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Proposed Minnesota education budget cuts private school funding
2025-05-05 20:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
MINNEAPOLIS Private schools are raising the alarm over Gov. Tim Walzs proposed education budget, which cuts funding for nonpublic school transportation and educational materials in 2026.Walzs updated budget proposal, released March 21, eliminates nonpublic pupil education aid estimated to cost $52.5 million in 2026-27 and $56.4 million in 2028-29 and nonpublic pupil transportation aid budgeted at $56.2 million for 2026-7 and $58.4 million for 2028-29. ADVERTISEMENT Nonpublic pupil aid, created in 1969, helps private schools throughout the state pay for textbooks, standardized tests, health services, guidance counselors and other education materials. Walzs proposed budget also ends the nonpublic pupil transportation aid, which requires school districts to help transport private school kids if the private school requests it.Cutting both would save the state over $100 million, according to a Minnesota Department of Education presentation. These cuts to private school funding co...
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'Pick a finger or toe' assault man gets sentence suspended after brutal attacks
2025-05-05 16:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
A man who spent 20 months in jail after "disgusting, disturbing and obnoxious" attacks on two ex-girlfriends had the rest of a combined seven-year sentence suspended today. Ben Curry, 24, beat and threatened a former partner at knifepoint "to pick a finger or a toe" and subjected another ex-girlfriend to a 40-minute attack. Judge Keenan Johnson imposed consecutive sentences totalling seven years but backdated them to August 2023 when Curry went into custody, with the rest of the term suspended. Judge Johnson was furnished with a forensic psychological assessment of Curry. Mullingar Circuit Criminal Court heard today that it showed he consistently and positively engaged with the psychologist whose report gave a graphic account of his "horrific" and traumatic childhood difficulties. It detailed the work he had undergone to regulate his emotional responses and stay away from trouble. Curry must not re-offend for the next five years, obtain training or employment, stay off alcohol and illi...
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Naira-For-Crude Sale To Dangote, Other Urgent Tasks Before New NNPCL Board
2025-05-05 16:45:04| Spiritual Career Counseling
Wednesdays overhaul of Nigerias state-run oil company NNPCL did not come as a surprise to keen observers who have vociferously pressed for reforms in the upstream and downstream sectors after the epochal birthing of the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021, and the subsequent commercialisation of the state-run oil company in July 2022.Advertisement Having given the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) about two years to ramp up performance, President Bola Tinubu sacked all the Board members of the company on April 2, 2025.Presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga was unequivocal with the reasons for the restructuring, which he said was crucial for enhancing operational efficiency, restoring investor confidence, boosting local content, driving economic growth, and advancing gas commercialisation and diversification.Though some commentators have described the restructuring as long overdue, it is better late than never.Advertisement Significantly, the president removed Mele Kyar...
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