LRSD board to consider mask mandate, creation of virtual school
LRSD board to consider mask mandate, creation of virtual school
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Little Rock School District Board will hold a meeting at 5:30 p.m. today to set the agenda for its April 22 meeting, but it will also take votes on two items: extending the mask mandate and creating a permanent virtual school within the district.
The administration recommends the continuation of its universal mask requirement in all LRSD buildings. I think it’s safe to say the board will concur and masks will continue to be required through the end of the school year.
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The Biden administration is seeking to reverse the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) controversial prohibition on the use of Supplemental Environmental Projects (SEPs) in civil settlements imposed by the Trump administration. The prohibition on the DOJ’s discretion to use SEPs in settlements of environmental cases was announced in a memorandum issued by Jeffrey Bossert Clark, Assistant Attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) of the DOJ, on March 12, 2020. AAG Clark had expanded the rationale for disallowing the use of SEPs in new policy memoranda issued in his last days at the DOJ: “Guidance Regarding Newly Promulgated Rule Restricting Third-Party Payments, 28 C.F.R. § 50.28,” January 13, 2021, and “Equitable Mitigation in Civil Environmental Enforcement Cases,” January 12, 2021. AAG Clark’s position on SEPs was also the subject of the DOJ’s regulation promulgated in December 2020, 28 C.F.R. §
Preble Shawnee to cut bussing, charge for athletic participation if May levy fails
By Anthony Baker - abaker@aimmediamidwest.com
Preble Shawnee announced planned reductions in staff and student services if a general operations levy fails to pass in May during their regular monthly meeting Wednesday, Feb. 24.
Anthony Baker | The Register-Herald
CAMDEN Preble Shawnee Board of Education members and administrators announced planned reductions in staff and possible reductions in student services if a general operations levy fails to pass in May during their regular monthly meeting Wednesday, Feb. 24.
The .75-percent levy, which would cost taxpayers in the school district less than a dollar for every $100 of income, was defeated at the polls in 2020. Last renewed in 2010, the measure has been rejected by voters repeatedly since 2015.
Jeff Wood Jeff Wood has been named regional director of laboratories for the Saint Alphonsus Health System. He will be responsible for all aspects of laboratory operations across Idaho and Oregon and play a role in the health system’s COVID-19 testing strategy and operations implementation. He comes to Saint Alphonsus after working as area operations manager for the Idaho and Eastern Washington regions for Numotion in Meridian. He also has more than 20 years’ experience in a variety of roles for Interpath Laboratory in Pendleton, Oregon, leading more than 20 lab managers and 300 employees in Oregon, Idaho, Washington and Alaska. A graduate of Brigham Young University with a degree in medical technology, Wood was raised in Oregon and moved to the Treasure Valley three years ago. Robert Saeid Farivar Also, Dr. Robert Saeid Farivar M.D., Ph.D., the first heart surgeon in the United States to perform a Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement procedure, has been named medical director