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The author said French teachers had noticed something on their payslips that they believed revealed the scale of a school-funding crisis. They argued that money people thought was funding schools was instead going towards pensions, describing the discovery as “a bombshell”. https://t.co/JSO413nPAP #Éducation #France #CriseFinancière #FR

Teachers received a 1.5 per cent pay increase in 2026, while the annual inflation rate is now over four per cent and rising.ASTI General Secretary Linda Kelly said: “Teachers received a 1.5 per cent pay increase in 2026, while the annual inflation rate is now over four per cent and rising. #StrikesIreland #PublicSector #PayDispute

Hundreds of thousands of public sector workers, including nurses, doctors, teachers, and civil servants, are participating in a national 24-hour strike in Ireland to protest against pay issues, leading to widespread disruption of services, including the cancellation of thousands of medical appointments and school closures. #StrikesIreland #PublicSector #PayDispute

The largest public sector strike in Ireland in 18 years is set to involve over 300,000 workers, including teachers, nurses, and doctors, on October 14, in response to the government's failure to provide substantial pay rises amidst a cost-of-living crisis. #IrishStrike #PublicSector #CostOfLiving

Sinn Féin said nurses, teachers and other workers who kept Ireland running had been forced to protest for fair pay, while those at the top continued to benefit under the government. The party said it stood with workers and would keep fighting for them to receive what they deserved. https://t.co/5bGtvTdFVq #FairPay #WorkersRights #Ireland #IE

The author said they and Mihai Popșoi met students and academics at Alecu Russo State University in Bălți to discuss how teachers and education shaped people’s lives and European security amid Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. The author added that they also discussed a topic referenced in a link in the post. https://t.co/cnoq4xvUq5 #Educație #Securitate #Tineret #MD #RU #UA (translated)

The author marked World Teachers’ Day by praising teachers for inspiring, encouraging and shaping generations. They said they had begun their own career as a teacher and had never forgotten how much the experience taught them. They described teaching as sharing knowledge and nurturing curiosity.

The author wrote that a proposal for an ECR debate had been adopted, calling it a defeat for leftists. They said the debate that evening would address student riots in France, including arson attacks on schools and assaults on firefighters, police officers and teachers in places such as La Ciotat, as well as what they described as the role of far-left parties in inciting violence. https://t.co/7EQQP4UmJp #France #Students #Politics #FR

CIVICO 33 — “ORTA NOVA SOUND LAB”: FROM CAPITANATA TO “BROADWAYWORLD”, THE “COMMUNITY BAND” PROJECT CONQUERS NEW YORK SOURCE: https://www.civico93.it/orta-nova-sound-laab-dalla-capitanata-a-broadwayworld-il-progetto-banda-di-comunita-conquista-new-york/ The social laboratory promoted by ANBG and the Ministry of Culture has landed on the world’s largest theatre network, thanks to the article co-authored by Chris Rabinowitz and the Orta Nova-born author Luciano Magaldi Sardella. There is a brass thread linking Piazza Mario Frasca to Broadway. It is called “Orta Nova Sound Lab” — the Community and Social Regeneration Band through Music — the project officially presented on 21 September last at the C-Lab MAO FM 19.77 of brothers Luca and Erminio Ferrandina, which is enjoying unprecedented media coverage for a band-cultural initiative born in the Province of Foggia. Its journalistic success was sealed on 28 September last by its arrival on BroadwayWorld, the world’s most authoritative portal dedicated to theatre and live performance, based in New York with over 1.5 million global monthly visits. A result that was by no means a foregone conclusion, which projects a story from the Apulian periphery into the international cultural news circuit. The article, entitled Orta Nova Sound Lab Launches Youth Community Band in Southern Italy, is jointly by-lined by New York editor Chris Rabinowitz, journalist for the American publication, and his Italian co-author Luciano Magaldi Sardella, an international author originally from Orta Nova, engineer, academic journalist, and researcher active between Italy and abroad. The dual Italo-American by-line symbolises how a “local good practice” can become global news when it is recounted with expertise and rootedness. The Project: The Band as Social Regeneration “Orta Nova Sound Lab” is promoted by the Associazione Nazionale Bande da Giro (ANBG), chaired by Benedetto Grillo, and was admitted for funding under the public call of the Ministry of Culture pursuant to Director General Decree of 7 April 2026, reg. no. 149, aimed at the “Strengthening of research activities and dissemination of musical practices in peripheries and in areas of high social vulnerability”. It is realized with the support of the Comune di Orta Nova and with the collaboration of a solid civic network: A.P.S. MAO FM 19.77, the Istituto di Istruzione Superiore “A. Olivetti”, the Istituto Comprensivo “Sandro Pertini”, the Music Art association, and the C.I.S.A. of Foggia. As BroadwayWorld itself emphasised, this is the first initiative in Italy to reinterpret the distinctive tradition of touring bands (bande da giro) and youth orchestras within a ministerial call dedicated to urban peripheries and social vulnerability. A model that dialogues explicitly with the spirit of the so-called “Caivano Decree” (Law Decree 123/2023) for combating youth distress, educational poverty, and juvenile crime. The idea, in its disarming simplicity, was summarised by the project director for ANBG, Antonella Spagnoletti: “The band is aggregation! The band is cohesion. Bringing these youngsters together, educating them, and enabling them to live in a manner different from the social-media world is among the primary objectives of our association.” A concept reiterated by the Mayor of Orta Nova, Eng. Domenico Di Vito: “This is an important project that can certainly make a difference compared with the past, because all the ingredients are there to network the entire cultural and social world that exists in Orta Nova and that must be valorised. The administration’s commitment is to ensure sustainability, structure, and continuity over time.” Taking part in the launch press conference, moderated by journalist Giuseppe Di Bisceglie, in addition to President Grillo, Director Spagnoletti, and Mayor Di Vito, were Regional Councillor Grazia Maria Starace, Councillor for relations with the third sector Sebastiano Battista, Councillor for Culture Vittoria Mastrogiacomo, and educational professor Alfredo Coppola, contact person for the Olivetti Institute. Why the Story Went International The “Orta Nova Sound Lab” band project demonstrates that when a project has anti-mafia roots, pedagogical value, and a credible institutional network, the press responds. From local and national titles such as Cassa Armonica, Ansa Puglia, TGNorba, Corriere della Sera Bari, RaiNews TGR Puglia, La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, Amica9TV, Brindisi In, Blasting News Italia, TRM Network, Secolo XIX, FoggiaToday, PlayNews24, Stato Quotidiano, and many others, which thoroughly documented the conference, the coverage reached “Broadway World”, which read the Orta Nova experience as a “social laboratory” capable of answering the mafia with music. This change of scale derives from joint work and also from the liaison work carried out by Luciano Magaldi Sardella, who, together with New York editor Chris Rabinowitz, succeeded in translating for an Anglophone audience the profound meaning of a town band which, in Apulia, is not folklore, but a civil garrison, a concrete alternative to the screen and to social disintegration. In a South often narrated only for its emergencies, Orta Nova chooses to be recounted for its capacity to generate community. And this time, the news has travelled around the world, starting from a piazza in the Daunia. The Calendar The pathway, which is entirely free of charge, provides instrumental workshops for wind and percussion, ensemble music lessons, and collective rehearsals with qualified teachers and conductors, open to aspiring musicians, families, schools, and citizens. The programme that has attracted the attention of the national and now international press is structured as follows: October 2026: parade of marching bands through the streets and public spaces of Orta Nova, to recover the historic value of the band as a popular and identity-based expression. November–December 2026: high-profile concert season with the Gran Concerto Bandistico di Conversano and the Gran Concerto Bandistico “Biagio Abbate” Città di Bisceglie, an artistic training ground for young pupils. Inclusion Focus: a special evening dedicated to women in music with the Orchestra Note di Puglia, an ensemble composed entirely of professional women musicians, to reinforce the values of equal opportunities. January 2027: first official concert of the newborn Community Band of Orta Nova, a foundational act and public restitution of the work accomplished. (translated)

The post’s author asked whether intelligence gathered by drones from Sigonella, cargo flights from Sigonella and Aviano, and MUOS had contributed to what they called war crimes, including the US bombing of a school in Minab, where they said 120 children and 26 teachers were killed. They said such a contribution was “almost certain.” https://t.co/59E27H2kmM #WarCrimes #Drones #HumanRights #IT #US #IR

The author wrote that explosions began around them while they were having breakfast with teachers from Kyiv schools. Their “Women Who Teach the Future” event had started at 11 a.m. in an underground cafe chosen as a shelter, the author said, adding that this was how events were planned in Kyiv at the time. https://t.co/AJfzc7fYmk #Kyiv #Teachers #WomenWhoTeach #UA