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Middletown parents criticize school district's plan for return to classes FacebookTwitterEmail Middletown Superintendent of Schools Michael Conner.Cassandra Day / Hearst Connecticut Media file photo / MIDDLETOWN — Schools will send students in pre-kindergarten through fifth-grade back to school buildings nearly full-time beginning March 15 four days per week, while keeping those in grades 6-12 continuing under a hybrid model, despite appeals from parents who say experts’ data supports full reentry. Students will continue to learn remotely on Wednesdays. The proposal, debated over the ...

Employment in January of this year was nearly 10 million below its February 2020 level, a greater shortfall than the worst of the Great Recession's aftermath. After rising to 14.8 percent in April of last year, the published unemployment rate has fallen relatively swiftly, reaching 6.3 percent in January. But published unemployment rates during COVID have dramatically understated the deterioration in the labor market. Most importantly, the pandemic has led to the largest 12-month decline in labor force participation since at least 1948.  Fear of the virus and the disappearance of employment ...

AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic If there’s one thing the mainstream media loves doing almost as much as they do shilling for Democrats and their pet causes it’s pointing out supposedly historic “firsts” in U.S. politics. With every election cycle comes the breathless stories about how so and so could be the “first woman with 7 degrees and a 4-car garage” to be elected to serve as county commissioner, or how another person has become the “first bixsexual man with two dogs” to win a city council seat in Podunk City, USA. So when failed 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Pete Butti...

GISuser.com 5 Concentration Apps That Will Get You Down to Business January 31, 2021 By Editor Getting Back to Work Made Easy with These Distraction Blocking Apps The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines focus as follows: ‘… A state or condition permitting clear perception or understanding…’ Getting into the zone and staying there is challenging at the best of times. The Internet presents as the greatest distraction to our focus, what with ubiquitous soundbites, social media, news, sports, entertainment, and gaming distractions.  Our lack of focus may be rooted in our inability to mul...

Small businesses have been among the hardest hit by COVID-19 in Australia but new research by Mastercard on the impact on their operations shows SMEs nationwide have adapted swiftly to the challenges by embracing digital commerce.