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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.	OBJ	false
The increase is once again intended to combat the high level of inflation being experienced by the U.S. and much of the world.	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
In districts where more than 75 percent of the student body is nonwhite, about 10 percent of teachers resigned or retired last year.	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
During remote learning, some students' mental health deteriorated, causing many to act out when they returned to school.	OBJ	false
In what way?	OBJ	false
Which districts are hardest hit?	OBJ	false
The country's struggle to recruit, train, and retain enough good teachers predates COVID.	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
Here's everything you need to know: How big is the problem?	SUBJ	false
"I was just drowning."	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
Some states are loosening eligibility requirements.	OBJ	false
In the 2010s, enrollment in teacher-preparation programs declined by more than a third, with some colleges reporting further double-digit declines since 2020.	OBJ	false
Without major changes, though, the pool of available teachers could continue to shrink, leaving those that remain with ever-ballooning workloads.	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
"I have never seen it this bad," said Dan Domenech, executive director of the School Superintendents Association.	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
Nearly everywhere, teacher morale has plummeted, with 90 percent polled in January saying they are suffering from burnout.	OBJ	false
Some districts rejected masking requirements and others struggled to enforce them, so coming to work meant daily exposure to COVID.	OBJ	false
Many teachers say they've been pushed past the point of endurance.	OBJ	false
In this politicized climate, some teachers even found their personal lives falling under greater and more hostile scrutiny.	OBJ	false
"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.	OBJ	false
How are local governments coping?	OBJ	false
A 2018 University of Pennsylvania study found that 44 percent of newly minted teachers quit within their first five years on the job.	OBJ	false
Are there more long-term fixes?	OBJ	false
Arizona will now allow current college students to teach.	OBJ	false
"Would we even be thinking about this if it was a pilot?	OBJ	false
Finding ways to reduce the cost of teacher-training programs and the student-debt burden could help make the field more attractive.	OBJ	false
So could support staff to relieve teachers of some non-classroom-related administrative work.	OBJ	false
"In the last two years, I've had to be five teachers," said Nick Clark, who teaches high school in Fort Worth.	OBJ	false
Why are teachers unhappy?	OBJ	false
"It's part of the disrespect that you think that you can just put a body in front of kids."	OBJ	false
Caught in the culture wars In a recent poll, 88 percent of teachers said education was "becoming too politicized" where they teach.	OBJ	false
"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?"	OBJ	false
In some parts of the country it is serious, and school districts are getting desperate.	OBJ	false
About 5,500 teachers quit Maryland schools in 2022, and Baltimore schools now have about 700 vacancies.	OBJ	false
Why are teachers unhappy?	OBJ	false
asked American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten.	OBJ	false
Or a doctor?"	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
Why are teachers unhappy?	OBJ	false
Why are teachers unhappy?	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
States are finding it hardest to retain staff in poor, rural, and urban districts primarily serving students of color.	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
Or an engineer?	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
One parent accused him of "grooming" children by running an LGBT student club at his high school.	OBJ	false
"I had to think about what it would be like," he said.	OBJ	false
An epidemic of teacher burnout has many school districts struggling to fill positions.	OBJ	false
Why are teachers unhappy?	OBJ	false
Pennsylvania, Kansas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia also report a crisis in staffing classrooms.	OBJ	false
In states with shortages, it's also far more difficult to find teachers for math, science, and special education classes.	OBJ	false
In Florida, some military veterans are now eligible for temporary teaching certificates even if they haven't completed a bachelor's degree.	OBJ	false
"The extra load and duties make coming back less and less appealing every year."	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
The pandemic and politics are two primary factors.	SUBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
Why are teachers unhappy?	OBJ	false
Still, many of the nation's 3.1 million public-school teachers have become deeply disenchanted with the profession.	SUBJ	true
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.	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump for fraud.	OBJ	false
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."	OBJ	false
The latest development comes just a week after James refused to settle with Trump's lawyers, The New York Times reports.	OBJ	false
James has filed a criminal referral to federal prosecutors and a separate tax fraud referral to the IRS along with the lawsuit, Politico reports.	OBJ	false
Trump and his children would also not be allowed to serve as any corporate officers or directors in the state.	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
The former president has continued to deny wrongdoing, accusing James of being politically motivated, CNBC reports.	OBJ	false
The suit filed is a civil suit; however, criminal charges may come out of it as well.	OBJ	false
And I really mean impressive.	SUBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
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.”	OBJ	false
That’s a lot of children.	OBJ	false
I covered this story back in the winter, relying on the important work of local reporters like Bill Glahn at the American Experiment.	OBJ	false
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”.	OBJ	false
There’s an Ilhan Omar angle and a Mecca angle.	OBJ	false
A key element in the fraud was crying racism.	SUBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
Documents note that the Somali eatery claimed to be serving a comparable number of meals to “the entire St. Paul public school district.”	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
There’s currently no evidence of a direct question, but some serious scrutiny may be merited.	SUBJ	false
According to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, S&S Catering led by Qamar Ahmed Hassan received $13.8 million in federal funds.	OBJ	false
There are some frauds so massively insane that Americans won’t do them.	SUBJ	false
Crying racism worked and at its peak, Safari claimed to be feeding 6,000 children a day.	OBJ	false
Rep. Ilhan Omar has made government meals for children into one of her signature issues.	OBJ	false
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.	SUBJ	false
Now the official federal indictments of 47 people are in: 46 of them Somalis.	OBJ	false
These were impressive numbers for a charity that seemed to focus on Somalis in Minnesota.	SUBJ	false
Safari was just one of the many providers who claimed to be feeding thousands of children.	OBJ	false
Some politicians came forward to back them up.	OBJ	false
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.	OBJ	false
The story is mindblowing for the sheer scale of the fraud.	SUBJ	true
And there are questions as to what extent politicians, especially those catering to Somalis, helped enable it.	OBJ	true

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.

OBJ

false

The increase is once again intended to combat the high level of inflation being experienced by the U.S. and much of the world.

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

In districts where more than 75 percent of the student body is nonwhite, about 10 percent of teachers resigned or retired last year.

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

During remote learning, some students' mental health deteriorated, causing many to act out when they returned to school.

OBJ

false

In what way?

OBJ

false

Which districts are hardest hit?

OBJ

false

The country's struggle to recruit, train, and retain enough good teachers predates COVID.

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

Here's everything you need to know: How big is the problem?

SUBJ

false

"I was just drowning."

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

Some states are loosening eligibility requirements.

OBJ

false

In the 2010s, enrollment in teacher-preparation programs declined by more than a third, with some colleges reporting further double-digit declines since 2020.

OBJ

false

Without major changes, though, the pool of available teachers could continue to shrink, leaving those that remain with ever-ballooning workloads.

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

"I have never seen it this bad," said Dan Domenech, executive director of the School Superintendents Association.

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

Nearly everywhere, teacher morale has plummeted, with 90 percent polled in January saying they are suffering from burnout.

OBJ

false

Some districts rejected masking requirements and others struggled to enforce them, so coming to work meant daily exposure to COVID.

OBJ

false

Many teachers say they've been pushed past the point of endurance.

OBJ

false

In this politicized climate, some teachers even found their personal lives falling under greater and more hostile scrutiny.

OBJ

false

"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.

OBJ

false

How are local governments coping?

OBJ

false

A 2018 University of Pennsylvania study found that 44 percent of newly minted teachers quit within their first five years on the job.

OBJ

false

Are there more long-term fixes?

OBJ

false

Arizona will now allow current college students to teach.

OBJ

false

"Would we even be thinking about this if it was a pilot?

OBJ

false

Finding ways to reduce the cost of teacher-training programs and the student-debt burden could help make the field more attractive.

OBJ

false

So could support staff to relieve teachers of some non-classroom-related administrative work.

OBJ

false

"In the last two years, I've had to be five teachers," said Nick Clark, who teaches high school in Fort Worth.

OBJ

false

Why are teachers unhappy?

OBJ

false

"It's part of the disrespect that you think that you can just put a body in front of kids."

OBJ

false

Caught in the culture wars In a recent poll, 88 percent of teachers said education was "becoming too politicized" where they teach.

OBJ

false

"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?"

OBJ

false

In some parts of the country it is serious, and school districts are getting desperate.

OBJ

false

About 5,500 teachers quit Maryland schools in 2022, and Baltimore schools now have about 700 vacancies.

OBJ

false

Why are teachers unhappy?

OBJ

false

asked American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten.

OBJ

false

Or a doctor?"

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

Why are teachers unhappy?

OBJ

false

Why are teachers unhappy?

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

States are finding it hardest to retain staff in poor, rural, and urban districts primarily serving students of color.

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

Or an engineer?

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

One parent accused him of "grooming" children by running an LGBT student club at his high school.

OBJ

false

"I had to think about what it would be like," he said.

OBJ

false

An epidemic of teacher burnout has many school districts struggling to fill positions.

OBJ

false

Why are teachers unhappy?

OBJ

false

Pennsylvania, Kansas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia also report a crisis in staffing classrooms.

OBJ

false

In states with shortages, it's also far more difficult to find teachers for math, science, and special education classes.

OBJ

false

In Florida, some military veterans are now eligible for temporary teaching certificates even if they haven't completed a bachelor's degree.

OBJ

false

"The extra load and duties make coming back less and less appealing every year."

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

The pandemic and politics are two primary factors.

SUBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

Why are teachers unhappy?

OBJ

false

Still, many of the nation's 3.1 million public-school teachers have become deeply disenchanted with the profession.

SUBJ

true

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.

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

New York Attorney General Letitia James has filed a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump for fraud.

OBJ

false

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."

OBJ

false

The latest development comes just a week after James refused to settle with Trump's lawyers, The New York Times reports.

OBJ

false

James has filed a criminal referral to federal prosecutors and a separate tax fraud referral to the IRS along with the lawsuit, Politico reports.

OBJ

false

Trump and his children would also not be allowed to serve as any corporate officers or directors in the state.

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

The former president has continued to deny wrongdoing, accusing James of being politically motivated, CNBC reports.

OBJ

false

The suit filed is a civil suit; however, criminal charges may come out of it as well.

OBJ

false

And I really mean impressive.

SUBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

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.”

OBJ

false

That’s a lot of children.

OBJ

false

I covered this story back in the winter, relying on the important work of local reporters like Bill Glahn at the American Experiment.

OBJ

false

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”.

OBJ

false

There’s an Ilhan Omar angle and a Mecca angle.

OBJ

false

A key element in the fraud was crying racism.

SUBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

Documents note that the Somali eatery claimed to be serving a comparable number of meals to “the entire St. Paul public school district.”

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

There’s currently no evidence of a direct question, but some serious scrutiny may be merited.

SUBJ

false

According to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press, S&S Catering led by Qamar Ahmed Hassan received $13.8 million in federal funds.

OBJ

false

There are some frauds so massively insane that Americans won’t do them.

SUBJ

false

Crying racism worked and at its peak, Safari claimed to be feeding 6,000 children a day.

OBJ

false

Rep. Ilhan Omar has made government meals for children into one of her signature issues.

OBJ

false

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.

SUBJ

false

Now the official federal indictments of 47 people are in: 46 of them Somalis.

OBJ

false

These were impressive numbers for a charity that seemed to focus on Somalis in Minnesota.

SUBJ

false

Safari was just one of the many providers who claimed to be feeding thousands of children.

OBJ

false

Some politicians came forward to back them up.

OBJ

false

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.

OBJ

false

The story is mindblowing for the sheer scale of the fraud.

SUBJ

true

And there are questions as to what extent politicians, especially those catering to Somalis, helped enable it.

OBJ

true