Texas Law Requires Interscholastic Sports for Students with Disabilities – PHE America

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Introduction
The authors hope this Bill could be introduced in your state to help students with disabilities gain equal access to and equality for sports equivalent to what is offered to nondisabled students.  The article will present Texas Senate Bill 776, highlighting notable sections, language suggestions, the need for state disability sports laws, arguments presented for this Bill, proposed advocacy, and recommendations for implementation. Texas, for example, has organized interscholastic men’s sports for over 100 years and women’s for 50 years (Title IX. 1972), it’s time students with disabilities have the same equality and equity opportunities (i.e., funding, coaches, full

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A Perceived Philosophical Conflict – PHE America

I am the only female in my high school PE department. It’s been this way for 20 years. The one time another female came in she tried to out-alpha the football coach and got removed from teaching PE and placed in Health. I think she might have taught one section of PE in the two years she was here, and I think it was Adapted PE. Since we’ve had a fully working weight room, it was always paired with the football coach. We got a new one this year, the fifth in my tenure working at this same high school.

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LETTER: Guelph health care needs serious attention

‘Our local politicians should prioritize efforts to rectify this very sad situation. Until then, here is the remedy….don’t get sick!’

GuelphToday received the following letter to the editor from Rick Ferraro regarding the state of Guelph’s healthcare system.

Over the last week, three acquaintances have been rushed to the Guelph General Hospital for assistance for life threatening occurrences. While the attentiveness of the nurses and staff were wonderful, the accommodations were not.

None were able to be given a room and one was transferred to the COVID area due to lack of proper accommodations. As I have said before, our

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2023 political priorities embrace inflation, well being care, and local weather rights

The economic system stays the highest bipartisan situation heading into the brand new yr, in response to an open-ended ballot surveying People on their top-five points for the federal government to work on in 2023, carried out by the Related Press-NORC Heart for Public Affairs Analysis in December.

Some 30 % of People say inflation is a excessive precedence — roughly twice the quantity who stated it was final yr, although down 40 % since June — whereas three-quarters of adults say they’re nonetheless not assured within the authorities to make progress on the issues the nation faces.

Republicans’ prime

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