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Weingarten Blames Screens, Not Herself, For Falling Test Scores Authored by Aaron Withe and Tina Snider via RealClearPolitics, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten is sounding the alarm about the decade-long decline in student test scores, pointing to screens and devices as a culprit. She's calling it a "call to action." She left out the part about how she helped cause the problem in the first place. For two years during the COVID pandemic, Weingarten and the AFT fought aggressively to keep schools closed. In July 2020, as the Trump administration urged...

Aaaand It's Gone... PE Shop Thoma Bravo Writes Off Over $5BN From 2021 SaaS Firm Acquisition Not a great night for SaaS... Given the eight straight days of gains for Software stocks, one could argue that the death of code-base companies was greatly exaggerated (cough -dead-cat bounce - cough), but not every boat is being lifted by this massive short-squeeze rebound JPMorgan Trader Brian Heavey said earlier that it "seems we are moving from 'SAAS is dead' to 'maybe they can co-exist'", but it appears one software firm is indeed 'no more'. In...

Chinese National Indicted In Florida For Allegedly Importing Deadly New Synthetic Opioid Authored by Chris Summers via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), A Chinese national has been indicted by the federal authorities in Florida for his alleged role in a plot to import and distribute large quantities of a new synthetic opioid, protonitazene, which is “significantly more potent than fentanyl,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida said in a May 11 statement. An undated image of nitazene tablets in the hand of a police officer in Australia. (Australian...