What it means to be ‘ready’ for kindergarten in California

While there’s growing interest in assessing school readiness, education experts differ on what to measure and how. Here's ...

New Book Offers Canadian Business Owners Step-by-Step Roadmap to Maximize Value and Secure Their Legacy

With over $2 trillion in Canadian business assets expected to change hands in the next decade and only 9% of owners having a ...
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Major step forward in the campaign for children to 'learn through play' until year 2 – as MPs debate petition backed by more than 100,000 parents

Campaigners want classrooms to match how young children actually learn, not ones that force them to grow up too fast. MPs have debated extending learning through play into Year 1 and 2 at primary ...
Opinion

Op-Ed: Idaho joins the nation’s first federal education choice tax credit scholarship program

Idaho has taken a significant step forward in expanding educational opportunity by joining the nation’s first federal education choice tax credit scholarship program. Last week, Gov. Brad Little reinf ...
The Herald News

First Step Inn emergency overnight shelter open as temperatures drop

FALL RIVER — With cold temperatures predicted to drop into the single digits overnight, the city’s Extreme Cold Weather Temporary Shelter is now open. First Step Inn, in collaboration with the Fall ...
Reuters

Palestinian foreign minister says UN vote is 'first step towards peace'

MANILA, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Palestinian Foreign Minister Varsen Aghabekian Shahin said on Tuesday the U.N. Security Council's adoption of a resolution endorsing U.S. President Donald Trump's plan to ...
The Daily Signal

Supreme Court Considers Whether the First Step Act Allows Reduction in Criminal Sentences

Fred Lucas is chief news correspondent and manager of the Investigative Reporting Project for The Daily Signal. He is the author of “The Myth of Voter Suppression: The Left’s Assault on Clean ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

First Step Detox Center to close as funding runs dry in county's 2026 budget. Here's why

An addiction treatment center in Milwaukee, First Step Community Recovery Center, will close at the end of 2025. The closure is due to funding cuts in the 2026 Milwaukee County budget, which was ...
NPR

Senators take first step toward reopening the government after historic shutdown

A bipartisan group of Senate Democrats and Republicans reached a deal to reopen the government after the longest shutdown in U.S. history, voting on the first procedural step on the measure. The ...
BizTimes

First Step Community Recovery Center in Milwaukee to close

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. After losing Milwaukee County Department of Health and Human ...
Forbes

Bureau Of Prisons Makes Changes To First Step Act Calc

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 01: Alice Marie Johnson, who had her sentence commuted by U.S. President Donald Trump (L) after serving 21 years in prison for cocaine trafficking, thanks the press during a ...
CBS News

First Step Gala raising awareness for domestic violence and dire need for funding

The story of Gabby Petito, the 22-year-old who was killed by her fiancé while traveling in 2021, once again sent the topic of domestic violence into the national spotlight. Petito's stepfather is ...