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TUSD seeks to set new advanced learning enrollment goals https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/032723_agenda_tusd_honors_op/tusd-seeks-set-new-advanced-learning-enrollment-goals/
Tucson Unified School District will propose a strategy to get 40 percent of enrolled students to take at least some advanced learning by 2027. Plus more in local government meetings this week.
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Pima golfer Maria Harrouch claims 4th straight individual title https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/032723_pcc_womens_golf/pima-golfer-maria-harrouch-claims-4th-straight-individual-title/
The Pima Community College women’s golf team completed play in its fifth regular season tournament on Sunday as part of the Chandler-Gilbert CC Invitational. The Aztecs took third place and finished with a season-best score of 635.
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Luis Garcia goes 5-6 with seven RBIs as Aztec baseball wins 10th straight https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/sports/report/032423_pcc_baseball/luis-garcia-goes-5-6-with-seven-rbis-as-aztec-baseball-wins-10th-straight/
The Pima Community College baseball team (28-8, 15-5 in ACCAC) continued its offensive onslaught as it scored double figure runs for the sixth straight game on Friday as it swept GateWay Community College (14-17, 7-13) in Mesa.
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AG Mayes seeks community beefs on Albertsons-Kroger merger https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/032723_grocery_merger_meeting/ag-mayes-seeks-community-beefs-albertsons-kroger-merger/
A "community listening session" hosted by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes on Tuesday in Tucson will focus on the proposed $25 billion merger between grocery giants Albertsons and Kroger — owners of stores such as Safeway and Fry's.
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Bill would require Arizona students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/032723_az_pledge_bill/bill-would-require-arizona-students-recite-pledge-allegiance/
An Arizona bill that requires students’ to recite the Pledge of Allegiance has continued to make its way toward becoming law, though it doesn't include any penalties, leaving an open question as to what would happen to a student, teacher or school that refuses to participate.
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Antisemitism continued to rise in 2022, with one homicide in Arizona https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/032723_antisemitism_rise/antisemitism-continued-rise-2022-with-one-homicide-arizona/
The United States saw a rise in antisemitism in 2022 and Arizona continued to see more antisemitic vandalism and more incidents of racism than in some previous years.
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Press rights in crosshairs as justices tackle those who aid illegal immigration https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/032723_immigration_press/press-rights-crosshairs-as-justices-tackle-those-who-aid-illegal-immigration/
The Biden administration will head to the Supreme Court to defend a federal law that criminalizes certain speech - while the law is aimed at those who would encourage people crossing the border to skirt law enforcement, it has been used by the government to surveil journalists.
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Trump attorney testifies in classified document probe https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/032723_trump_attorney_documents/trump-attorney-testifies-classified-document-probe/
As a lawyer for former President Donald Trump appeared in front of a grand jury for one of multiple criminal investigations he faces — this one Trump's handling of classified documents — legal experts watching the sealed process remarked on the speed of the proceedings.
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GOP bill establishing a federal parental bill of rights passed in U.S. House https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/032723_gop_parental_rights/gop-bill-establishing-federal-parental-bill-rights-passed-us-house/
U.S. House Republicans on Friday passed a bill designed to empower parents to inspect books and other teaching materials in local public schools, but Democrats sharply criticized the measure, saying it would censor teachers and ban books.
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Texas Observer, legendary crusading magazine, is laying off staff, closing after nearly 7 decades https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/032623_texas_monthly_folds/texas-observer-legendary-crusading-magazine-laying-off-staff-closing-after-nearly-7-decades/
The Texas Observer, the storied progressive publication known for its feisty, combative and often humorous investigative journalism, is shutting down and will lay off its 17-person staff, including 13 journalists, several members of its board said Sunday.
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Arizona sex crimes survivors want 'lifetime probation' to look more like a lifetime https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/032423_sex_crimes_punishment/arizona-sex-crimes-survivors-want-lifetime-probation-look-more-like-lifetime/
Some victims of sex crimes want their perpetrators to spend more time being closely monitored and receiving treatment before they can petition for release from lifetime probation.
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Arizona survivors of sex crimes want 'lifetime probation' to look more like a lifetime https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/032423_sex_crimes_punishment/arizona-survivors-sex-crimes-want-lifetime-probation-look-more-like-lifetime/
Some victims of sex crimes want their perpetrators to spend more time being closely monitored and receiving treatment before they can petition for release from lifetime probation.
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Az Republicans hope to expand religious exemption protections https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/032423_religious_vax_expansion/az-republicans-hope-expand-religious-exemption-protections/
Businesses in Arizona would be fined if they deny their employees religious exemptions for the flu vaccine and any vaccine with emergency authorization under a GOP proposal on its way to the governor’s desk.
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Survivors of sex crimes want 'lifetime probation' to look more like a lifetime https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/032423_sex_crimes_punishment/survivors-sex-crimes-want-lifetime-probation-look-more-like-lifetime/
Some victims of sex crimes want their perpetrators to spend more time being closely monitored and receiving treatment before they can petition for release from lifetime probation.
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Settlement will wipe $6 billion in student loan debt — but not for these borrowers https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/032423_student_loan_settlement/settlement-will-wipe-6-billion-student-loan-debt-but-not-these-borrowers/
A federal judge ruled that former students from more than 150 colleges who had filed a borrower defense to repayment claim were entitled to automatic loan cancellation - but when the final legal hurdle was cleared, tens of thousands of private-loan borrowers were left out.
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End of COVID emergency will usher in changes across the U.S. health system https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/032423_covid_health_system/end-covid-emergency-will-usher-changes-across-us-health-system/
The Biden administration’s decision to end the COVID-19 public health emergency in May will institute sweeping changes across the health care system that go far beyond many people having to pay more for COVID tests.
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Former Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly dies at 75 https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/032423_ben_shelley_obit/former-navajo-nation-president-ben-shelly-dies-75/
Former Navajo Nation President and Council Delegate Ben Shelly died on March 22 from a long-term illness at 75.
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DOJ memo on threats to local school boards lambasted by Republicans at U.S. House hearing https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/032423_doj_gop_school_boards/doj-memo-threats-local-school-boards-lambasted-by-republicans-us-house-hearing/
U.S. House Republicans continued to press accusations that a “woke agenda” is deteriorating parents’ rights, targeting a memo by Attorney General Merrick Garland instructing federal law enforcement to open lines of communication on threats to local school board members.
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DOJ memo on threats to local school boards lambasted by Republicans at U.S. House hearing https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/032423_doj_gop_school_boards/doj-memo-threats-local-school-boards-lambasted-by-republicans-us-house-hearing/
U.S. House Republicans continued to press accusations that a “woke agenda” is deteriorating parents’ rights, targeting a memo by Attorney General Merrick Garland instructing federal law enforcement to open lines of communication on threats to local school board members.
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PFAS 'forever chemicals' are everywhere: Here’s what that means for wildlife https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld/report/032423_pfas_wildlife/pfas-forever-chemicals-are-everywhere-heres-what-that-means-wildlife/
PFAS have been around since the 1940s, and more than 120 different compounds have been found in wildlife - with some 330 species were affected, spanning nearly every continent - now, scientists are working to determine how these chemicals affect wild animals’ health.
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