Kentucky lawmakers override veto to pass bill authorizing faculty furloughs for financial reasons

Kentucky lawmakers override veto to pass bill authorizing faculty furloughs for financial reasons Lawmakers in the Kentucky General Assembly have overridden Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto of a bill that would have allowed public universities and community colleges in the state to fire faculty, including tenured staff, for financial reasons.House Bill 490 passed earlier in the…

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Asha Bhosle death: Did Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan skip Asha Bhosle’s funeral for ‘security reasons’? |

Legendary Indian singer Asha Bhosle was cremated with full state honors at Mumbai’s Shivaji Park Crematorium on Monday. Relatives, friends, film personalities and politicians gathered to pay their last respects. But, Bollywood superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan, who were closely associated with the star, were conspicuously absent. Salman and Shah Rukh skipped Asha…

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The Kentucky Senate passed a bill to allow colleges to cut faculty for financial reasons.

Lawmakers approve HB 490, sparking debate over educational freedom in Kentucky Kentucky’s Senate on Friday passed HB 490, a controversial bill that would give public college governing boards the authority to fire faculty members for broadly defined financial reasons, including low enrollment in programs or majors and “misalignment of income and expenses,” according to the…

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