2009年6月13日星期六

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News

Layoffs mean LA schools lose new breed of teachers (AP)

Posted: 13 Jun 2009 11:35 AM PDT

In this Wednesday, June 3, 2009 photo, Sean Leys, a high school teacher who is on a hunger strike, rests in a tent outside John Liechty Middle School in Los Angeles. Nine days into a hunger strike, English teacher Sean Leys is having trouble standing all day in front of his classroom and fending off students teasing him with his favorite pizza bagels. But the Lincoln High school teacher says the effort is worth it to draw attention to what he sees as inequity in the layoffs of 2,500 of his colleagues in the Los Angeles Unified School District, which faces a $600 million budget shortfall. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Sean Leys sat huddled and still in a tent on a sidewalk outside of a Los Angeles middle school, fatigued by an ongoing hunger strike but resolved to protest looming teacher layoffs.

268 punished for abusing disabled in Texas (AP)

Posted: 12 Jun 2009 07:07 PM PDT

AP - Nearly 270 employees were fired or suspended for abusing or neglecting residents of large, state-run institutions for the mentally disabled in Texas during the last fiscal year, according to records obtained by The Associated Press.

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