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• CPS Releases $5.162 Billion Budget, 2 Percent Pay Raise for Employees
• ND oil town's prosperity doesn't reach teachers
• Susan Boyle gets honorary degree from university
• Republican teachers uneasy at Obama-themed union convention
• Kids and Laughing Teachers Bullied Suicide Teen
• GOP teachers balk at Obama-centric NEA convention
• Wash., Wis. win US 'No Child Left Behind' waivers
• Biden Says Teachers 'Under Full Blown Assault' from Romney
• University of Virginia Reinstates President, But Colleges Face More Drama Ahead

CPS Releases $5.162 Billion Budget, 2 Percent Pay Raise for Employees Posted: 06 Jul 2012 01:45 PM PDT According to the Chicago Sun-Times, officials from the Chicago Public Schools (CPS) system on Friday released an extensive budget plan for the 2012-13 school year. The plan includes $5.162 billion worth of spending but a $665 million budget deficit while making some changes that will benefit both students and CPS employees.

ND oil town's prosperity doesn't reach teachers Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:24 PM PDT Jobs paying $80,000 or more abound in North Dakota's booming oil patch, but when Molly Lippert came home from college, she gladly accepted a $31,500-a-year position teaching first grade.

Susan Boyle gets honorary degree from university Posted: 06 Jul 2012 10:53 AM PDT Singing sensation Susan Boyle has been awarded an honorary doctorate from a Scottish university.

Republican teachers uneasy at Obama-themed union convention Posted: 06 Jul 2012 10:23 AM PDT It had all the trappings of a re-election rally: thousands packing a convention center, Barack Obama T-shirts, videos celebrating the health care law, and a wall-size banner with encouraging messages to the incumbent president.

Kids and Laughing Teachers Bullied Suicide Teen Posted: 06 Jul 2012 07:30 AM PDT The suicide of a 13-year-old boy in southern Japan after classmates systematically bullied him — even making him "practice" suicide — while teachers ignored the abuse or laughed has prompted soul-searching among educators across the country. One of the boy's last acts was to text...

GOP teachers balk at Obama-centric NEA convention Posted: 06 Jul 2012 04:02 AM PDT It had all the trappings of a re-election rally: thousands packing a convention center, Barack Obama T-shirts, videos celebrating the health care law, and a wall-size banner with encouraging messages to the incumbent president.

Wash., Wis. win US 'No Child Left Behind' waivers Posted: 06 Jul 2012 12:23 AM PDT The U.S. Department of Education is announcing that two more states have won their bid to be relieved of some requirements of the federal "No Child Left Behind" Law.

Biden Says Teachers 'Under Full Blown Assault' from Romney Posted: 03 Jul 2012 09:14 AM PDT WASHINGTON — Seeking to mobilize support for the November election, Vice President Joe Biden today warned the nation's public school teachers that they are "under full blown assault" from Mitt Romney and the Republican Party. "Gov. Romney and his allies in the Congress, their plan...

University of Virginia Reinstates President, But Colleges Face More Drama Ahead Posted: 26 Jun 2012 12:10 PM PDT Trustees at the University of Virginia voted unanimously on Tuesday to reinstate the president they ousted just two weeks ago. But while the decision to restore Teresa Sullivan to the position she had held since August 2010 brings to an end days of swirling uncertainty, speculation and campus protests, the issues the drama brought to the forefront are likely to echo across college campuses nationwide for months to come.

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