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As the NSW teachers’ strike looms next week, the union is using the same tactics that brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets of Sydney in the 1980s.

As the NSW teachers’ strike looms next week, the union is using the same tactics that brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets of Sydney in the 1980s.

As the NSW teachers’ strike looms next week, the union is using the same tactics that brought hundreds of thousands onto the streets of Sydney in the 1980s.

The Learning First Charter Public School in Worcester will move to the site of St. Marys Schools off Vernon Street to occupy a building that closed last year. Learning First plans to start a $14-million renovation this fall and move in over the summer of 2022. Those costs will be funded primarily through tax-exempt bonds, donations, historic tax credits, and cash the school has saved, Learning First said. A limited liability corporation registered to the charter schools business services manage...

Learning First charter school in Worcester to move into former St. Marys WORCESTER — Learning First Charter Public School — on Gage Street for most of its 25 years — will move to the former St. Marys Schools building on Richland Street. Learning First, which has about 670 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, announced Monday that it had purchased the main building of St. Marys, 50 Richland St. St. Marys closed last year, amid declining enrollment, and last week the Diocese...

Listen   As virtual reality becomes more prevalent in K–12 educational spaces, developers continue to create content that enables students to partake in a host of realistic and fantastical simulations. Students can visit new places, create 3D artwork and conduct science experiments in ways that might not otherwise be possible. We have seen classroom applications of VR that fully utilize the technology to engage students in rich and novel immersive learning experiences. We have also seen VR u...

USA TODAY André Le Duc doesn’t consider himself a fortune teller. As the University of Oregon’s chief of safety and risks, Le Duc prides himself on planning, often way into the future. So when the novel coronavirus started to spread in China in early 2020, Le Duc knew it wasn’t going away anytime soon. He told his university administration to start planning immediately, and mentally preparing, for a months-long, worldwide pandemic.  In a disaster situation, Le Duc said, timing is ...

After a fall of COVID outbreaks, college students are expected back on campus in 2021. Will they be required to have the vaccine once its available?