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On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve decided to raise interest rates by 0.75 percent, making it the third super-hike after the ones in June and July.
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The increase is once again intended to combat the high level of inflation being experienced by the U.S. and much of the world.
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The economic projections also predict that unemployment will rise from 3.7 percent, the current level, to 3.8 percent by the end of the year.
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In districts where more than 75 percent of the student body is nonwhite, about 10 percent of teachers resigned or retired last year.
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That's up from 6.5 percent in 2019 and double the rate of districts where 90 percent or more of the students are white.
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More than 800 teachers died of COVID during the first year of the pandemic, and a recent survey found 19 percent of teachers reporting that they suffer from long COVID.
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During remote learning, some students' mental health deteriorated, causing many to act out when they returned to school.
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In what way?
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Which districts are hardest hit?
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The country's struggle to recruit, train, and retain enough good teachers predates COVID.
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When schools closed their doors once the pandemic hit in March 2020, teachers had little time to prepare for a shift to remote learning, and the fits-and-starts reopening of schools over the following year introduced a host of new problems.
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Here's everything you need to know: How big is the problem?
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"I was just drowning."
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Faced with a tighter labor market, many districts are raising base salaries and offering signing and relocation bonuses — up to a whopping $25,000 in one New Mexico school district.
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Some states are loosening eligibility requirements.
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In the 2010s, enrollment in teacher-preparation programs declined by more than a third, with some colleges reporting further double-digit declines since 2020.
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Without major changes, though, the pool of available teachers could continue to shrink, leaving those that remain with ever-ballooning workloads.
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Nationally, the percentage of teachers quitting soared to a record level in July 2020, but in the past year, the "quit rate" has dropped and not all states or districts have shortages.
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"I have never seen it this bad," said Dan Domenech, executive director of the School Superintendents Association.
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At the same time, the struggle to make up for pandemic learning loss increased teachers' workloads, and led to mounting pressure from increasingly antagonistic parents and micromanaging administrators.
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Nearly everywhere, teacher morale has plummeted, with 90 percent polled in January saying they are suffering from burnout.
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Some districts rejected masking requirements and others struggled to enforce them, so coming to work meant daily exposure to COVID.
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Many teachers say they've been pushed past the point of endurance.
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In this politicized climate, some teachers even found their personal lives falling under greater and more hostile scrutiny.
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"Every minute I wasn't with the kids, personally, I was beyond treading water with my mental health," said Bethany Collins, who quit in January after eight years as a Los Angeles-area middle school teacher.
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How are local governments coping?
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A 2018 University of Pennsylvania study found that 44 percent of newly minted teachers quit within their first five years on the job.
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Are there more long-term fixes?
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Arizona will now allow current college students to teach.
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"Would we even be thinking about this if it was a pilot?
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Finding ways to reduce the cost of teacher-training programs and the student-debt burden could help make the field more attractive.
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So could support staff to relieve teachers of some non-classroom-related administrative work.
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"In the last two years, I've had to be five teachers," said Nick Clark, who teaches high school in Fort Worth.
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Why are teachers unhappy?
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"It's part of the disrespect that you think that you can just put a body in front of kids."
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Caught in the culture wars In a recent poll, 88 percent of teachers said education was "becoming too politicized" where they teach.
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"Will my students see a happy, successful adult who also happens to be gay, or will they see a broken, stressed, defeated person standing there?"
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In some parts of the country it is serious, and school districts are getting desperate.
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About 5,500 teachers quit Maryland schools in 2022, and Baltimore schools now have about 700 vacancies.
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Why are teachers unhappy?
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asked American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten.
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Or a doctor?"
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A conservative movement to keep potentially divisive topics out of public schools accelerated in 2021, producing laws such as Florida's "Don't say gay" bill, bans on teaching critical race theory, and "curriculum transparency" bills that require teachers to post all their classroom materials online.
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Why are teachers unhappy?
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Why are teachers unhappy?
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In Florida, there are about 8,000 teacher vacancies, and according to the Florida Policy Institute, about 450,000 kids started school last year without a permanent teacher.
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Nearly half of teachers polled in March say they intend to quit, and a recent survey of principals and school district leaders found that 72 percent did not have enough applications for open teaching positions.
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States are finding it hardest to retain staff in poor, rural, and urban districts primarily serving students of color.
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But educators say that teaching is a profession that requires training and experience, so lowering the bar will only diminish the quality of the classroom instruction children receive.
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Or an engineer?
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Willie Carver was named Kentucky's 2022 Teacher of the Year, but the openly gay English and French teacher resigned in June, citing rising homophobia in his district.
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One parent accused him of "grooming" children by running an LGBT student club at his high school.
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"I had to think about what it would be like," he said.
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An epidemic of teacher burnout has many school districts struggling to fill positions.
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Why are teachers unhappy?
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Pennsylvania, Kansas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia also report a crisis in staffing classrooms.
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In states with shortages, it's also far more difficult to find teachers for math, science, and special education classes.
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In Florida, some military veterans are now eligible for temporary teaching certificates even if they haven't completed a bachelor's degree.
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"The extra load and duties make coming back less and less appealing every year."
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Houston has about 900 teacher vacancies going into this school year, and to compensate for too few teachers, districts in Texas and rural Missouri are switching to four-day weeks.
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The pandemic and politics are two primary factors.
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In a 2020-21 American Psychological Association survey, 14 percent of teachers reported being physically attacked by students, and a third reported being threatened or harassed.
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Why are teachers unhappy?
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Still, many of the nation's 3.1 million public-school teachers have become deeply disenchanted with the profession.
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The suit names Trump, the Trump Organization, and three of Trump's children — Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump — and claims they have fraudulently overvalued their assets by billions of dollars.
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James' lawsuit seeks $250 million in disgorgement from the defendants as well as to bar the Trump Organization from engaging in New York commercial real estate acquisitions for five years.
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New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump for fraud.
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The suit is the result of James' years-long investigation into Trump's real estate dealings, Bloomberg reports, and the formal complaint states that the fraudulent activities were "approved at the highest levels of the Trump Organization — including by Mr. Trump himself."
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The latest development comes just a week after James refused to settle with Trump's lawyers, The New York Times reports.
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James has filed a criminal referral to federal prosecutors and a separate tax fraud referral to the IRS along with the lawsuit, Politico reports.
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Trump and his children would also not be allowed to serve as any corporate officers or directors in the state.
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The former president has faced many legal struggles, including his Mar-a-Lago property being searched by the FBI and his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection being investigated by a House select committee.
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The former president has continued to deny wrongdoing, accusing James of being politically motivated, CNBC reports.
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The suit filed is a civil suit; however, criminal charges may come out of it as well.
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And I really mean impressive.
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In 2019, Feeding Our Future distributed $3.4 million in taxpayer food aid funds to the non-profits it was sponsoring, In 2020, that shot up to $42 million and then up to $197 million in 2021.
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According to the FBI, the money being stolen wasn’t used to feed children, it went into various shell companies and fronts operated by Somalis and was used to buy everything from a Porsche to African properties.
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The FBI warrants note that, “Qamar Ahmed Hassan wrote approximately $27,000 in checks from S&S Catering bank accounts… to Amax Travel, a travel agency that specializes in Haji travel packages.”
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That’s a lot of children.
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I covered this story back in the winter, relying on the important work of local reporters like Bill Glahn at the American Experiment.
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When the money was denied, Feeding Our Future complained that “minority-owned businesses serving almost exclusively economically disadvantaged children of color” were being denied the right to serve “culturally relevant foods” to “youth” during a “national emergency”.
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There’s an Ilhan Omar angle and a Mecca angle.
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A key element in the fraud was crying racism.
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The Feds staked out various Feeding Our Future meal sites and found no one at the places that were supposed to be feeding 50,000 children.
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Safari Restaurant, which boasts “traditional Somali cuisine” like french fries and safari chicken quesadilla, where Rep. Ilhan Omar had celebrated her victory party, applied to participate in the Federal Child Nutrition program.
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Documents note that the Somali eatery claimed to be serving a comparable number of meals to “the entire St. Paul public school district.”
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The Department of Justice announced today federal criminal charges against 47 defendants for their alleged roles in a $250 million fraud scheme that exploited a federally-funded child nutrition program during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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There’s currently no evidence of a direct question, but some serious scrutiny may be merited.
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According to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, S&S Catering led by Qamar Ahmed Hassan received $13.8 million in federal funds.
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There are some frauds so massively insane that Americans won’t do them.
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Crying racism worked and at its peak, Safari claimed to be feeding 6,000 children a day.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar has made government meals for children into one of her signature issues.
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Glahn in American Experiment found that, “Feeding Our Future had 312 authorized sites for the program, approved for a maximum of 126,000 children.” That’s a lot of hungry Somali kids.
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Now the official federal indictments of 47 people are in: 46 of them Somalis.
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These were impressive numbers for a charity that seemed to focus on Somalis in Minnesota.
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Safari was just one of the many providers who claimed to be feeding thousands of children.
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Some politicians came forward to back them up.
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The accused Somalis donated to a variety of politicians, including Rep. Ilhan Omar, State Senator Omar Fateh, Shukri Olow, running for state representative, State Rep. Hodan Hassan, a Keith Ellison crony, and others.
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The story is mindblowing for the sheer scale of the fraud.
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And there are questions as to what extent politicians, especially those catering to Somalis, helped enable it.
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