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SC education leader wants more summer school money

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4 years ago

May 26, 2020

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina’s top education official wanted $115 million for summer school programs to get some of the state’s most vulnerable students back on track after missing at least 10 weeks of in-person classes because of the coronavirus.

But Accelerate SC, the state’s special reopening committee, only recommended about 10% of that from the $1.9 billion of COVID-19 relief the federal government is giving the state.

So state Education Superintendent Molly Spearman is cutting her ambitious plans while also planning to go above their heads to the governor and ultimately the General Assembly to see if they will set aside more money before voting on the final plan to spend the pandemic money next month.

The questions over education spending simmered Monday as the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control announced 90 new coronavirus cases and five additional deaths. South Carolina has recorded 440 confirmed deaths and more than 10,000 confirmed infections.

The current funding is enough to provide one week of summer school to help special education students and younger elementary students struggling to read, education officials said.

At a special meeting Thursday of educators making plans to reopen public schools in the fall, Spearman called her discussions with Accelerate SC members a “classic chicken or the egg” problem. They asked her how many students she wanted in summer school. She said that was impossible without knowing how much money she would have to spend.

Spearman’s group also discussed other fall plans. She would like to get a full-time nurse in every school, saying in the new COVID-19 world, it is just as important as having a police officer. Officials are trying to determine how many more nurses would have to be hired, estimating to cost at up to $15 million.

Other committee members recommended a mental health team of counselors, teachers, administrators and outside therapists to check on students who might have had difficulties during the school shutdown.

“The main challenge in reopening for summer programs is the same we’re going to have in the fall and that is parents, students and staff feeling it’s safe to come back to school,” said Alan Walters, state School Board member who is also Executive Director of Safety and Risk Management for the Georgetown County School District.

The committee also heard a presentation from a focus group of teachers arranged by the state Education Department.

They said safety was their first priority, followed by getting their students caught up. They all wanted fewer standardized tests next school year to increase instruction time and prevent unfair comparisons after the pandemic chaos.

The focus group also were skeptical about proposals to have smaller groups of children in classrooms while the rest of the class learns online, rotating the groups either daily or weekly.

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Amit Shah Viral Video: Delhi Police Special Cell Lodged An FIR Over Doctored Clips On Reservation Issue

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4 hours ago

April 30, 2024

Manoj Nair

The Delhi Police Special Cell filed an FIR on Sunday after receiving a written complaint from Home Minister Amit Shah stating that a doctored article featuring him regarding the reservation issue is being circulated on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

The Delhi police have registered the FIR under sections 153, 153A, 465, 469, 171G, and 66C of the IT Act, and arrests are expected to take place nationwide.

The Ministry of Home Affairs stated in a written complaint that it has discovered doctored videos circulated by Facebook and Twitter users. The complaint also mentioned that a report containing details of links and social media handles, which are the sources of these videos, was attached. The case is being investigated by the Intelligence Fusion and Strategic Operations (IFSO) of the Delhi Police Special Cell.

Amit Shah, during a public meeting on April 23 at the Vijaya Sankalp Sabha in Telangana, stated that the BJP will repeal the unconstitutional Muslim reservation when it comes to power in Telangana.

Home Minister Amit Shah said,

“I want to say this: if the BJP forms a government, then this unconstitutional Muslim reservation will be abolished. These rights belong to SC, ST, and OBC, and they will be given to them by abolishing Muslim reservation.”

The BJP alleged that the video was altered to show Shah promising to scrap reservations for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. The BJP stated that the original video showed Amit Shah discussing the removal of the four percent “unconstitutional” reservation for Muslims in Telangana.

The BJP’s complaint said,

“Union Home Minister Amit Shah Ji did not deliver any word against the reservation for Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), and Other Backward Classes (OBCs), and tampering of the original speech was done by the social media activists of the Congress party for their political gains and to cause immeasurable damage to the BJP in the forthcoming elections in Andhra Pradesh and throughout India.”

BJP spokesperson Amit Malviya alleged that the Congress is spreading the doctored video, which has the potential to cause widespread violence in the country. Mr. Shah had talked about whether the unconstitutional reservation on the basis of religion would reduce the share of the SCs/STs and OBCs.

Also Read: Amit Shah confirms BJP will not eliminate reservation laws

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Check Out TS EAMCET Admit Card 2024 Release Date & Details

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1 day ago

April 29, 2024

James Oliver

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad (JNTUH) will release the TS EAMCET Admit Card 2024 on the 29th of April, 2024. The admit card of TS EAMCET will be available on the official website and the candidates will be able to download it with the help of their credentials such as their registration number, date of birth, and qualifying exam hall ticket number. The TS EAMCET hall ticket will include various details about the candidates such as the location of the exam center, the date & time of the exam, etc. Furthermore, the authority will be issuing two separate hall tickets to the candidates who have applied for the Engineering (E) and Agriculture & Medical (AM) streams.

One must note that the admit card of TS EAMCET 2024 will be available in an online mode only. The applicant will have to carry their admit card to their exam center along with their valid photo ID proof. Moreover, the candidates must make sure to double-check all the details mentioned in the TS EAMCET admit card 2024. The complete details about TS EAMCET Hall Ticket 2024 are mentioned below.

TS EAMCET Admit Card 2024 Important Dates

The applicants of the TS EAMCET 2024 exam should be up to date with the entire schedule related to the hall ticket of TS EAMCET. The official dates have been announced by the authority on its official website. The schedule TS EAMCET Admit Card 2024 is mentioned in the table below:-

Events	Dates
TS EAMCET 2024 Admit Card Release Date	29th April, 2024
TS EAMCET Exam 2024	May 7 and 8, 2024 for the Agriculture and Pharmacy streamMay 9 to 11, 2024 for the Engineering stream

Steps to Download TS EAMCET Hall Ticket 2024

The candidates will be able to download the TS EAMCET 2024 Admit Card from the official website, 29th April 2024 onwards. Additionally, to download the same, one has to follow a specific procedure that is mentioned below:-

Visit the official website, eamcet.tsche.ac.in.
Click on ‘Download TS EAMCET Hall Ticket’.
Login using your credentials such as your registration number, password, and the qualifying exam hall ticket number.
Take a printout of the TS EAMCET 2024 hall ticket for future reference.

How to Retrieve TS EAMCET 2024 Admit Card Login Password

In case the candidates fail to remember their TS EAMCET Hall Ticket password, then they can retrieve the same by following a procedure. One can refer to the procedure of retrieving TS EAMCET 2024 Admit Card password mentioned below:-

Visit the official website.
Login with the help of the required credentials.
Click on ‘Forget Password’.
Fill in the details.
You will receive an OTP on your registered mobile number.
Fill in the OTP.
Enter a new password in the input field.
Click on ‘Save’.

Details Mentioned in TS EAMCET Admit Card 2024

Various important details related to the candidate as well as the examination will be mentioned on the TS EAMCET Admit Card 2024. One must double-check the same and make sure that all the details are correct. Furthermore, the list of the details mentioned in TS EAMCET Hall Ticket 2024 are mentioned below:-

Name of the candidate
Candidate’s roll number
Photograph & signature of the candidate
Application number
Day, date, and time of the SRMJEEE examination
Full address of the center of the examination
Instructions for the examination day.

Documents Required with TS EAMCET Admit Card 2024

The candidates will have to bring either of the following documents along with their TS EAMCET 2024 Admit Card to the exam center:-

Blue/Black Ball Point Pen
Valid ID Proof (Driving License/ Aadhar Card/ Voter Card/ Any other Govt ID Proof)
A hard copy of TS EAMCET Application Form 2024
Copy of the cast certificate (Only for the reserved category candidates)

Discrepancy in the TS EAMCET 2024 Admit Card

As mentioned before, the candidates must make sure that the details mentioned in the admit card are correct. In case of any discrepancy, the candidates have to contact the authorities immediately. Moreover, below mentioned is the list of the details in the TS EAMCET admit card 2024 that can be corrected:-

Name of the candidate
DOB
Category of the candidate
Gender
Photograph & Signature of the candidate

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“Second Phase Of Lok Sabha Polls: Voter Turnout Falls To 54.85%, High Concern In Uttar Pradesh

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3 days ago

April 27, 2024

Manoj Nair

Second phase of Lok Sabha polls: Voter Turnout Falls to 54.85% Now, low voter turnout a high concern in Uttar Pradesh

Despite a media blitzkrieg by the Election Commission the low voter turnout has become a big talking point in the ongoing multiphase 2024 Lok Sabha elections with the political pundits splitting the semantic hair as to which party is going to gain and which party will lose from this phenomenon.

As per the data released by the Election Commission the second phase of elections in Uttar Pradesh on which voting was conducted in eight parliamentary constituencies the voter turnout was 54.85% which was 7% less than the 62% voting witnessed for the same seats in 2019.

Mathura saw a massive 12% drop from 61.03% in 2019 elections and the voter turnout was 49.29%. Voter turnout was 49.65% representing a drop of % from 55.83% in 2019. Amroha recorded a voter turnout of 64.02% polling, 58.70% in Meerut, 56.62% in Aligarh, 55.97% in Baghpat, 55.79% in Bulandshahr and 53 % in Gautam Buddh Nagar. The first phase of the polling in UP which happened on April 19 saw a voter turnout of 60.25%, as compared to 66.50% voting recorded in 2019.

The low voter turnout has pulled out the political parties from their stupor and booth level workers have been mobilized to get maximum votes polled at the respective booths. The EC has also directed all the electoral returning officers to motivate voters to exercise their franchise. However it seems the voters are not very keen to exercise their franchise rights.

There are many reasons for this lack of empathy among the voters which include the absence of emotive issues among the voters, harvest season in the rural areas, increasing temperatures and also disenchantment among grass roots party workers who are the driving force who motivate the voters to come out and vote in large numbers.

However the low voter turnout has started a slug fest between the political parties with each claiming that it is winning in the elections. The Uttar Pradesh Jal Shakti minister Swatantra Dev Singh and minister of state for cooperation JPS Rathore have proclaimed that voting trends are in favor of BJP.

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav in a post on X, talked about the strange trend but also declared that the voter has voted for the INDIA bloc in large numbers and the votes for BJP has steadily gone down. Uttar Pradesh Congress in-charge Avinash Pande said the voters are excited and it is a vote for a change and the INDIA candidates are winning by a big margin. Rashtriya Lok Dal, a component of NDA chief Jayant Chaudhary, said that the alliance will win 80 seats in UP.

Also Read: Uttar Pradesh Lok Sabha Election Phase 2 : Key seats, candidates in the fray