The Richmond Promise Scholarship application deadline is March 14, 2021.
By applying for a Richmond Promise Scholarship, students can receive $1,500 renewable for up to four years toward a two-year or four-year college and/or a Career Technical Education Certificate at any U.S. not-for-profit institution. As an added bonus, students can petition for an additional two years of funding.
To be eligible for the Richmond Promise Scholarship, students must: reside in the City of Richmond or North Richmond (i.e. have a Richmond home address); have graduated from an eligible high school within the West Contra Costa Unified School District (WCCUSSD) boundaries or received a GED/high school equivalency this academic year or the previous one and be under the age of 24; and have attended an eligible high school at least 9
“I hope that all teachers will take advantage of the opportunity to get vaccinated,” said Bacigalupi.
Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced the state is releasing 75,000 vaccines every week strictly for teachers and other education workers.
In Oakland, the Coliseum site is dedicating the next two days to vaccinate anyone who works in a school building.
NBC Bay Area reached out to the Oakland Unified School District to find out if they’re keeping track of how many teachers are getting vaccinated, and a district spokesperson says they are not tracing that information and they are not requiring teachers to get vaccinated.
State Supreme Court to decide if schools subject to suits under anti-discrimination law
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Lawyer Micha Star Liberty: “In California we have great protections (for victims of discrimination) but not in public schools” unless the Unruh Act applies.Yalonda M. James / The Chronicle
The California Supreme Court, in a Bay Area case, has agreed to decide a question of students’ rights that has remained unsettled for more than 60 years: whether public schools can be sued for damages under a state anti-discrimination law.
The Unruh Civil Rights Act was sponsored in 1959 by future Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh and was a forerunner of similar laws in other states. It applies to businesses that serve the public and allows suits for discrimination based on race, sex, religion, disability and other grounds that have been added over the years, including sexual orientation and immigration status.
That armor-piercing capability had gun control advocates pushing to ban the weapon more than a decade ago. While the FN Five-seveN is legal in California, its armor-piercing rounds are not for civilian purchase.
Over the last year, authorities have found evidence tying the 5.7 mm pistol to at least 14 street shootings from Watsonville to Antioch, including six in Oakland between April and June.
Authorities say they also recovered evidence that an FN Five-seveN was used in the slaying in September of local rapper Lamonta “Tay Way” Butcher in Richmond. Investigators believe the hip hop artist was essentially hunted down after posting on social media at a city street corner.
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