In the spring of 1846, the Donner Party began their trek from Missouri to California. Like other pioneer families from the East and Midwest who embraced the idea of Manifest Destiny and looked to economic opportunities in the West, the Donner Party was seeking a better life for anyone who committed to the journey. As we now know, history has recorded the Donner Party’s harrowing and tragic efforts to reach the promised land.
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Austin ISD parent-teacher associations will no longer be allowed to fund staff positions at their schools, a decision met with mixed reactions across the broadly diverse urban school district. Some campus communities felt bruised by the district s haphazard communication and speedy timeline for change at their schools, while other stakeholders were incredulous that AISD ever allowed such a practice in the first place.
The decision impacts 31 staff positions at a dozen elementary schools, almost all of which are whiter and wealthier than the district as a whole. A May 3 letter to principals from district leaders outlining the changes, months after AISD put in place new
A YOUNG child s battle with cancer has inspired a council chairman to donate £1,000 to charity. Cllr Nigel Taylor, who is more used to doing battle with councillors at Somerset County Council, was moved by the touching story of Emilia-Mae s successful fight against the disease. He learned about the toddler s bravery at the age of just eighteen months during a chance chat with her dad, County Hall communications office Michael Wallis. Cllr Taylor immediately pledged £1,000 from the Chairman s Charitable Fund to Musgrove Leukaemic Group, to benefit local children undergoing treatment for the disease. Emilia-Mae, was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in 2012 – a cancer that she was seventeen times more likely to develop than most children as she was born with Down Syndrome.
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