The train, which originated from Madison, Illinois, on the evening of Feb. 1, broke down at least once before derailing in East Palestine, Ohio, on Feb. 3, according to employees familiar with the matter.
The employees say there were concerns among those working on the train over what they believed was the train's excessive length and weight — 151 cars, 9,300 feet long, 18,000 tons — before it reached East Palestine, which contributed to both the initial breakdown and the derailment. Read at CBSNews.com
9. Christian Teacher Loses Job After Refusing to Deceive Parents on Kids' Gender Transitions
A California teacher, who lost her job after refusing to comply with a California district's gender policies, citing Christian beliefs, is blowing the whistle on the expectations she felt as a teacher to not only hide students' gender transitions from parents, but also to keep them in the dark through lying.
"I knew immediately, like in my gut, in my heart, in my soul, that there was a decision I had to make because, you know, these two things were totally butting heads," Jessica Tapia, who worked at the Jurupa Unified School District, told Fox News Digital. "I essentially had to pick one. Am I going to obey the district in the directive that are not lining up with… my own beliefs, convictions and faith? Or am I going to stay true…, choose my faith, choose to be obedient to… the way the Lord has called me to live. And so it was crazy to be in the position where I realized that I couldn't be a Christian and a teacher." Read at FoxNews.com
Sitting before the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing, Walensky told lawmakers on Feb. 8 that the CDC will continue to recommend masks in schools in communities where COVID-19 levels are high. Read at FoxNews.com
Out of 649 Chicago Public Schools, 22 schools have zero students who met grade level expectations for reading while no students were proficient in math in 33 schools during the 2021-2022 school year, according to a Wirepoints report. The data analyzed is from the Illinois State Board of Education annual report which details how schools within the state are performing. Read at DailyCaller.com
The video, posted by nonprofit Mythinformed Milwaukee, shows the Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons Class of 2025 during a White Coat Ceremony reciting an oath led by Lisa Mellman, M.D., a senior associate dean for student affairs and the Samuel Rudin professor of psychiatry.
According to a news release on the Columbia University Irving Medical Center website, the August 2021 ceremony was the first time in the medical school's 255-year history that the incoming medical students recited their personalized class oath, a spin on the Hippocratic Oath to "better reflect the values [students] wish to uphold as they enter their medical training." Read at FoxNews.com
Springfield police were called to Kenwood Elementary School on Monday morning in regard to the incident, which occurred during Friday’s recess time, according to WHIO.
The school’s principal informed police that "a group of Black students had gathered several white students on a specific spot of the playground and forced them to state ‘Black Lives Matter’ against their will." Read at ThePostMillennial.com
4. Loudoun County School Board Shoots Down Motion to Release Rape Investigation
The school board in Loudoun County, Virginia, voted on Tuesday night to keep the findings of an independent report on sexual assault private. The report, compiled by the law firm Blankingship and Keith, focused on how the district responded to two sexual assault incidents at Stone Bridge High School in May 2021. The 15-year-old “gender fluid” male student pleaded guilty to counts of rape in “forced sodomy” and “forced fellatio” against a teenage girl at Stone Bridge. Read at DailySignal.com
Though the material retrieved by the FBI reportedly did not have classified documents, the agency reportedly did take certain materials with them. “Investigators retrieved materials from two university locations on two different days. The material did not appear to have classified markings, according to the source, but they are now being reviewed by the FBI,” CNN reported. Read at Breitbart.com
Prosecutors filed a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan Monday night, alerting him that they discovered Bankman-Fried used a VPN to access the internet on Jan. 29 and Feb. 12, raising concerns that his use of a private network prevents them from monitoring his behavior online. Read at NYPost.com
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