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• After teachers strike, doubts about implications
• Analysis: Options limited to finance Chicago teachers contract
• NY community colleges get funds for job training
• Chicago teachers strike ends, but political fallout is just beginning
• Chicago Students Return to School as Teachers End Strike
• Chicago teachers’ test scores worse than Illinois students
• Kenya Finmin says striking teachers' pay demands unsustainable
• Historically black Ala. colleges get big grants
• Chicago's teachers' strike ends: Winners and losers
• Factbox: Details of agreement between Mayor Emanuel and Chicago teachers
• House Republicans Support Smith’s STEM Bill
• Analysis: Tough tactics leave Emanuel bruised in fight with Chicago teachers
• Chicago strike: It's back to school as teachers accept key reforms
• Chicago Teachers Vote to End Strike

After teachers strike, doubts about implications Posted: 19 Sep 2012 04:47 PM PDT Mayor Rahm Emanuel secured an extension of Chicago's school day and empowered principals to hire the teachers they want. Teachers were able to soften a new evaluation process and win some job protections.

Analysis: Options limited to finance Chicago teachers contract Posted: 19 Sep 2012 02:54 PM PDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago public school teachers returned to their classrooms on Wednesday but thorny questions remained over how Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the cash-strapped school system will pay for the tentative contract that ended a strike of more than a week. The three-year contract, which has an option for a fourth year and which awaits a ratification vote by the 29,000-member Chicago Teachers Union, calls for an average 17.6 percent pay raise over four years and some benefit improvements. ...

NY community colleges get funds for job training Posted: 19 Sep 2012 12:35 PM PDT The federal government is providing $14.6 million to 23 community colleges in New York to enhance job-training programs while other colleges statewide are expected to benefit from private investment linked to the grants.

Chicago teachers strike ends, but political fallout is just beginning Posted: 19 Sep 2012 11:04 AM PDT The strike is over. Some 350,000 Chicago children can go back to school Wednesday. But its effects are likely to reverberate – both nationally as well as in Chicago – for some time.

Chicago Students Return to School as Teachers End Strike Posted: 19 Sep 2012 10:57 AM PDT According to the Associated Press , Chicago public school students are headed back to the classroom Wednesday as the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) voted to end its seven-day strike. The decision was made Tuesday night as union delegates voted to cease the walkout as they discussed the tentative agreement proposed by the school board. Approximately 350,000 elementary, middle, and high school students were displaced by the strike, which left parents to search for alternative accommodations.

Chicago teachers’ test scores worse than Illinois students Posted: 19 Sep 2012 10:34 AM PDT The Chicago Public Schools teachers' union agreed Tuesday to end the strike and accept some of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's reforms in exchange for pay increases that would bring the average teacher's salary to $100,000 a year.

Kenya Finmin says striking teachers' pay demands unsustainable Posted: 19 Sep 2012 08:39 AM PDT NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's economy cannot fund the wage increases striking teachers are calling for and meeting their demands would require hiking taxes or the government borrowing more cash, the country's finance minister said on Wednesday. A nationwide teaching strike is now in its third week and has paralysed state-run primary and secondary schools, while university lecturers joined in later bringing public higher education institutions to a halt. ...

Historically black Ala. colleges get big grants Posted: 19 Sep 2012 08:18 AM PDT The U.S. Department of Education is awarding millions in grants to historically black colleges in Alabama.

Chicago's teachers' strike ends: Winners and losers Posted: 19 Sep 2012 05:13 AM PDT The Windy City's public school teachers are back in the classroom, after a controversial work stoppage that brought education reform into the national spotlightThe Chicago Teachers Union has reached an agreement with the city for a new three-year contract (with an option for a fourth), ending a tense seven-day strike that forced 350,000 children to stay at home. ...

Factbox: Details of agreement between Mayor Emanuel and Chicago teachers Posted: 19 Sep 2012 04:23 AM PDT (Reuters) - Chicago Teachers Union delegates meet on Tuesday to vote on whether to call off a strike, now in its second week, and allow schools to reopen on Wednesday. Here are highlights of the new contract, according to a statements by the union, the school district and Mayor Rahm Emanuel: * Teachers get a 3 percent raise this year, 2 percent in the second and third years, and could extend the contract to a fourth year by mutual agreement with a 3 percent raise. The new contract also preserves some automatic pay raises, or "step" increases, based on experience. ...

House Republicans Support Smith’s STEM Bill Posted: 19 Sep 2012 03:10 AM PDT A group of House members introduced legislation on Tuesday that would make it easier for foreign students who graduate from U.S. universities with advanced degrees in science, technology, engineering, or math to stay in the United States.

Analysis: Tough tactics leave Emanuel bruised in fight with Chicago teachers Posted: 18 Sep 2012 07:04 PM PDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - There is room to debate who won the battle between Chicago and its striking teachers union but there is little disagreement the strike and the deal approved by union members on Tuesday mark a personal loss for Mayor Rahm Emanuel. University of California-Berkeley professor and labor historian Harley Shaiken described the deal as a win for both sides, saying the teachers "won overall on points" because they maintained public support and got a compromise deal. ...

Chicago strike: It's back to school as teachers accept key reforms Posted: 18 Sep 2012 06:12 PM PDT A strike by Chicago schoolteachers that left most Chicago public schools shuttered for seven days ended late Tuesday afternoon after 800 union delegates voted to sign off on a negotiated three-year contract that Mayor Rahm Emanuel hailed as constituting "an honest compromise."

Chicago Teachers Vote to End Strike Posted: 18 Sep 2012 03:52 PM PDT Teachers and Students Will Be Back in Classrooms Wednesday

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