Schavey Road Elementary School in DeWitt, a town outside Lansing, Michigan, planned the mini-lesson for first-graders in the new few weeks but received an avalanche of threats that terrified its staff.
Heat waves are becoming increasingly common in the Balearic Islands, particularly affecting the first and last two months of the school year (May, June, September and October). Regulations require that workplace temperatures remain within a range of 17 and 27 degrees, although many schools are unable to comply with this. Thermal insulation While a study […]
The annual and interim climate targets will be replaced with a system measuring emissions every five years.
The Scottish government is to scrap its flagship target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 75% by 2030.
MANHATTAN (KSNT) - An elementary school in Manhattan sent an email to parents regarding an incident where the driver of a car near the school was asking kids to get into the vehicle. "I am writing to inform you about an incident that occurred near our school recently, highlighting the importance of discussing stranger danger []
Kingston, Apr 23 (Prensa Latina) The Government of Jamaica announced on Tuesday new measures to store more water, especially at the schools in the country's western region, and help alleviate the worsening of drought. The post Jamaica increases water storage in schools in face of drought first appeared on Prensa Latina.
Ignorance and apathy are not a winning combination when facing down an existential threat. But that’s exactly what Susie Jaramillo, of Encantos Media, found when her team was conducting focus groups with tweens. They were working on their just-released educational video series on climate change, “This Is Cooler.” “There’s misconceptions around what is actually causing […]
DeWitt Public Schools has emailed parents of children at Schavey Road Elementary school (K-1st grade) detailing a lesson that will focus on pronouns - to embrace differences and promote acceptance.
The lack of capacity in the state’s vocational-technical high schools prompted education officials to mandate admission policies that would ensure all students equitable access to education. In 2021, the advocacy group Vocational Education Justice Coalition pushed for the use of lotteries to pick the student body instead of most admissions policies at the time that […]
In today's Morning Brew, we're discussing that one big question you hate to get, plus lessons you learned in school that didn't age well.
There is nothing more important than our environment. My party, campaigners and scientists across the globe have been saying so for years in spite of governments the world over refusing for decades to accept they had to treat the crisis with the urgency it deserves. This must be the turning point and the moment we accelerate the action we are taking to make Scotland net zero. Here and across the UK opportunities have been missed and action delayed to the point that it is simply not possible to...
GENEVA: More than 70 per cent of the global workforce is exposed to risks linked to climate change that cause hundreds of thousands of deaths each year, the International Labour Organization said on Monday, adding governments would need to act as the numbers rise. Workers, especially the world's poorest, are more vulnerable than the general population to the dangers of climate extremes such as heatwaves, droughts, wildfires and hurricanes because they are often the first exposed or exposed for...