Lawmaker, Florida school at odds on alleged bathroom attack

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Police in Florida say they will investigate a lawmaker’s allegation that a transgender student may have sexually assaulted a female student in a middle school bathroom over the summer — a rumored attack that school district officials say never occurred and that investigators say they received no reports about.

After reading Republican State Rep. Randy Fine’s social media posts about the alleged assault on Thursday, police in the eastern coast city of Melbourne, just south of Cape Canaveral, assigned two detectives to investigate the allegations, though they said they had received no previous word of an attack.

Fine told The Associated Press on Friday that some parents approached him, saying a teacher at the school told them about the incident but that the teacher was “afraid to go public because of fear of retaliation by the school district.”

Brevard Public Schools spokesperson Russell Bruhn disputed Fine’s allegations. “There was no

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6 things school nurses want parents to know as kids head back to school

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Back to school: School nurses share ways to keep your child healthy. (Photo: Getty Images)
Back to school: School nurses share ways to keep your child healthy. (Photo: Getty Images)

In what seems like the blink of an eye, summer is nearly over and it’s time for back to school. Along with gathering school supplies and packing lunches, parents also need to think about their child’s health while in school. It’s understandable that some parents may be wondering what the COVID protocols will look like this year and how to decide when to keep their child home from school.

So Yahoo Life reached out to five school nurses from across the country and asked them to share what they want parents to know to help ensure that their kids are healthy and ready for the school year.

No. 1: Consider testing for COVID before back to school and after holiday breaks

How schools handle COVID-19 this school year will differ from last year. “It’s not

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Fujitsu Unveils Circuit Design That Optimizes Deep Learning Applications

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Deep LearningDecades-old discoveries are actually electrifying the computing trade and will soon transform company America.

To spherical out our first step, learn the first chapter of Neural Networks and Deep Learning , the incredible, evolving online ebook by Michael Nielsen, which fits a step further but nonetheless keeps things pretty gentle. Get the complete Deep Learning A-Z course, all code templates and the three further bonuses PLUS one of the best-selling Machine Learning A-Z course (200+ lectures and over 36 hrs of content) and all of its code templates in Python. Lifetime limitless access.

To overcome this problem, a number of methods were proposed. One is Jürgen Schmidhuber ‘s multi-degree hierarchy of networks (1992) pre-educated one level at a time by unsupervised studying, effective-tuned by backpropagation 17 Here each degree learns a compressed representation of the observations that’s fed to the subsequent degree. Deep learning excels on drawback domains where the …

Turkish pop star jailed over joke about religious schools

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ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish pop star Gulsen has been arrested on charges of “inciting hatred and enmity” with a joke she made about Turkey’s religious schools, the country’s state-run news agency reported.

The 46-year-old singer and songwriter, whose full name is Gulsen Colakoglu, was taken away from her home in Istanbul for questioning and formally arrested late Thursday. She was then taken to a prison pending trial.

The arrest sparked outrage on social media. Government critics said the move was an effort by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to consolidate support from his religious and conservative ahead of elections in 10 months.

The charges were based on a joke Gulsen made during an April concert in Istanbul, where she quipped that one of her musicians’ “perversion” stemmed from attending a religious school. A video of the singer’s comment began circulating on social media recently, with a hashtag calling for her

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Pennsylvania school district accused of banning Girls Who Code book series

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A school district in Pennsylvania temporarily banned the Girls Who Code book series for young readers, according to an index of banned books compiled by the free expression non-profit, Pen America.

The books are four of more than 1,500 unique book titles that have been banned by various schools across the country after conservative pushes to censor books. According to a report released by Pen America in April, 138 school districts across 32 states have banned books from their classrooms and school libraries, sometimes temporarily, even if only for a day, sometimes on an ongoing basis.

A recent update to Pen America’s banned book index included the Central York school district in Pennsylvania as banning the books The Friendship Code, Team BFF: Race to the Finish!, Lights, Music, Code! and Spotlight on Coding Club! They were among a suggested new list of more diverse teaching resources that ended up being

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