Rice Owls coach David Bailiff, center with fist raised, reacts to his teams success against Texas. Credit: Bob Levey / Getty Images.
The Orlando Sentinel has ranked all 120 Football Bowl Subdivision teams in the country. We’ll take a closer look at a new team daily, counting backward from No. 120 to our projected No. 1 team. We will not be including the four teams the NCAA lists as still reclassifying to the Football Bowl Subdivision level.
Today at No. 9
Youngsters have been getting creative as part of a campaign to emphasise the importance of regular school attendance.
The city council’s education welfare service asked pupils at Marriott Primary, in Saffron Lane, and at other schools across Leicester to come up with puzzle ideas for a book to make other youngsters think about punctuality and attendance.
The finished book will be made available to primary schools to reproduce in-house so all children can enjoy the puzzles.
Councillor Vi Dempster, the council’s education spokesman, said: “We want to get all pupils involved as an incentive to attend regularly, and so they can be part of something fun.
“Regular attendance is vital in order for pupils to get the best out of their schooling, and we hope to encourage them to attend and take part.”
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A rural primary school — with hopes of becoming Northern Ireland’s first Ulster-Scots school — has lost its battle against closure.
Ballykeigle Primary School, on the outskirts of Comber, has been told that its doors will be closing this June after numbers fell to less than 40.
Under Department of Education criteria, a rural school needs an enrolment of 105 pupils to be sustainable long-term.
The news has come as a blow to the dozens of parents who had tirelessly campaigned to keep the 174-year-old school open.
As well as taking their fight to the doors of two Stormont ministries — Culture and Education — parents launched a major recruitment drive.
Thank you for taking the time to submit questions using the hashtag #AskSUMed or the comment section on Scope. Here are my answers.
Max asks: You mentioned your support of the individual mandate. Is this a legal or personal view or both?
Both. As a legal matter, I think the Courts precedents are most easily read as finding this within the Commerce Clause. After all, just a few years ago the Court, with the glowing agreement of Justice Scalia, held that growing marijuana in California, with California materials, for sale and use in California, involved interstate commerce. The idea that this is requiring people to participate in commerce is a little different, so there is no direct precedent, but I think the Court would have to make more new law to find it unconstitutional than to find it constitutional.
With money on the mind, Lake Local Schools will cut jobs and close a school to decrease its growing deficit.
Superintendent Jim Witt confirmed the district will lay off 22 employees and close Walbridge Elementary School at the end of this school year.
After voters rejected a levy request last November and the state cut $2 million in funding, the district has few options moving forward. Lake Local’s deficit could approach $900,000 by the end of the year without the cuts.