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How much do striking Oakland teachers make? Here’s how their pay compares to other Bay Area districts

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:51:16 GMT

With Oakland Unified School District teachers on strike for a second time in two years, how does their pay compare around the region, state and country?The Oakland Education Association, the union representing the district’s 3,000 K-12 teachers, counselors, social workers, speech pathologists, nurses, librarians and substitutes, argues its teachers are the lowest paid in the Bay Area.The average annual teacher salary in Oakland Unified for the 2021-2022 school year was $70,572, according to the California Department of Education. Across the Bay at San Francisco Unified, the average was $84,881, while at San Jose Unified, it was $86,433. At Piedmont City Unified, located in the town surrounded by Oakland, the average was $89,480.Among other Bay Area districts, the average annual salary was $77,994 in West Contra Costa Unified, $82,473 in Ravenswood Elementary and $122,868 at Palo Alto Unified.The Department of Education lists Oakland Unified as California’s 11th largest s...

Shooting victim found in car outside Antioch 7-Eleven identified

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:51:16 GMT

ANTIOCH — Authorities on Thursday identified a man shot to death and found inside a vehicle in a 7-Eleven parking lot.Antioch police officers found 31-year-old Clayton Sills, of Pittsburg, after responding to the store in the 2700 block of Hillcrest Avenue about 7:40 p.m., Antioch police Lt. John Fortner said in a statement. Sills had been shot once.Officers originally responded to the 7-Eleven on reports that the car had crashed in the parking lot. Fortner said police believe he was shot inside his car.Two people ran from the scene, according to witnesses who spoke to police, Fortner said.The homicide is the second one Antioch police have investigated in 2023.Police have not announced any arrests.Related ArticlesCrime and Public Safety | Authorities suspect 18-year-old Concord man in Bay Point fatal shooting Crime and Public Safety | Prosecutors: Man sat in car with loaded gun at East Bay elementary school parking lot Crime and Public Safety | ...

School bus full of children crashes into car in San Jose, no reported injuries

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:51:16 GMT

(KRON) -- A San Jose school bus loaded full of children crashed into a stopped car on the East Capitol Expressway on Thursday morning, pushing the car into several other stopped cars, according to the CHP. The bus was headed west on the expressway at around 7:45 a.m. when it hit the read end of a Toyota Corolla. Oakland teachers on strike starting Thursday after no deal is reached with school district The Corolla and the other cars involved were stopped at a red light, the CHP said. There were 27 students onboard the bus at the time of the crash, along with a bus driver. No one was reported injured as a result of the crash. At this time, police are unsure as to why the bus did not stop for the cars at the red light. Drugs and alcohol do not appear to have been a factor. Although there were no injuries, property damage was suffered by some of the involved vehicles.The CHP is leading the investigation into the incident.This is a developing story. Check back for updates.

Texas GOP Opens Up a New Front in Genocidal Anti-Trans Campaign

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:51:16 GMT

The transgender community and LGBTQ+ activists rallied at the Texas Capitol in Austin in response to a string of anti-transgender bills on March 27, 2023.Photo: Reginald Mathalone/NurPhoto via APThe Texas Senate passed a first-of-its-kind bill last week that would make it virtually impossible for a trans person of any age to access gender-affirming care in the state. All those invested in trans liberation have known from the jump that this has been the Republicans’ end game; the relentless attempts to ban trans children’s medical care were simply an opening salvo to a wider attack on all trans existence. Texas Senate Bill 1029 makes this genocidal agenda abundantly clear, while introducing an insidious new strategy for expanding trans health care bans to adults: financial liability.Many trans adults already lack access to transition-related health care in the seven states, including Texas, where Medicaid coverage of such care is prohibited. Missouri’s recent “emergency rule,” while ...

Recall effort against Arizona election denier fails

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:51:16 GMT

Organizers of an effort to remove a rural Arizona county supervisor for skepticism over the results of last year’s election announced that they have fallen short of the legal requirement to proceed with a recall effort that would have given voters the option of removing him from office.The campaign to recall Tom Crosby in rural Cochise County said Wednesday night that it fell short of collecting the 4,865 signatures required to place the recall on the ballot for voters later this year. Crosby is one of two Republican supervisors on the three-member board who refused to certify the 2022 election in the county. They pushed for hand counting ballots instead of relying on more accurate voting machines and gave oversight of elections to the county’s elected Republican recorder instead of nonpartisan staff. The recorder then hired a new election director who shared memes echoing former President Donald Trump’s false claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election.“This will ...

Jury finds British singer Ed Sheeran’s hit song “Thinking Out Loud” didn’t copy Marvin Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On”

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:51:16 GMT

NEW YORK (AP) — Jury finds British singer Ed Sheeran’s hit song “Thinking Out Loud” didn’t copy Marvin Gaye’s classic “Let’s Get It On.”Source

Handbells ring true in keeping seniors sharp, engaged and learning something new

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:51:16 GMT

Members of Bronze Unlimited perform a song on handbells. Music To Free is a nonprofit organization that brings handbell programs to low- and fixed-income senior living centers, veteran rehabilitation programs, and addiction treatment programs. (Courtesy Music to Free)Learning to play an instrument can be fun, entertaining, and rewarding for anyone, but it can also serve a very important purpose as you get older.“Playing handbells is a way to help our senior population stay engaged, making music, which is a huge brain stimulation,” said Alan Payne, founder of Music To Free, a nonprofit organization which brings handbell programs to low- and fixed-income senior living centers, veteran rehabilitation programs, and addiction treatment programs. “It helps to release dopamine and elevate mood, and improve cognitive abilities.”During COVID, Payne began thinking of teaching handbells to seniors, when he saw their reactions to performances that involved ringing the br...

Sports on TV for Friday, May 5

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:51:16 GMT

(All times Eastern)Schedule subject to change and/or blackoutsFriday, May 5AUSTRALIAN RULES FOOTBALL5:30 a.m.FS2 — AFL Brisbane at Carlton12 a.m. (Saturday)FS2 — AFL: Adelaide at Geelong2:30 a.m. (Saturday)FS1 — AFL: Melbourne at Gold Coast5:25 a.m. (Saturday)FS2 — AFL: Hawthorn at FremantleAUTO RACING2:25 p.m.ESPN2 — Formula 1: Practice, Miami International Autodrome, Miami5:55 p.m.ESPN2 — Formula 1: Practice, Miami International Autodrome, MiamiBASKETBALL AFRICA LEAGUE9 a.m.NBATV — Petro de Luanda vs. Al Ahly, Cairo, EgyptCOLLEGE BASEBALL8 p.m.ACCN — Boston College at Wake ForestSECN — Vanderbilt at Alabama11 p.m.PAC-12N — Washington at Washington St.COLLEGE BEACH VOLLEYBALL (WOMEN’S)10 a.m.ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: TBD vs. UCLA, Dual 1, Gulf Shores, Ala.11 a.m.ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: Long Beach St. vs. California, Dual 2, Gulf Shores, Ala.12 p.m.ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: FIU vs. Florida St., Dual 3, Gulf Shores, Ala.1 p.m.ESPNU — NCAA Tournament: FAU vs. LSU, Dual 4, Gulf Shores, ...

Uno por uno: los 10 deportistas mejor pagados del mundo, según Forbes

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:51:16 GMT

LOS ÁNGELES, California – Cristiano Ronaldo es el deportista mejor pagado del mundo en 2023, según el listado de la revista Forbes que sitúa en segunda y tercera posición a Leo Messi y Kylian Mbappé, respectivamente.El portugués lidera este ránking — que analiza el negocio mundial de las estrellas del deporte del 1 de mayo de 2022 al 1 de mayo de 2023 — con unos ingresos de $136 millones gracias, en gran medida, a los $75 millones que cobra al año como sueldo en el Al Nassr de Arabia Saudí.CRISTIANO RONALDO – $136 MILLONESRonaldo ganó 90 millones con sus patrocinios y otros negocios fuera de los terrenos de juego mientras que recibió $46 millones por su desempeño en el campo (Forbes consideró para su cálculo lo que obtuvo en el Manchester United y en el Al Nassr además del tiempo que estuvo sin equipo).LIONEL MESSI – $130 MILLONESCristiano arrebató así el número uno de Forbes a Messi, que había sido el deportista mejor pagado en 2022 con 130 millones y ...

NASCAR 75: Fan growth, new stars among looming challenges

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 16:51:16 GMT

NASCAR is crumbling. That is the image being presented to the casual fan early in this injury-plagued start to NASCAR’s 75th anniversary season. Through the first 11 races this season, NASCAR has handed down massive penalties, some of which have been overturned by appeal panels.Team owners are in a stalemate with NASCAR leadership over a new revenue model and drivers have been unhappy with the second-year Next Gen car’s performance at certain tracks. Most alarming, as NASCAR is in the thick of negotiating a new television contract, was the dramatic drop in TV ratings when Chase Elliott was sidelined earlier this season. Elliott has been voted NASCAR’s most popular driver by the fans the last five years; when he spent six races recovering from a broken leg suffered in a snowboarding accident, ratings dropped by roughly 500,000 viewers. And when he returned? NASCAR saw back-to-back ratings increases. As part of the celebration of NASCAR’s 75th season, The Associated ...