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BOSTON – With more than $ 110 million for the early education and care sector, including a tripling of funding for provider salaries, House leaders said Monday that their fiscal year 2023 budget proposal will seek to make child care more accessible to families in Massachusetts. Early education and child care appears primed to be…

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New York state lawmakers passed a budget over the weekend that will boost funding for New York City schools by about 4% per pupil next school year. The city’s public schools will receive just over $ 12 billion in state funding. State funds represent roughly 40% of the city’s education operating budget. School funding is…

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Bitcoin is becoming one of the biggest buzzwords in the world. Data from a July 2021 survey conducted by analysis firm Exploding Topics found that roughly 1,700 American adults, or 89% of participants, had heard of Bitcoin. A recent survey from the cryptocurrency platform Paxful also found that 95% of women out of 1,555 females…

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Editor’s note: Jennifer Graebe is the director of nursing continuing professional development and joint accreditation at the American Nurses Credentialing Center, and Lisa McIntyre-Hite is vice president of learning innovation at Guild Education. Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, America’s nursing shortage is well established. What’s less understood is how higher education can help to…

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The GeekWire Awards’ STEM Educator of the Year honorees, from left to right: Devina Khan, instructional designer at the West Valley Innovation Center; Stephanie Winslow, teacher at South Kitsap High School; and Johanna Brown, teacher at Pullman High School. (Photos courtesy of Khan, Winslow and Brown) In a world without terrific STEM teachers there would…

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Most organizations that offer educational benefits require employees to pay upfront for courses, followed by some percentage of reimbursement. This limits who can afford to further their education: typically, those with robust savings and prior degrees are the ones who take advantage of the benefit. Recent analysis and data from Walmart and other organizations that…

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By MARY SELL and MADDISON BOOTH, Alabama Daily News MONTGOMERY, Ala. – State Rep. Lynn Greer, R-Rogersville, at the end of his sixth four-year term going back to 1974, said the Alabama Legislature’s session that ended Thursday night was unlike any he’d previously seen. “We had more money than I ever dreamed we’d have, both…

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