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Died: April 15, 2021. VARTAN Gregorian, who has died aged 87, was an Armenian-American academic, philanthropist, and fund-raiser who was most famous for saving the world-famous New York Public Library from decay and economic destitution. But one of his other great philanthropic interests was Scotland: he was the long-serving president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the charitable fund that had been established in 1911 by the Scottish-American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, and he was instrumental in establishing the Andrew Carnegie Lectures at Edinburgh College of Art. He was a special advisor to Culture and Sport Glasgow (now Glasgow Life), which runs the city’s culture and leisure services, and he was also a trustee of businessman Sir Tom Hunter’s foundation. Vartan Gregorian, said Sir Tom, was a reminder that you should never be the richest person in the graveyard.
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AUSTIN, Texas When Michael Hinojosa was a government teacher, he encouraged students to read and study various sources from multiple perspectives, but a bill being considered by the Texas Legislature would discourage that approach. House Bill 3979 would ban Texas schools from requiring that teachers discuss controversial events or difficult social issues in the classroom. Hinojosa, now superintendent for the Dallas Independent School District, said if the bill is passed, teachers will approach their classrooms in a state of fear. .