There are 33 new community cases today as the Government decides on New Zealand’s alert levels. Only one of today’s 33 cases is still to be epidemiologically linked and all are in Auckland. The one new community case announced today that has not been epidemiologically linked is a person who presented to Middlemore Hospital on Saturday. However, their seven other […]
Read moreThe Denver teachers union has endorsed its final candidate in November’s school board race: Xóchitl “Sochi” Gaytán, who is running to represent southwest Denver. Gaytán is a Denver Public Schools graduate and current parent, and works as a realtor. She previously ran for the school board in 2017 but lost to Angela Cobián, who is not running for reelection. Karolina […]
Read moreA man who murdered his girlfriend with more than 100 hard punches in 90 minutes has been jailed for life with a minimum non parole period of 17 years Samuel Pou, was found guilty of murder at the High Court in Whangārei in June over the death of Bridget Odelle Simmonds, 42, at a rural property on Wilson Rd, Parakao […]
Read moreColorado State University-Pueblo became the first campus in the state to reach net-zero efficiency last week when the school switched on its 23-acre solar array project. The solar scheme allows the campus to generate excess energy and put it back into the grid. “One of my bold goals for Colorado is reaching 100% renewable energy by 2040, and it’s thanks […]
Read moreThere are 41 new Covid-19 cases in the community today, bringing the total since the outbreak began to 148. Thirty-eight of the new cases are in Auckland and three of the new cases are in Wellington, director general of health Ashley Bloomfield says. Bloomfield and Deputy Minister Grant Robertson both expected more new active Covid-19 cases in the days ahead. […]
Read moreA University of Auckland student with Covid-19 attended a ball with around 500 fellow students at Aotea Centre on Saturday. The student also attended one of the university’s largest classes twice at a 600-seat auditorium which is regularly “packed”. The student, who tested positive on Friday, attended a first year ball for Waipārūrū Hall last Saturday. University of Auckland (UoA) […]
Read moreThere are 21 new cases of Covid-19 in the community – bringing the total number of people infected in the latest outbreak to 51. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she expects cases to rise into early next week before they start to drop. The virus can continue to spread during lockdown, as has been seen in New South Wales, Ardern […]
Read moreNew Zealand’s largest university and two more schools are expected to be added to a ballooning list of locations where the Delta strain may have been spread. There are now 28 confirmed Covid cases in Auckland and three in Wellington, along with news students at the University of Auckland and Auckland’s De la Salle College and McAuley High School have […]
Read moreBoulder police investigated Fairview High School Principal Don Stensrud for potentially obstructing the police’s sexual assault investigation into the school’s star quarterback in 2019, records obtained Wednesday by The Denver Post show. The Boulder County District Attorney’s office declined to press criminal charges against Stensrud, and the principal’s attorney said Thursday that Stensrud was just following the school district’s policy […]
Read moreOPINION It all began in New Zealand with Rogernomics, the neo-liberal transformation of the economy in the late 1980s. For true believers in this now discredited doctrine, education was “a business like any other”, subject like the private sector to top-down managerial efficiencies. Primary and secondary education, they said, was a “public good”, and therefore to be funded by the […]
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