[ad_1] New York state and local health officials have expressed concern over a spike in opioid-related overdoses in parts of central New York and warned that deaths could spread to other parts of the state. I’m here. The rising death toll is believed to be linked to fentanyl, a powerful opioid. Fentanyl is often added ...

[ad_1] As the new school year begins, a nationwide teacher shortage disrupts the K-12 school district and lengthens job postings. The president of the National Education Association has called classroom teacher shortages “five crises.” Some students are returning to full-time, face-to-face learning, often hundreds of miles away, just to find an instructor teaching through a ...

[ad_1] Five years ago, lawmakers in Illinois passed a bill that would overhaul the way the state’s public schools are funded. The evidence-based funding formula is designed to calculate each district’s actual cost of providing the type of education the state expects, and to incrementally increase the percentage of that cost that the state pays. ...

[ad_1] This summer, Gatton Academy student Brody Johnson completed his Undergraduate Research and Education Program (UREP) at Wood Hudson Cancer Institute. As one of his 11 students selected to participate in the program, Johnson said, “What can we do to effectively study small or rare populations relevant to cancer research?” Can we develop a method?” ...

[ad_1] Sharp disagreement over whether to expand Medicaid in Georgia – a state with one of the highest uninsured rates in the country – was one of the defining issues in the governor’s race in 2018. Four years later, the long-simmering debate over whether the state should expand the public insurance program is still sizzling. ...

[ad_1] Ever since mankind was able to imagine outer space, one simple fear has haunted our minds. What if something big fell from the sky and wiped it all out? No aliens to fight, no evil masterminds, no failed scientific experiments. A mere earth, a million tons of space rock, and the end of all ...

[ad_1] Bozeman Health had a problem. Officials in a health system with hospitals and clinics in southwestern Montana had a problem that had been building for months. We survived the hardest test of the Covid-19 pandemic, but lost employees and paid a premium for traveling workers to fill vacancies. Inflation also pushed up operating costs. ...

[ad_1] Sixteen-year-old “Jeremy” struggles. Before the pandemic, he was an extrovert in his eighth grade and had his GPA near perfect with his friend group of 15 to 20. Schools were then closed and he spent all of his ninth grade at his home. Jeremy is a hands-on learner who finds it difficult to pay ...