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Feds move to drop car theft charges against slain rapper Pop Smoke

Federal prosecutors filed the motion in Brooklyn Federal Court in the case against the “Welcome to the Party” rapper, Bashar Jackson, 20, who was shot dead in Los Angeles in a Hollywood Hills home invasion in February.




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Pair of armed NYC muggers in medical masks use coronavirus pandemic to launch violent crime spree: cops

The heartless bandits with hidden faces are wanted for a violent robbery spree across Brooklyn and the Bronx over the past five weeks that includes beating an 83-year-old man, pistol-whipping a woman and shooting a bread deliveryman who survived a bullet to the pancreas.




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Teacher pushes for resolution in long-standing lawsuit on school racism

Former principal Minerva Zanca of Pan American High School in Queens allegedly targeted black staffers from 2012-13, calling one a “gorilla” and “nappy-haired," according to a lawsuit filed in 2016 by the federal Justice Department.




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NYC schools chancellor slams critics over abrupt ending to Queens school town hall, calling it a ‘set up’

Critics have slammed the chancellor for making an early exit from a town hall in Bayside last week after two furious parents stood up mid-meeting to demand answers from the schools chief about alleged assaults their middle school children suffered at M.S. 158




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Ballooning state aid for private schools subsidized teacher salaries at some of NYC’s most expensive private schools

A fast-growing New York state program that funds math and science teacher salaries at private schools paid out hundreds of thousands of dollars to some of the city’s priciest private schools that can charge over $50,000 a year for tuition, the Daily News has learned.




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NYC parents of special needs students file class action suit over special education court delays

The special education courts are designed to protect the legal rights of those children, but the city’s system is so overburdened that vulnerable students wait months or years for help getting critical support, according to the legal complaint.




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NYC Council bill seeks to make free summer camp available to all city students

Two city Council member proposed universal summer camp.




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New Jersey teacher under investigation after inappropriate slavery lesson

Lawrence Cuneo, an eighth-grade social studies teacher in the coastal town of Toms River, is under investigation by school officials.




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NYC lawyers push back on state proposal to lower qualifications for special education judges amid shortage

New York City currently has fewer than 70 special education judges — called impartial hearing officers — to handle the thousands of complaints that special education students lodge every year against the city school system, resulting in more than 10,000 still-open cases.




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NYC Education Dept. announces six-month delay on Queens school diversity plan after parent pushback

Officials explained Wednesday that pushing the deadline from June to December for drafting a plan to diversify school enrollment in Queens’s District 28, which stretches from Forest Hills to Jamaica, would allow more people to give their input.




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NYC Education Dept. employees added to city mental health services plan

Schools workers and their families will be eligible for the Employee Assistance Program, an initiative that helps city workers, at no cost, identify mental health issues, find counseling, and get specialized support for issues like addiction.




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Staten Island politician urges NYC Education Dept. to sit out St. Patrick’s Day parade after LGBTQ exclusion

City Council Member Debi Rose (D - Staten Island) said city students shouldn’t feel obligated to march with their schools or bands in the parade while event organizers refuse to let the Staten Island Pride Center march.




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Lawsuit challenges Trump administration toughening of student loan cancellation rules

New rules from federal Education Secretary Betsy DeVos would severely limit students' ability to clear debt by burying them in bureaucratic red tape, according to a new federal lawsuit.




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NY Board of Regents proposes letting non-lawyers be special ed judges

The New York Board of Regents said the move will allow the state to hire more judges and ease the growing backlog of cases.




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NYC foster care groups plead for school bus guarantee for kids who can’t get to class

Nearly 20 groups representing New York City foster kids pleaded with officials to finally guarantee school buses to students in foster care so they no longer have to switch schools because they can’t get to class.




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CUNY, SUNY systems to cancel in-person classes for remainder of semester due to coronavirus

The college systems, which enroll a combined 700,000 students across the state, will move to a “distance learning model,” Cuomo said at a coronavirus-related press conference Wednesday.




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Two Staten Island public schools close after student tests positive for coronavirus

New Dorp High School and the Richard H. Hungerford School were being shut down out of “an abundance of caution,” the DOE said on Twitter early Friday.




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Harlem School of the Arts closes down classes for coronavirus

The private institute offers arts classes to 4,000 students mostly in Harlem, through classes at its building and at partner schools.




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NYC teachers union threatens lawsuit if schools still open Monday amid coronavirus spread

Mulgrew accused city officials of not complying with state protocol on school closures - which mandates 24-hour shutdowns if a student or staff member tests positive - and creating unsafe labor conditions.




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NYC Education Dept. releases new details on contingency plans for food and childcare amid coronavirus school shutdown

The sites, which Mayor de Blasio first announced Sunday, will be staffed by a combination of city teachers and community-based organizations, according to a plan the city Education Department submitted to state officials Monday night.




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Black and Latino students admitted to NYC’s specialized high schools stays flat at 11%

At Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan, the city’s most selective public high school, only 10 black students and 20 Latino students got admissions offers, out of nearly 800 students accepted, data shows.




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NYC lawmakers push to expand specialized high school exam to combat low black, Latino enrollment

The proposal comes as city officials announced that only 11% of students admitted to specialized schools this year were black or Latino, compared to 70% of all city students, a figure virtually unchanged from years past.




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‘Like Uber Computer': How a Brooklyn middle school delivered hundreds of laptops amid the coronavirus school shutdown

A Brooklyn middle school took a novel approach to remote learning: A computer drop-off service to students.




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New Jersey furniture company workers say they were laid off in midst of coronavirus in retaliation for union efforts

Workers were organizing with Teamsters Local 814 in the hopes of starting a union to address simmering concerns over pay and inconsistent hours.




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NYC officials eliminate the last remaining days of school spring break

City schools were originally supposed to be off April 9-17.




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Late-life literary success makes Brooklyn College teacher one of three CUNY profs to win Guggenheim Fellowships

Sigrid Nunez, 69, authored the National Book Award-winning novel “The Friend," which depicts a woman’s grief over the death of a close friend as she cares for his dog. She’s among 175 recipients of this year’s grants, which aim to give awardees the financial freedom to pursue their creative work.




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‘We paras are the front lines:’ NYC schools confront devastating coronavirus death toll among classroom paraprofessionals

Twenty-two of the city’s 25,000 paraprofessionals have died from the coronavirus, a rate four times higher than the rest of the 150,000-employee Department of Education, according to the agency’s data.




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Older NYC high school students working during coronavirus pandemic struggle to keep a grip on classwork

Maira Ramirez feels a pang of guilt when her phone buzzes with class assignments while she’s working double shifts at a kosher market to support her financially-strapped family during the pandemic. “I would be at work and see the notifications pop up on Google Classrooms," said Ramirez, a 20-year-old student at West Brooklyn Community High School — a transfer school for students who have struggled in traditional high schools. “I’d be like ‘Damn, I can’t even do them.'”




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NYC council members urge de Blasio to avoid classroom cuts in budget negotiations

The lawmakers say the city should turn its attention to pricey contracts, testing payments and administrative costs before axing $181 million from school budgets that cover the salaries of teachers, social workers, and other staff.




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Scotland league restructure plans abandoned

Plans to restructure the league system in Scotland have broken down following a meeting of Scottish Premiership clubs.




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2021 Dublin Horse Show moves to late August

The 147th Dublin Horse Show will take place from 18 to 22 August 2021 at the RDS, later than the traditional early August dates to avoid a clash with the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics.




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Solskjaer plans Pogba-Fernandes partnership

Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer believes playmaker Bruno Fernandes and record signing Paul Pogba can form a strong midfield partnership when the Premier League season resumes following the Covid-19 disruption.




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Repeat Sigange V4 - New Flash based touch screen system

Allows pictures/PDF/PowerPoint files to be selected and for users to interact with them.




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Repeat Signage V4.0.6 - New database driven templates

Our Corporate edition now supports tying your database to a fully customisable template for automatic display of database information.




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Repeat Signage launches new brochure

With thanks to our Repeat Signage customers, the new Repeat Signage brochure, showcases a variety of ways of displaying the software on screens, across a variety of vertical markets. You can download the PDF brochure without leaving your details.




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Latest Repeat Signage success story

The Canadian Black Belt Academy in Ontario, advertises to clients, connects to RSS feeds and creates better branding with Repeat Signage Standard edition software.




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New website launch

We have updated the www.repeatsoftware.com website to a new design.




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New GDPR laws

We have updated RepeatServer.com and RepeatSignage.com and fully audited our data in line with new GDPR laws.




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Quayside Shopping Centre displays Repeat Signage software

Sligo's busy Quayside Shopping Centre promotes its shops and events on four display screens throughout the centre, keeping shoppers updated with dynamic content.




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Walsh: Empty stands wouldn't bother players

Tommy Walsh believes playing inter-county championships behind closed doors would be preferable to cancelling the 2020 season and that putting the players' health first is key.




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Collins: Players are amateurs - they don't have to play

Clare football boss Colm Collins believes players should not be pressurised into returning to competitive action in any way, stressing their amateur status gives them the right to refuse to take to the field if they're uncomfortable.




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RTÉ GAA Podcast: Spillane and Cavanagh on half-forwards

Runaway vote leader Pat Spillane and five-time All-Star Sean Cavanagh join Mikey Stafford and Rory O'Neill to discuss the best half-forwards of The Sunday Game era.




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Brennan bleak on prospect of play

Laois hurling manager Eddie Brennan believes a resumption of GAA matches faces numerous challenges amid the Covid-19 pandemic, with a vaccine the only surefire measure to allay concerns of players and public alike.




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When Spillane snubbed NFL & Jackie Stewart in Bahamas

When Pat Spillane competed in the 1979 edition of International Superstars the school teacher from Templenoe was an amateur among pros, but he had the chance to pocket up to €3000 per event if he could win.




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Income, Liquidity, and the Consumption Response to the 2020 Economic Stimulus Payments -- by Scott R. Baker, R. A. Farrokhnia, Steffen Meyer, Michaela Pagel, Constantine Yannelis

In response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the US government brought about a collection of fiscal stimulus measures: the 2020 CARES Act. Among other provisions, this Act directed cash payments to households. We analyze households’ spending responses using high-frequency transaction data. We also explore heterogeneity by income levels, recent income declines, and liquidity. We find that households respond rapidly to receipt of stimulus payments, with spending increasing by $0.25-$0.35 per dollar of stimulus during the first 10 days. Households with lower incomes, greater income drops, and lower levels of liquidity display stronger responses. Liquidity plays the most important role, with no observed spending response for households with high levels of bank account balances. Relative to the effects of previous economic stimulus programs in 2001 and 2008, we see much smaller increases in durables spending and larger increases in spending on food, likely reflecting the impact of shelter-in-place orders and supply disruptions. We hope that our results inform the current debate about appropriate policy measures.




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Man called 911 to report 'a black male running down the street’ before Ahmaud Arbery shooting, audio recordings confirm

Audio recordings of two 911 calls placed moments before Ahmaud Arbery was killed confirm that at least two people were concerned that a black man was running in their Georgia neighborhood.




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Trump calls video of Ahmaud Arbery killing ‘disturbing’ but trusts Georgia’s ‘very good’ law enforcement

President Trump on Friday called the viral video of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing “very, very disturbing,” but he said he’s confident that Georgia’s law enforcement authorities will handle the case properly despite a slow-moving investigation and conflict-of-interest questions surrounding the incident. “So I saw the tape, and it’s very, very disturbing," he said in a Fox New phone interview. “I looked at a picture of that young man. He was in a tuxedo... And I will say that that looks like a really good, young guy.”




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No burglaries were reported in neighborhood where Ahmaud Arbery was killed, contradicting suspects’ claim: report

An already-unlikely motive in the Ahmaud Arbery murder case became even more suspicious on Friday. The two Georgia men who were caught on video shooting the unarmed jogger to death in February claim they were chasing a suspect behind a series of burglaries in the area. But a local police official said the last break-in the neighborhood was reported nearly two months before the shooting.




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California man to plead guilty to conning ‘black-ish’ star

That's plenty sketchy-ish.




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When Do Shelter-in-Place Orders Fight COVID-19 Best? Policy Heterogeneity Across States and Adoption Time -- by Dhaval M. Dave, Andrew I. Friedson, Kyutaro Matsuzawa, Joseph J. Sabia

Shelter in place orders (SIPOs) require residents to remain home for all but essential activities such as purchasing food or medicine, caring for others, exercise, or traveling for employment deemed essential. Between March 19 and April 20, 2020, 40 states and the District of Columbia adopted SIPOs. This study explores the impact of SIPOs on health, with particular attention to heterogeneity in their impacts. First, using daily state-level social distancing data from SafeGraph and a difference-in-differences approach, we document that adoption of a SIPO was associated with a 5 to 10 percent increase in the rate at which state residents remained in their homes full-time. Then, using daily state-level coronavirus case data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we find that approximately three weeks following the adoption of a SIPO, cumulative COVID-19 cases fell by 44 percent. Event-study analyses confirm common COVID-19 case trends in the week prior to SIPO adoption and show that SIPO-induced case reductions grew larger over time. However, this average effect masks important heterogeneity across states — early adopters and high population density states appear to reap larger benefits from their SIPOs. Finally, we find that statewide SIPOs were associated with a reduction in coronavirus-related deaths, but estimated mortality effects were imprecisely estimated.