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• Stuck in a ‘Rubber Room’: New York City Teachers and Your Tax Dollars
• NY school's blackface assault skit criticized
• Chicago Unveils Plans to Boost Art, Cultural Opportunities
• NY students satirize Rihanna assault in blackface

Stuck in a ‘Rubber Room’: New York City Teachers and Your Tax Dollars Posted: 16 Oct 2012 04:43 PM PDT The infamous "rubber room," a place where teachers who face disciplinary charges sit, knit, and stare at the wall while collecting their full paycheck, was meant to be abolished in New York in 2010.

NY school's blackface assault skit criticized Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:51 PM PDT A pep rally skit by three white high school students who wore blackface and parodied Chris Brown's arrest for assaulting Rihanna has officials in a largely white New York district vowing to set clearer expectations for school events.

Chicago Unveils Plans to Boost Art, Cultural Opportunities Posted: 16 Oct 2012 02:41 PM PDT According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Mayor Rahm Emanuel has unveiled a plan that would emphasize the arts in the city in a new way. The arts would become a "core subject" in Chicago Public Schools and classes in drama, dance, visual art, and music would be offered at every grade level. In addition, the plan outlines having at least one teacher qualified to teach these subjects at each school.

NY students satirize Rihanna assault in blackface Posted: 16 Oct 2012 01:10 PM PDT A pep rally skit by three white high school students who wore blackface and parodied Chris Brown's arrest for assaulting Rihanna has officials in the largely white New York district vowing to set clearer expectations for school events.

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