2012年7月6日星期五

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


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

In this June 8, 2012, McVay Elementary school in Williston, N.D., is shown. To keep pace with the expected influx of students, school officials are hiring 52 new teachers, adding dozens of modular classrooms and reopening McVay Elementary that shuttered a dozen years ago due to declining enrollment after the region's first oil boom went bust. (AP Photo/Williston Herald, Jackson Bolstad)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

Wearing a shirt that says "Educators for Obama 2012," Marsha Fabian, a teacher, of Lancaster, Penn., claps during the National Education Association's annual convention in Washington, on Thursday, July 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)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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