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Florida’s new restrictions on discussions of race, diversity and LGBTQ issues in classrooms have some teachers and school districts worried that partisan politics is seeping into schools. Critics of these new policies say they are contributing to a massive increase in teacher vacancies. Megan Grant taught English at Wakulla High School until the end of 2021. She says she left after being placed on leave while the district investigated her for allegedly teaching critical race theory. According to Grant, a white student said one of his assignments made him feel uncomfortable. “Basically them [the school district] I was trying to…

Veteran federal political reporter David Barnett, who headed the Australian Associated Press’s first official Canberra bureau more than 50 years ago, has died aged 90. Barnett became the national news channel’s first bureau chief in 1971 supervising two reporters at what is now Old Parliament House. It was just in time to report on one of the most seismic shifts in Australian politics: the 1972 election of Labor Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Barnett died at Calvary Hospital in Canberra on Saturday after a short stay. His journalism career began in 1949 as a copy boy at the Sydney Sun, before…

WASHINGTON – A divided Senate took a crucial step on Saturday in approving Democrats’ plan to tackle climate change, lower health care costs and raise taxes on big corporations, with a test vote that opened the way to enact a major part of President Biden’s domestic policy. agenda for the next few days. The measure advanced on a party-line vote of 51 to 50, with all Republicans opposed and Vice President Kamala Harris breaking the tie. The action suggested that Democrats, after more than a year of infighting and painstaking negotiations, had finally united behind legislation that would provide hundreds…

Comment on this story comment Indiana’s new blanket abortion ban produced immediate political and economic fallout Saturday as some of the state’s top employers opposed the restrictions, while Democratic leaders floated ways to amend or repeal the law and abortion rights activists made plans to organize alternative sites for women seeking. procedures Indiana’s law, which the Republican-controlled state legislature passed Friday night and Gov. Eric Holcomb (R) signed moments later, was the first statewide ban passed since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down lar Roe v. Wade in June and was celebrated as a major victory for abortion foes. On…

Hospitalizations related to COVID-19 continue to rise in San Diego County, but this summer’s wave is proving to be different of other waves. Most patients arrive with less severe illnesses and fewer people die, according to officials at local hospital systems. “It’s much less serious,” said Brett McClain, chief operating officer of Sharp HealthCare. Right now, about 460 San Diego County residents are hospitalized with COVID-19, a fourfold increase since May. But the situation is much better than last summer and last winter. Sharp has about 160 patients with COVID-19, the most of any hospital system in the county. However,…

The Democrats began to press their own economic bill of the election year on Saturday in the Senate, starting the extensive collection of President Joe Biden’s priorities on climate, energy, health and taxes on a path through Congress that the party hopes will end with victory later this week. In a preview of highly partisan votes expected on a mountain of amendments, the evenly divided Senate voted to begin debate on the legislation 51-50, with Vice President Kamala Harris breaking a tie and passing the unanimous Republican opposition. The package, a watered-down version of earlier trillion-dollar measures that Democrats failed…