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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK – Google today announced the expansion of the Grow with Google HBCU Career Readiness Program into sixteen new Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), including North Carolina Central University and Saint Augustine’s University in North Carolina. Through a $1 million investment in the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the program provides digital skills workshops in HBCU career centers to help Black students prepare for the workforce. Announced in October, the initiative’s goal is to reach 20,000 students during the current school year. Today’s announcement brings the number of participating schools to twenty. The program will be available to all HBCUs by fall 2021.
RALEIGH – A new year has arrived, and with it new hopes and resolutions. On the political front, here are some goals for North Carolina as state lawmakers return to
Jan 26, 2021 / 08:00 PM EST
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) As the country combats a teacher shortage, diversifying the classroom has become a priority for many districts around the state.
The first-ever Educate Me Foundation’s HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) teacher fair aims to recruit a diverse pool of teachers to help with that.
The teacher fair will be streamed online on Wednesday starting at 11 a.m., but people who want to participate need to register here.
Data shows although Black and brown students make up a large percentage of student population, in many districts, just a fraction of teachers mirror those same ethnic backgrounds. And many say the value of having educators who look like you is priceless.
Why?
Fracking!
Yes, center-left boys and girls, that dirty, nasty, evil fracking that you hate more than steamed spinach yields abundant natural gas.
As skyscrapers, power plants, and buses switch to gas, they respectively yield 32 percent less CO2 than with heating oil, 50 percent less versus coal, and 88 percent less beside diesel. This helped push energy-related U.S. CO2 output into a post-1985 pit.
•Stop income inequality! For years, the left screamed for an end to American paychecks in different amounts. If only we all earned the same, they dreamed.
Under the income-inequality-hating Obama-Biden administration, the relevant Gini Coefficient actually increased from 0.466 in 2008 to 0.481 in 2016 3.218 percent more unfairness.