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The Best Payroll Apps Of 2025 Managing payroll takes a lot of time and effort. No matter your company’s pay period, you need to calculate wages, payroll taxes, and deductions accurately. Even a small mistake can cause payment delays, result in penalties, and leave employees unhappy. Thankfully, a payroll app can help you avoid these problems. Payroll software simplifies everything. It calculates wages, generates pay stubs, and helps with tax form filing. For small business owners, a payroll app lowers the chances of errors and saves hours of manual work. This guide reviews the best payroll apps of 2025. It…

Students from Pomona College and other Claremont Colleges took part in pro-Palestinian protests. Genaro Molina | Contributor | Los Angeles Times Both Pomona College and the University of California settled antisemitism allegations last week. Pomona’s agreement resolves an antisemitism complaint filed with the Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights in April 2024, amid intense pro-Palestinian protests on the California campus. In the 27-page deal, the private college “acknowledges that many Jewish students experience anti-Zionism as an attack on their Jewish identity, ethnicity, religion, and/or ancestry, which means these students experience anti-Zionism as antisemitism, and the College commits to protect them…

When it comes to the affordability crisis in child care, Lenice Emanuel says that it’s forcing families to take a hard look at their budgets — no matter their income level. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.But as child care costs surpass the price of rent in some areas, those money choices are even more extreme for folks on the margins, explains Emanuel, executive director of the Alabama Institute for Social Justice. “They’re gonna say, ‘We had to make a decision whether my husband stays home or I stay home because we both work, and we still can’t afford to…

Bruno V. Manno, RealClearEducation The federal Pell Grant program is the cornerstone of college aid for low-income undergraduates, providing roughly $39 billion in fiscal year 2025 to help…

Governor DeSantis is proposing that New College of Florida (above) take over University of South Florida’s Sarasota-Manatee campus. Independent Picture Service/Universal Images Group/Universal Images Group Editorial/Getty Images Governor Ron DeSantis proposed transferring the University of South Florida’s (USF) Sarasota-Manatee campus to New College of Florida (NCF), which would significantly expand the state’s smallest institution. The proposal, released last week as part of his 2026–27 budget, resurrects a plan from earlier this year that failed to gain momentum. As part of the deal, New College would receive more than 32 acres of land and facilities that include new residence halls and…

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott gave more multimillion donations out to colleges. picture alliance/Getty Images Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is at it again with another round of gifts. Robeson Community College in North Carolina announced a $24 million gift from Scott on Thursday, the single largest contribution in the rural college’s history. Robeson’s president, Melissa Singler, called the gift “a profound affirmation of our students, our faculty and staff, and the limitless potential of Robeson County.” “Never before have we been given a gift of this magnitude that affords our team the time, space and freedom to think, dream and plan boldly,” Singler said…

Curated Reads For L&D Managers: 2025 Training Roundup 2025 has been a defining year for L&D. AI is no longer a future trend—it’s the backbone of how we design courses, deliver content, accelerate rapid eLearning, and support learners across geographies. But with every new AI-powered capability comes a fresh challenge, a new decision point, and a need for clarity. Here is a curated read that will help you navigate it all. This roundup brings together five of the most relevant themes shaping L&D today, each represented by a standout article filled with insights and practical takeaways. Instead of simply listing…

Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. The person who killed two people and injured nine in the Dec. 13 shooting at Brown University didn’t appear to have a hard time accessing the first-floor lecture hall in the Barus and Holley engineering and physics building, reports show.  The building had few security cameras in the area outside the classroom, and the doors were unlocked, according to reports.  “He went in basically without anyone noticing anything,” Thomas Verdi, a former Providence chief of police who now oversees the city’s revenue…

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter This story is part of The 74’s special coverage marking the 65th anniversary of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Read all our stories here. The Los Angeles Unified School District has seen some impressive academic results over the last few years. But in pursuing those gains, district leaders have led themselves into a financially unsustainable position. Its most recent proposed budget contains the blunt admission that, “L.A. Unified currently has a structural deficit whereby in-year expenditures exceed in-year revenues. As revenues continue to decrease…

To use the teleprompter in Google Vids™, you must access the Recording Studio. This feature is designed to help you (or your students) deliver a script naturally without looking down at notes.Open the Recording StudioOpen your Google Vids™ project.In the sidebar or timeline, click Record.Select Camera (or Camera & screen) to enable the video feed.Add Your ScriptLook for the Script button (often a document icon) in the side panel of the recording window.Type your script into the text box, or copy and paste it from a Google Doc™.Note: If you used “Help me create” to start the video, a script…