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In ‘Learning Spaces’ contest, international group designs outdoor learning and play spaces
The “think globally, act locally” catchphrase encourages problem solvers to consider global health and local communities as they work. For “Learning Spaces,” an outdoor classroom design competition, Norwich University thought and looked globally inviting inventive high schoolers from around the world to submit ideas for outdoor spaces for learning and play.
Fifty-seven people from 10 countries on four continents registered for the contest, which ran Nov. 12 through Dec. 13. Forty-two students entered, including students from India, Sri Lanka and Canada. The first-place winner submitted from Poland.
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Funding boosts and hiring pushes are coming for many federal agencies.
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After significant delay and months of negotiation, Congress has passed agreements on a twin set of packages to fund the government and provide coronavirus relief.
The measures will have far-reaching impacts on federal agencies, setting line-by-line funding for every office in government for fiscal 2021. Nearly all federal agencies will see a funding boost in the $1.4 trillion omnibus as a result of a two-year budget agreement President Trump signed in 2019. Lawmakers included some notable provisions for federal operations in the $900 billion COVID-19 relief package as well. They did not include all of the requests made by federal employee advocates, but civil servants will see a small pay bump next year as a result of the deal (read our full coverage of the pay
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Trump names USPS board nominee, potentially solidifying GOP control of mail service
By Jacob Bogage Washington Post,Updated December 16, 2020, 5:33 p.m.
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WASHINGTON â President Trump is expected to nominate a fifth Republican to governing board of the US Postal Service, potentially solidifying GOP control over an agency that has generated intense political interest during the coronavirus pandemic and 2020 election.
Roy Bernardi, a former mayor of Syracuse, N.Y., and a deputy secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the George W. Bush administration, would fill one of three openings on the nine-member board and become the fifth Republican member, if confirmed by the Senate. By law, no more than five members may be of the same party, and traditionally, the party in control of the White House takes over the majority as governorsâ seven-year terms expire.