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Portland-area kids are getting help with school clothes, thanks to Assistance League: Season of Sharing 2022

Portland-area kids are getting help with school clothes, thanks to Assistance League: Season of Sharing 2022

As any serious student of human beings knows, it’s what’s on the inside that matters most. But sometimes something nice to wear on the outside can also make a big difference on the inside. The more than 160 volunteers of the Assistance League of Greater Portland know this very well. In the past school year, …

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AWS Think Big Space opens at JL Simpson Middle School

AWS Think Big Space opens at JL Simpson Middle School

Amazon Web Services’ newest Think Big Space in Virginia opened Thursday at JL Simpson Middle School in Leesburg. The AWS Think Big Space is an educational lab for students in the school and across the county that builds on the division’s existing computer programming that was first integrated in 2017. IT Division Supervisor Nicholas Grzeda …

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The School of Health Sciences Hosts the Fourth Annual Global Engagement and Research Forum

The School of Health Sciences Hosts the Fourth Annual Global Engagement and Research Forum

Students from the Doctor of Physical Therapy, Master of Physician Assistant Studies and Nursing programs shared their research at the annual forum at McKinnon Hall inside the Moseley Center on Tuesday. Sporting a pair of black virtual reality goggles, physical therapy doctoral student Alex Japit G’24 shared how the research he is conducting with fellow …

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Lawmakers debate whether statewide school internet network will work in rural areas

Lawmakers debate whether statewide school internet network will work in rural areas

State officials aim to have the same broadband connection in place for all New Mexico schools by 2027 The statewide education network aims to give New Mexico schools the ability to access an internet server that covers the entire state by 2027. (Shaun Griswold/Source NM) State lawmakers expressed familiar skepticism during recent updates on New …

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Hazelwood School District Pays for Radioactive Contamination Testing at Additional District Sites

Hazelwood School District Pays for Radioactive Contamination Testing at Additional District Sites

The US Army Corps of Engineers confirmed to 5 On Your Side that their agency was never asked to test additional spaces. FLORISSANT, Mo. – Further testing is underway in the Hazelwood School District for radioactive contaminants. This is after conflicting reports of the presence of radioactive contamination at Jana Elementary in Florissant. Under the …

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Ten New Professors Join Augusta University’s School of Computing and Cyberscience

Augusta University School of Computing and Cyberscience is proud to announce the addition of 10 new faculty this academic year. The School of Computing and Cyberscience has experienced unprecedented growth over the past four years. Student enrollment doubled, and for the first time in the school’s history, the student body totaled over 700. The school …

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KU School of Nursing launches "Metaversity" offering virtual and immersive learning

KU School of Nursing launches “Metaversity” offering virtual and immersive learning

KANSAS CITY, Kan. – As a child growing up in California, Alejandra Buenrostro used to watch “The Magic School Bus” on TV. In the PBS animated series, Mrs. Frizzle and her students rode a special bus that could take them on scientific field trips to otherwise impossible places, including inside the human body. Now an …

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The state program provides child care assistance to Lake County families;  “We want them to do well in school”

The state program provides child care assistance to Lake County families; “We want them to do well in school”

Preparing young people for kindergarten from an early age is part of the mission of Maggie’s Place Childcare & Learning Center in Waukegan. To educate many of them, the school receives a boost from the Illinois Child Care Assistance Program. “It helps working parents who wouldn’t be able to put their kids in daycare without …

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This South Jersey district was shut down for three days due to an internet problem by an 'unauthorized third party'

This South Jersey district was shut down for three days due to an internet problem by an ‘unauthorized third party’

Melanie Burney The Philadelphia Investigator The CHSF Hospital Center in Corbeil-Essonnes, south-east of the French capital, was the victim of a computer attack which began late Saturday evening. A South Jersey school system kept schools closed on Thursday – the third day in a row – due to internet problems caused by an ‘unauthorized third …

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