| Families sue Illinois school district over transgender bathroom case Posted: 04 May 2016 03:27 PM PDT Dozens of families on Wednesday sued two federal agencies and a suburban Chicago school district over a policy they said disregards student privacy and safety by allowing transgender students to use bathrooms that correspond with their gender identity. Fifty-one families in the Palatine, Illinois, area sued the U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Justice Department and Township High School District 211 for agreeing last December to provide a changing area in the girls' locker room for transgender students. |
| Set the date! Google I/O runs from May 18-20 in Mountain View, California Posted: 04 May 2016 02:24 PM PDT  The official Google I/O app has been updated to reflect the upcoming developer conference at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California from May 18 to May 20. The annual event is a place for Google to unleash all of its software and service announcements, but it also allows developers to get in touch with the creator of the biggest search engine and mobile operating system. Google CEO Sundar Pichai announced the dates on Twitter in January, and the Web page went live in March. Now with the app updated for the 2016 conference, it makes it easier for attendees to schedule and plan what sessions they want to attend on the go. The schedule has been available on the Google I/O website for a few weeks. The app has an interactive map you can use to help you get around, if you're lucky enough to be attending. You can also get reminders before events start, and will further be able to live stream the keynote and certain sessions. With just weeks away, the app update will do nothing but fuel the hype for what's to come at the developer conference. You can download the app from the Google Play Store. Registration ended on March 10, but not just anyone can go to these conferences, as general admission tickets are $900. You could have purchased an academic ticket for $300 if qualified as an "active full-time student, professor, faculty or staff at a high school or higher education institution." The venue is a change in scenery for Google, which has used the Moscone Center for all of its I/O events since it started the annual conference. The Shoreline Amphitheatre is an outdoor venue with the capacity for 22,500 attendees, so let's hope it doesn't rain. I/O'16 coming to neighborhood where it all started 10 yrs ago: Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, May 18-20. More details soon. #io16 — sundarpichai (@sundarpichai) January 12, 2016 The outdoor venue does raise some questions, such as the possibility of a Project Wing or Project Loon demo. The company's self-driving car division might also be on site to answer questions and give people a driverless tour of the venue, possibly revealing the self-driving taxi that was rumored a few months ago. Related: Google's Project Zero chastised Trend Micro over security vulnerability "Shoreline Amphitheatre" by Coolcaesar Coolcaesar/Wikipedia Commons The past year has been exciting for Google, as the company went through a major restructuring. Sundar Pichai went from head of services to head of the entire company, with co-founder and head honcho Larry Page moving to chief executive of Alphabet, the parent holding company. We aren't sure if Google I/O will be all about Google or all about Alphabet. Google only covers Android, Gmail, Search, and a few other key services now, with most of the Google X operations turned into separate divisions inside the Alphabet umbrella. In the past two years, I/O has become more about software and developers, and less about new hardware and moonshots. Only time will tell what this year holds. Updates: Updated on 05-04-2016 by Julian Chokkattu: Added news that the Google I/O app has been updated for 2016. Updated on 03-08-2016 by Malarie Gokey: Added news that registration is open. Updated on 03/01/2016 by Julian Chokkattu: Added in more details on registration dates for Google's event.
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| Chicago mayor vows fiscal fix before muni audience Posted: 04 May 2016 10:29 AM PDT  Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel tried to reassure municipal credit analysts on Wednesday that the city and its public school district are not falling into a financial abyss. "I will not rest until we fix the fiscal position of both the city and (Chicago Public Schools)," the mayor told the National Federation of Municipal Analysts annual conference. The battle between Illinois' Republican governor, Bruce Rauner, and Democrats who control the legislature has left the state without a fiscal 2016 budget and has stymied Chicago's efforts to seek pension relief.
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| Eyewitness News anchors, reporters remember their favorite teachers Posted: 04 May 2016 07:11 AM PDT  To honor Teacher Appreciation Week, our Eyewitness News anchors, reporters remember their favorite teachers
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| 'Payback Playbook' Among New Web Tools for Student Loan Borrowers Posted: 04 May 2016 06:00 AM PDT The move is a part of the Department of Education's initiative to enroll an additional 2 million student loan borrowers into a repayment plan such Pay As You Earn and other income-based repayment plans. Around 70 percent of student borrowers who are in default would qualify for one of the available income-based repayment plans, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office. For federal Stafford, PLUS and consolidation loans, collection costs can run as high as 24 percent unless the borrower consolidates out of default and rehabilitates the loans. |
| Detroit teachers ending 2-day sick-out, fighting legislation Posted: 04 May 2016 05:00 AM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — Detroit schools reopened Wednesday after teachers who had called out sick for two days received assurances from the financially struggling district that they would continue to be paid.
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| Detroit teachers expected back in class after pay assurances: union Posted: 03 May 2016 05:08 PM PDT  Hundreds of teachers in Michigan's largest public school system called in sick beginning on Monday after hearing news the cash-strapped school system would run out of money to pay employees at the end of June. The Detroit public school system, or DPS, with nearly 46,000 students, has been under state control since 2009 because of a financial emergency. It will run out of money to pay employees after the fiscal year ends on June 30, the school system's state-appointed transition manager, former federal bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes, has said.
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| Why Los Angeles Might Be Ground Zero for a New Generation of Youth Activists Posted: 03 May 2016 04:57 PM PDT  "Stand up if you live two blocks from a liquor store or fast-food restaurant."That was the instruction given by a 20-something facilitator to a room of about 25 black and Latino high school students from underserved neighborhoods in the greater Los Angeles area. They were just some of the nearly 200 teens of color who attended "Rise Up for Humanity—Justice for the Forgotten," a conference hosted last Friday by the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission. ...
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