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Arkansas Governor Sanders has compiled a Greatest Hits album of ideas to disrupt, defund and dismantle public education in her new Arkansas LEARNS plan. Here are the highlights.Early childhood edEarly childhood ed will now come under the Department of Education, which will have the job of managing all federal grant money for ECE, licensing, and maintaining a website for families with pertinent information. That will include "accountability" scores that will be based on "ratings indicative of child outcomes" and God Only Knows what the heck that means. But there will be a bunch of locally controlled "early childhood lead organizations" (GOKWTHTM)...

With some savvy trip planning, I think Sunapee makes an excellent choice for a family ski trip or a girls' getaway.Mount Sunapee is tucked into the middle of New Hampshire and remains a lesser-known ski destination for most in New England. It's about 90 minutes from Boston and has some of the best skiing in the state with breathtaking views overlooking Lake Sunapee.Related: Favorite Ski Socks for KidsThe mountain seems to be used mostly for locals and day-trippers, since it sits on State Park land, it lacks ski-in/ski-out accommodations that many destination resorts offer. But what it lacks in convenient accommodations,...

Who doesn’t love an easy recipe made with ground meat? Whether it’s ground chicken, ground turkey, ground beef, or even ground pork, this type of meat is cheap and easy to cook with, making for easy weeknight meals when you need something in a pinch. So of course, we had to round up some of our favorite ground sausage recipes as well, featuring all of the tasty and healthy ways you can cook up this versatile meat. From comforting casseroles to soups and even some breakfast-for-dinner-winners, here are the ground sausage recipes that are about to save your weeknights. Related:...

PEA & NAM (1974)  Pea jams a match under the burner. (In English: “Ignite!”) He holds on until the flame licks his nail. A cook’s fingers. He feels nothing! Left hand: one spoon of oil into the wok. Two spoons (“For health,” he whispers in Thai). The sheen catches the noon sun. Right hand: salt, garlic (peeled in the night, before he rubbed down Yai’s feet, her heel-skin cracked and flaking like old garlic bulbs, toes purple from sleeping upright in the wheelchair), bird’s-eye chilies, pork fat thumbed from a jar—all into the clay mortar. Thumps it into a paste...

Today we’re talking about Plant-Based Meat Replacements for the Plant-Based Whole30 Program. Whole30 developed a Plant-Based program to provide an opportunity for vegetarians and vegans to participate in a Whole30 program. An important element for any healthy eating plan is to provide adequate sources of protein. For non-vegetarians, a lot of protein can come from animal sources such as poultry, beef, pork, eggs, dairy, etc. Nowadays there are more and more delicious and nutritious options of meat-like foods that are made from plant-based sources instead of animal. What is Plant-Based Meat? Plant-Based meat means “meat” replacements made from plant-based ingredients...