2011年3月6日星期日

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


Protesters decry Nevada university budget cuts (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2011 02:15 PM PST

AP - Hundreds of Nevada college students and supporters waved signs decrying looming state higher education budget cuts during a peaceful protest on the Las Vegas Strip.

NY teacher cuts would raise class sizes still more (AP)

Posted: 06 Mar 2011 10:10 AM PST

In a March 3, 2011 photo, students take a test during a Global History class at the Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School, in New York.  As Mayor Michael Bloomberg plans to take more than 6,000 teachers off the payroll to help balance a strained budget, some parent advocates are questioning what the layoffs will do to New York public school class sizes.  (AP Photo/Richard Drew)AP - First Brigette Smith had to take her little boy on a daily commute to another neighborhood, after the schools near her Manhattan home became too crowded to place her son. Now she's being told that when he starts kindergarten next year, he'll be in a classroom with about 24 other kids, and she worries that her son could get lost in the crowd.


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