Cathedral High School, an all-girls Catholic institution in Manhattan, will permanently close following the 2025-2026 school year after struggling with declining enrollment and financial issues, the Board of Trustees announced in collaboration with the Archdiocese of New York. The decision to shut down the school, which was founded in 1905, comes after a thorough financial review and months of deliberation with educational and financial experts, according to a report by thegoodnewsroom.org.
The European Correspondent began with a game of telephone between two college students, one in Amsterdam, one in Basel. As the friends passed updates about their countries back and forth, the thought dawned on them - hey, wouldn't it be great to have friends all over the continent, sharing news just like this? So they started a daily newsletter, recruited a stable of unpaid volunteers from every country in Europe, established a Swiss business association, and got to work on their pan-European venture.
If you pay 100 million for Harry Kane, that's a lot of money. But the club amortizes that over five years, so it's 20 million per year on the balance sheet. The big problem is the high salaries. FC Bayern are feeling that too. When it comes to our players' salaries, we have been somewhat generous - and we have to say that self-critically,
The tuition fees have been frozen at 9,250 since 2017, but in November, it was announced that they would increase in line with the Retail Price Index inflation in September 2025.
Councils should be granted greater control over council tax, as the disconnect between local charges and service quality undermines local democracy. An inquiry recommended interim powers be devolved to councils.
Scott Coulter, a former high-ranking executive at the Social Security Administration, proposed using a portion of the $2.7 trillion trust fund to invest in a convertible Treasury note. This proposal aimed to leverage the stock market instead of relying solely on US debt to enhance Social Security's funds. Despite its potential benefits, the plan was rejected by the new Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano without clear reasons; current forecasts now expect Social Security to run out of funds by 2032.
"I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade, subsidized by MS's 'infinite money,' but at some point reality has to hit," Colantonio said in a reply to a post from a follower. "I don't think GP can co-exist with other models, they'll either kill everyone else, or give up."