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24 May Silicon Valley’s tech workforce diversity has long way to go, say feds

In recent years, major high-tech firms have started releasing workforce diversity data, along with a promise to improve. And there is much room for improvement, according to federal officials.

23 May NYC mentorship program puts startup staffers in schools

Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn's P.S. 307 in New York. Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students.

23 May EEOC to hold rare public hearing on tech diversity

"The EEOC must take a hard look to determine if discrimination is at play in the tech industry and to vigorously enforce the law," says Rev. Jesse Jackson, the civil rights activist who has pressed the federal agency to investigate the lack of diversity in the industry.

20 May Code Start: Teaching ‘Disconnected Youth’ Tech, Life Skills

The program is ‘’an experiment on whether or not we can take 'disconnected youth' who’ve been labeled by the system, and teach them how to be a junior-level software engineer or developer,” Code Start founder Rodney Sampson said.

20 May Determined Georgia Teens Redesign Mobile App To Grade Quality Of Police Services

Mobile app provides opportunity to strengthen ties between police officers and citizens

20 May NFL star Patrick Willis is thriving in retirement as a Silicon Valley tech worker

CAMPBELL, Calif. — Close your eyes and picture the life of a retired NFL superstar. Maybe you envision a moveable feast — private jets, exclusive parties and beautiful companions. Maybe you see something quieter, day after day in the backyard watching the grass grow.