Rektorns insamling till elevdatorer gör succé

Förskolebarnen i Volgsjö skola i Vilhelmina behöver 30 datorer för ett skriv- och läsprojekt. Nu är de en bit på vägen. Rektor Inez Abrahamzon har nämligen startat en insamling som fått ett enormt gensvar.I skrivande stund har Inez Abrahamzon fått in pengar som räcker till sju datorer – och då har det bara gått nio dagar sedan hon startade insamlingen.– Jag är överlycklig, men jag är inte förvånad. När människor får en organisation för att göra skillnad, då vill de göra det, säger en glad Inez Abrahamzon, som är rektor för år F-3 på skolan.Skrev på FacebookTotalt går ett 60-tal förskoleelever på Volgsjö skola, och under hösten ska de prova en metod som utvecklats i Piteå som heter ”skriva sig till läsning”. Projektet ska pågå i tre år och ledas av så kallade förstelärare.Men med den rådande datorbristen på skolan insåg Inez Abrahamzon snabbt att hon inte kunde köpa in de 30 datorer som behövs alla barnen. Hon skrev en status på Facebook om insamlingsidén och fick snabbt positiv respons.– Folk från hela Sverige har skickat pengar, säger Inez Abrahamzon.

Democratic campaign group for Congress confirms computer hack

A committee that raises money for Democratic candidates for the U.S. House of Representatives confirmed on Friday it had been hacked, a cyber intrusion that may be linked to Russian hackers, like an earlier one targeting another Democratic Party group.In an incident likely to raise concerns among party donors about their personal information, Reuters first reported on Thursday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation is probing the hack at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, or DCCC.The committee said it has hired cyber security firm CrowdStrike to investigate. ”We have taken and are continuing to take steps to enhance the security of our network,” the committee said in a statement.”We are cooperating with federal law enforcement with respect to their ongoing investigation,” it said.The DCCC hack may be related to an earlier hack against the Democratic National Committee, whoch raises money and sets strategy for Democratic candidates nationwide. The DNC and DCCC occupy the same office building in Washington.

Stiglitz Calls Apple’s Profit Reporting in Ireland ‘a Fraud’

Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz said U.S. tax law that allows Apple Inc. to hold a large amount of cash abroad is “obviously deficient” and called the company’s attribution of significant earnings to a comparatively small overseas unit a “fraud.”“Our current tax system encourages companies to keep their money abroad, opens up a vast loophole through what is called the transfer-pricing system that allows them not only to keep their money abroad but, effectively, to escape taxation,” Stiglitz, who advises Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, said in a Bloomberg Television interview with Tom Keene.Stiglitz was speaking in response to a question about whether policy makers like Clinton and Senator Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts, could develop a plan to encourage companies like Apple to bring their accumulated foreign earnings back to the U.S. Under current law, companies can defer U.S. income tax on their foreign earnings until they repatriate them, or return them to the U.S.About $215 billion of Apple’s total $232 billion in cash is held outside of the country, third-quarter earnings results showed this week.