2011年9月18日星期日

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


Tentative deal for teachers union, Pa. archdiocese (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 04:00 PM PDT

AP - Negotiators for Philadelphia's lay Catholic school teachers and the archdiocese said Sunday that they have reached a tentative agreement for a new contract that could end the two-week-long teachers' strike over issues of job security and working conditions.

Even when town mergers make sense, voters fight (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 12:22 PM PDT

In this Aug. 11, 2011 photo, a shopper browses through merchandise at the Princeton University school store in Princeton, N.J. Residents of the Borough of Princeton and Princeton Township will vote this fall on whether to merge. For years, governors have pushed municipal consolidation but the fight in Princeton, which with a combined population of about 30,000 would be such a natural fit together, shows just how hard it is to get New Jerseyans to make such a change. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)AP - Fewer than 30,000 people call Princeton home, but two of them are mayors. There are also two police chiefs, two treasurers, two administrators and two public works superintendents in this community best known for its Ivy League university.


UMass gives scholarships to bullied boy's siblings (AP)

Posted: 18 Sep 2011 10:16 AM PDT

AP - The University of Massachusetts says it is offering full scholarships to the siblings of a Springfield boy who hanged himself in 2009 after incessant bullying at school.
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