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.

The next opportunity to take the test is Aug. 29, and the College Board will offer an additional chance to take the test in September if students are able to return to school.

CUNY students, whose median family income is $40,000 a year, say it’s the worst possible time to face additional expenses.

The bulk of students taking the test do so before starting Kindergarten—an aspect of the process critics say privileges parents with the money and savvy to prepare their young kids for the high-stakes exams.

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.'”

Union officials say school bus workers will be hit hard by the cuts.

Dozens of students and patients are thriving through distance learning and telehealth consultation via the Blythedale Children’s Hospital.

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.

Schools chancellor Richard Carranza put the kibosh on the app in early April, several weeks into the city’s seismic shift to remote learning, citing concerns about Zoom’s privacy and security features.

While linkbait posts aren’t as popular as they once were, top 10 lists have been popular ever since Moses came down from the mount with his top 10 list of “thou shalt nots.” Magazines like Rolling Stone will always have top 500 playlists and AFI will always publish top 100 movies lists.
 
 
However, as a responsible publisher, marketer, and SEO with an eye for evergreen content, there are more responsible and better long-term URL options you can ...

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If you are a small business owner, you should really consider blogging. Why blog? Well before you groan, throw your hands over your face, and tell me you really don’t like to write, don’t have time to write, or any other excuse, just listen to why.
Here are nine really good reasons why you should blog.
 
 
FIRST, blogs increase the chance that you’ll show up in search results. When you write a blog post, you put more words ...

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It’s an incredibly exciting thing to see something you’ve created go viral. It means people find it so important that they’re sharing it with anyone who’ll listen.
It means you’ll be enjoying an unprecedented influx of traffic, and that both your name and the brand you represent will be – if only for a brief moment – known across the web.
Is that always a good thing, though?
Maybe not. What happens if you go viral for all the wrong ...

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Before I start telling you about these SEO mistakes, let’s take a look on what has happened in SEO world in recent months:-

On October 17, 2014 Google rolled out Penguin 3.0 (The algorithm penalizing websites with spam backlinks)
On September 23, 2014 Google refreshed Panda 4.0 (The algorithm penalizing websites with spam & low quality content)

Google is regularly warning webmasters and website owner that they should not spam to get higher ranks and traffic. Above mentioned ...

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Dear RSS Ground Users!
 
RSS Ground team would like to thank all community members for being the live engine of the service all this long. We hope it is the same pleasure for you to use our RSS tools as it is pleasure for us to develop them.
 
We would like to use the opportunity of a Thanksgiving holiday to express our gratitude of being with us all that long by adding two new generators to our RSS ...

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We all know the mantra, “Content is King”. It’s been drummed into our subconscious.
If we just focus on creating great content, online traffic will stampede to our virtual doors. Right?
While creating engaging and informative content is definitely important, it is only part of the equation.
If you want to reap the maximum benefits from that content, you need to know how to promote it.
Too often content promotion gets overlooked by marketers, but it is as essential as ...

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Dear Friends,
Our team would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We thank you for using our RSS tools and looking forward to meet you all next year full of energy and espiration!
 
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Have great holidays! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Content creation is a process that requires a significant investment of resources. Because it takes a lot of work to produce quality content for the web, it’s important to get as much mileage as possible out of every post or page your Omaha business publishes. In order to accomplish that goal, it’s important to ensure that there aren’t any issues with your website design that are sending visitors away before they have a chance to see just how good the ...

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When thinking about SEO, it’s tempting to concentrate on what’s occurring behind-the-scenes and neglect better ways to increase exposure. Whether you’re directly dealing with SEO or looking to compliment your existing SEO presence with tactics for additional exposure, it’s important to continually focus on developing and growing your digital marketing strategy.
 
On-Page vs. Off-Page SEO Factors
When you look at SEO, it’s important to understand the difference between on-page and off-page factors. While these two groups work together ...

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Online advertisers, logged off organizations, mentors, and creators are listening to all the more habitually about the need to guarantee that you have a mobile-friendly site plan. Basically, this implies that your site should naturally and powerfully conform to whichever gadget is being utilized to view the site, whether this is a cell phone, a tablet, or a desktop PC. Alterably conforming implies that the peruser does not need to make conformities physically; its done naturally.
A variable influencing this ...

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When you’re trying to reach a particular audience, your success depends on how thoroughly you’re able to target them.
It also depends on your market positioning and segmentation, but to achieve both of those you need, first and foremost, to know who your ideal buyer is – and how to reach him (or her).
These 6 steps will give you a clear road map for how to target your ideal buyer.
Identify Your Customer Profile
This is more complex ...

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If you work in the search engine optimization sector, you’ve probably heard too many times that ‘link-building is dead’. Well, yes and no.
Yes, because links alone won’t get you far these days. Search engines are constantly updating their algorithm; weeding out unnatural links or penalizing sites with spammy content. In fact, Google’s recent Phantom Update affected both small and large websites as it targeted thin, overused, and duplicated content.
No, because links are still the lifeblood of SEO and ...

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You setup your social media accounts, maybe Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, but it’s been a few weeks or even years since you’ve touched the accounts. This happens far too often with small businesses. The problem is that even when stores implement decent social strategies it’s tough to improve sales, or at least track whether sales are occurring through social media.
Around 85 percent of social/ecommerce orders come from Facebook.
What does this say? Well, to start, this is talking about ...

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You can grow your blog in two ways:

1. Get more traffic.
2. Do more with the traffic you have.
In my opinion, you should do both even though most people focus on the first option.
Those bloggers don’t realize they’re losing a large chunk of their traffic before it even has a chance to convert.
One of the best ways to see how well you’re using your traffic is to look at your bounce rate.
The average bounce ...

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It doesn’t seem like it would be all that difficult, to rank for your name in Google or any of the other search engines, but it can be a lot harder than you think. You and your business could pop up—but it might not.
Ranking highly in Google is difficult, even when it’s your own name. You might think your name is pretty special, but with over 7 billion people in the world — it’s very likely a few ...

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Why should you bother a lot about traffic from Social Media?
Based on Statista data, revealed in March 2015, these are the approximate numbers of active users in different social media networks:

Facebook – 1,415,000,000
LinkedIn – 347,000,000
Google+ – 300,000,000
Twitter – 288,000,000

Tremendous numbers! Just to compare: The population of USA is something like 300,000,000. And all of these social media users are there, just on the other side of your screen!
There was ...

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Remember the age old adage, keep your friends close but, your enemies closer? In the world of digital marketing and search engine optimization, there is no one closer to you in search rankings than your competitors. So why do business’ often overlook this step and jump right to building strategy? There is a wealth of information and competitive advantage that can be gained from finding and analyzing your competitors. When it comes to a thorough search engine optimization ...

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The UK's Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has warned that the Premier League does not yet have the "green light" to resume but restated the government's hope that the season can be completed.

Plans have been announced by the Golf Union of Ireland and the Irish Ladies Golf Union for the return of recreational golf in Ireland, albeit on a restricted basis.

Katie Taylor has set her sights on three huge fights that would cement her status as the best ever women's boxer.

The US Women's soccer team have filed to appeal a district court decision handed down last week that dismissed their claims for equal pay.

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

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

RepeatServer.com now allows you to update your RSS feeds, etc, from your smart phones and tablets

We have added new webpages displaying some of Repeat Signage's customer success stories by application: business, education, healthcare and leisure industry.

Since its launch in 2009, Repeat Signage digital signage software is now in daily use in 31 countries across a wide variety of applications and vertical markets. A big thank you to all our customers and reseller partners.

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

Repeat Signage is user-friendly, flexible digital signage software for Windows. Ideal for the leisure, tourism and hospitality industry, you can insert your pictures, text, real-time, RSS news feeds and other media to create dynamic and engaging digital signage presentations. Digital signage allows your visitors to learn more about your facilities, news of current and forthcoming attractions, helping to encourage return visits.

Connacht GAA president Gerry McGovern believes the risks of a return to playing action this year are too high and has instead urged the Association to focus completely on the 2021 All-Ireland Championships.

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.

GAA officials are still planning to hold club and inter-county championships in 2020, but have ruled out any inter-county games before October and say there is a lack of appetite for matches with no spectators.

Former Offaly hurler Paddy Molloy has died aged 86.

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.

Club Players Association chairman Micheál Briody accepts that counties will have to greatly alter the structure of club competitions if a window for playing does become available later this year.

Michael Glennon chats to Kilkenny legend Tommy Walsh about the motivation of boss Brian Cody, whose side were due to take on Dublin in the first round of the Leinster SHC round-robin on Sunday.

The adventure of putting together the hurling All-Star team of the Sunday Game era has now reached the half-forward line. Michael Duignan and Anthony Daly help us delve through the many options on the RTÉ GAA Podcast.

Clare hurler Tony Kelly tells RTÉ2fm's Game On that he is open to the idea of an All-Ireland Championship in the winter months.

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.

Former Mayo boss Frank Browne - now coaching Galway - believes it's time for those involved in Mayo football to bury the hatchet for the good of the players

The Offaly football manager John Maughan says he has cannot see the inter-county Championship being played this year.

Pat Spillane believes the GAA "kicked the can" down the road with its most recent statement regarding the 2020 championships, while Anthony Daly argues the longer-term view was the correct call.