanted to use cinema to create ...

Lowry: Rational Americans not sold on Hillary’s ‘village’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

Hillary Clinton can’t say she didn’t warn us.In a 3,500-word essay on “The Weaponization of Loneliness” in The Atlantic, the former secretary of state and presidential candidate says her jejune 1996 book, “It Takes a Village,” forecast the country’s current crisis of loneliness and offered still-relevant solutions.And, oh yeah, hapless lonely people exploited by authoritarian right-wingers basically kept her from the White House in 2016 (and here you thought it was Russia).Now, social isolation is a real social problem in America, as Hillary correctly recounts in her essay, and it has contributed to the Trump phenomenon. But that it has been uniquely weaponized against progressives, or that conventional progressive policies are the antidote to this deep-seated phenomenon is as absurd and self-serving as you’d expect from a woman who managed one of the more shocking losses in U.S. presidential history and has been offering excuses ever ...

John Angelos sought development rights to state-owned parking lots as Orioles negotiate new Camden Yards lease

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

As part of seeking an agreement on a new lease that will bind the Orioles to Baltimore, club chairman and CEO John Angelos sought commercial development rights to three state-owned parking lots that sit on valuable land between Oriole Park at Camden Yards and the Ravens’ M&T Bank Stadium.Angelos has long said publicly that signing a new agreement with the Maryland Stadium Authority for the state-owned ballpark would be about more than the MLB team’s home field. As part of his idea to create a surrounding “live-work-play” area, four people with knowledge of his request told The Baltimore Sun that Angelos proposed getting the rights to lots A, B and C.One of sources familiar with the negotiations said Angelos’ idea for the parking lots came up earlier in the talks with the administration of Gov. Wes Moore, but is no longer on the table. That is not the direction a final deal is headed, the source said. Another source emphasized that in any negotiation...

Great cast shoots for the stars in sci-fi comedy ‘Jules’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:26:51 GMT

The great Academy Award-winner Sir Ben Kingsley leads a strong cast in the modest science-fiction/fairy tale “Jules.” Written by TV veteran Gavin Steckler (“Review”) and directed by well-known indie producer Marc Turtletaub (“Little Miss Sunshine”), “Jules” tells the quirky tale of an old man who lives on his own in a leafy suburb (“Jules” was shot in Boonton, N.J.), where the highlight of his week is the town meeting at which he recommends a new crosswalk and a change to the town’s perfectly suitable slogan. Also certain to be at the town meeting are older, civic-minded, local residents Joyce (Jane Curtin) and Sandy (welcome TV veteran Harriet Sansom Harris).In his backyard, the old man, whose name is Milton Robinson (Kingsley in a shaggy wig) has a bird feeder, a patch of prized azaleas and a couple of smaller buildings. A widower, he, like many older Americans, likes watching “C.S.I.” reruns. He has a son he hasn’t heard from and a singleton, veterinarian daughter nam...