Thursday, April 21, 2016

Current Event 6.1

1. Harriet Tubman will be on the $20 bill. Women and civil rights leaders will be on the back of the $10 and $5 dollar bills. A Broadway musical about Hamilton helped him stay on the $10 bill.

2. Three officials have been accused of covering up evidence of lead contamination. There aren't many charges against people being bad at their job. They mislead people that the water was safe. They tampered with evidence. And they failed to order anti-corrosion treatment. The governor is drinking the water for the next 30 days to show it is safe. I think it will help unless he gets sick.

3. They won by a lot. Clinton is close, but Trump has a long ways to go. Primaries in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Delaware. He said the Republican nominating system is bad. Clinton stopped Sanders streak of wins.

4. They sued them over a new evaluation system. The union hopes to block a new evaluation system that would tie teacher's scores to student performance on standardized tests. AISD is adopting a new system that uses those tests results in a limited fashion. Value-added models are models that evaluate teachers by student test scores over time, which is simmilar to the new plan.

5. The deal compensates owners for cars that cheat on emissions tests. $1 billion will be given out. Some cars will cost more to repair. The car cheated emissions tests. They will have to pay for Clean Air Act violations.

6. Memphis has the Blues:

The Spurs dominated the Grizzles again on Tuesday night after the Memphis coach tried to give the team a pep-talk by impersonating Rocky Balboa. It doesn't look like the rest of the series will be close either. With the Spurs winning so easily there is a chance they will loose their groove before their next series.

I choose this article because the Spurs are my favorite team. I also watched that game, so I wanted to see what the writer thought about it. It is also by Kirk Bohls who you have had us read a lot.

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