There were few available adults to step in for teachers and administrators who were directly impacted by the assault.
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Ashley Belanger,
ArsTechnica,
22 Sep. 2026
Chief Operating Officer David Reinhart said the district’s policy on decommissioning schools asks administrators to monitor enrollment, the health of buildings and demographic trends with its long-range planning committee.
Young professionals send out thousands of applications with no luck, while hiring managers wade through a deluge of candidates for a single job posting.
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Emma Burleigh,
Fortune,
20 Sep. 2026
In an email exchange, store managers Sara Beattie and Brooke Berlin tell us what museumgoers are buying right now.
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Marc Weingarten,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Sep. 2026
Medical contractor supervisors confirmed that Sims was not prescribed the medication at the time and that it was not documented as having been administered, investigators said.
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CBS News Atlanta Digital Team,
CBS News,
16 Sep. 2026
Workers such as editors, singers and sound supervisors joined bill author Assemblymember Nick Schultz (D-Burbank) and Mayor Karen Bass at a news conference Thursday morning in front of the Television Academy’s headquarters in North Hollywood.
Bonta’s suit had leaned heavily into potential harms to theatrical distribution, and lawyers for the states had been banking on theater executives’ testimony at trial.
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Meg James,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Sep. 2026
So, here, WWD celebrates the designers, executives and other figures who today are helping to drive Italian — and the world’s — culture.
The selection of key pieces of Oklahoma’s high-stakes reading law is underway in a process that likely will straddle two governors and state superintendents.
At least twice each fiscal year, school boards review updated financial projections and classify their districts’ fiscal health as positive, qualified or negative, after which county superintendents review each certification and may downgrade it.
That meeting occurred after Russian missiles and drones struck at least four Ukrainian regions overnight, strikes that officials said killed five people.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
23 Sep. 2026
In 1953 Arizona state officials organized another raid on Short Creek in which more than 100 were arrested and over 200 children were taken into state custody (they were reunited with their families two years later).
At least seven armed gunmen also attempted to enter the police compound and exchanged fire with officers.
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Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Sep. 2026
New York State has agreed to pay a $24 million settlement to the family of Robert Brooks, who was beaten to death by Department of Corrections officers while in custody at an upstate prison, state officials said.
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