Wealthy millennials are leaving blue states on both coasts and heading to red states in the south by the thousands, according to a recent study.
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The physical fitness exam, called the Functional Fitness Assessment Test, required applicants to complete 18 push-ups in one minute, 27 sit-ups in one minute, run 1.5 miles within 15 minutes and 20 seconds, and reach approximately 1.5 inches past their toes while seated. Candidates were allowed to take the test up to three times in one year.
According to the DOJ’s lawsuit, 81% of males and only 51% of females passed at least once.
“The rate at which female applicants passed the FFAT at least once is statistically significantly lower than the rate at which male applicants passed the FFAT at least once; and the female applicant pass rate is less than 80% of the male applicant pass rate,” the complaint read.
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When You Can't Lose Weight, Litigate! DOJ Wins Suit Against MD State Police 'Discriminatory' Fitness Test
As someone with a background in healthcare, and a general interest in first responders such as police officers being physically able to do their jobs, I am endlessly fascinated by the push to lower physical fitness standards for things like the military and police/fire departments.
It's part of the insidious push to DEI-ify every aspect of life. Because diversity, equity, and inclusion are more important than public safety and people's lives, apparently.
Union President Stacy Davis Gates said in early March that her proposed contract for 2024 to 2028 ‘will cost $50 billion and 3 cents.’
‘And so what?’ Davis Gates added. ‘That’s audacity. That’s Chicago.’
What started as tension between the mayor and Chicago Public Schools has developed into a full-blown crisis. All seven of his handpicked members of the board of education announced their resignation on Friday after declining to fire CPS CEO Pedro Martinez and amid contract negotiations with the powerful Chicago Teachers Union.
Sources tell Fox 32 Chicago the resignations are because several board members were agitated by a pressure campaign from the mayor’s office to fire Martinez and to approve a high-interest short-term loan to help plug a budget gap and pay for a large new teachers union contract.
More than half of the Chicago City Council released a statement Saturday afternoon in response to the mass resignation.
“This is unprecedented and brings further instability to our school district,” the statement read.
“Taking out a $300 million, high-interest payday loan is not a smart decision when CPS is already facing a massive deficit and the city an almost $1 billion deficit,” the statement continued.
That's hilarious.Wisconsin Supreme Court grapples with governor’s 400-year veto, calling it ‘crazy’
The case, supported by the Republican-controlled Legislature, is the latest flashpoint in a decades-long fight over just how broad Wisconsin’s governor’s partial veto powers should be. The issue has crossed party lines, with Republicans and Democrats pushing for more limitations on the governor’s veto over the years.
In this case, Evers made the veto in question in 2023. His partial veto increased how much revenue K-12 public schools can raise per student by $325 a year until 2425. Evers took language that originally applied the $325 increase for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 school years and instead vetoed the “20” and the hyphen to make the end date 2425, more than four centuries from now.
“The veto here approaches the absurd and exceeds any reasonable understanding of legislative or voter intent in adopting the partial veto or subsequent limits,” attorneys for legal scholar Richard Briffault, of Columbia Law School, said in a filing with the court ahead of arguments.
That argument was cited throughout the oral arguments by justices and Scott Rosenow, attorney for Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce Litigation Center, which handles lawsuits for the state’s largest business lobbying group and brought the case.