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Teachers are spending about $895 a year on their classrooms, according to a national study released by Minneapolis-based Adopt a Classroom. It’s a 49% increase from 2015.
https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/teachers-face-rising-costs-to-k…

Poland lifts border closure with Belarus imposed during Russian-Belarusian drills: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/23/poland-lifts-border-closure-with.html

ClassMind: Scaling Classroom Observation and Instructional Feedback with Multimodal AI
Ao Qu, Yuxi Wen, Jiayi Zhang, Yunge Wen, Yibo Zhao, Alok Prakash, Andr\'es F. Salazar-G\'omez, Paul Pu Liang, Jinhua Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18020

ClassMind: Scaling Classroom Observation and Instructional Feedback with Multimodal AI
Classroom observation -- one of the most effective methods for teacher development -- remains limited due to high costs and a shortage of expert coaches. We present ClassMind, an AI-driven classroom observation system that integrates generative AI and multimodal learning to analyze classroom artifacts (e.g., class recordings) and deliver timely, personalized feedback aligned with pedagogical practices. At its core is AVA-Align, an agent framework that analyzes long classroom video recordings to…

The closure of rural hospitals is a looming problem across all of California.
Two Inland Empire lawmakers are urging state officials to take action to save a hospital in Blythe.
Last spring, Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe was on the brink of closure,
after a series of financial mishaps left it bleeding cash.
In May, the hospital announced that it would not accept new patients, “for the foreseeable future,”
although its emergency room and clinic remained open, th…

This rural hospital almost closed. Emergency state funding is keeping it open, but for how long?
The closure of rural hospitals is a looming problem across California. Two lawmakers are urging the state try and save a hospital in Blythe.

Me encuentro con que el wordpress moderno trae un editor de bloques que me complicó un poco. Por suerte estš disponible el editor clšsico como un plugin. Para lo que necesito basta con la simplicidad del clšsico.
#Wordpress

After News Media Corporation announced the closure of 31 outlets in five states on August 6, a publishing group bought 8 papers in WY and another bought 4 in SD (Sarah Raza/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/rural-newsp…

Closed newspapers in Wyoming and South Dakota are saved as buyers swoop in
A dozen newspapers in Wyoming and South Dakota are set to publish again after buyers stepped in to keep the communities from becoming news deserts where little or no local media remains. This quick action is notable in an industry where, according to a 2024 report from the Medill School of Journalism, more than two newspapers close each week. Illinois-based News Media Corporation had announced the closure of 31 outlets in five states. Within two weeks, new buyers in Wyoming and North Carolina p…

It’s fun seeing other people getting into media you like and getting through the episodes and stuff, seeing them getting closer and closer to the plot twists and stuff

Russia's Planned Tax Hike Would Put Hundreds of Thousands of Small Businesses at Risk of Closure, Lawmaker Warns - The Moscow Times
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/21/russias-planned-tax-hike-would-put-hundreds-of-thousands-of-small-businesses-at-risk-of-closure-lawmaker-warns-a90886

When Trump federalized the D.C. police, he clobbered the idea that the people of the city govern themselves.
That’s what Mussolini did when he centralized Italy’s municipalities.
That’s what fascists do:
crush local authority under the weight of a single man’s will.
https://www.cl…

Trump’s Fascism Isn’t Coming. It’s Here.
America is not drifting toward authoritarianism.

Mussolini had his “years of humiliation,”
Hitler his fabricated Jewish conspiracies,
and Trump has his “phony crime stats.”
Reality is always bent into whatever shape makes the leader look like a savior.
https://mastodon.world/@BrianJopek/115078774526591227#