2012年9月9日星期日

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Parents plan for kids if Chicago teachers strike

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 03:57 PM PDT

Members of the Chicago Teachers Union distribute strike signage at the Chicago Teachers Union strike headquarters on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2012 in Chicago. The union has vowed to strike on Monday, Sept. 10, 2012, should it fail to reach an agreement over teachers' contracts with Chicago Public Schools by that date. (AP Photo/Sitthixay Ditthavong)With Chicago teachers poised to go on strike for the first time in a quarter century, parents spent Sunday worrying about how much their children's education might suffer and where their kids will go while they're at work.

Factbox: Chicago teachers dispute is over school reform, money

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 12:26 PM PDT

(Reuters) - Chicago public school teachers are threatening to strike on Monday for the first time since 1987 in a clash with Mayor Rahm Emanuel that has national implications because many states and cities are grappling with similar tight budgets and underperforming schools. Here are some of the key issues, and the stakes, in the Chicago dispute. NATIONAL SCOPE: A walkout by Chicago teachers would be the largest private- or public-sector strike in the United States in a year. ...

AP Exclusive: Private school vaccine opt-outs rise

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 11:22 AM PDT

In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 20, 2012 school director Debra Lambrecht poses in a classroom at the private Greenwood School in Mill Valley, Calif. California lawmakers are considering a first-in-the-nation bill that would require parents to discuss vaccinations with pediatricians or nurse practitioners before they would be allowed to exempt their children, a move that has angered parents at private schools with high opt-out rates. 80 percent of the students at the school have filed personal belief exemptions to get out of vaccinating their children. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)Parents who send their children to private schools in California are much more likely to opt out of immunizations than their public school counterparts, an Associated Press analysis has found, and not even the recent re-emergence of whooping cough has halted the downward trajectory of vaccinations among these students.

Talks to avert Chicago teachers' strike to resume

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 06:58 AM PDT

Negotiators for Chicago's teachers union and school board plan to resume tense contract talks at 11 a.m. Sunday after reporting some progress on Saturday.

Does a changing economy mean the "End of Men"?

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 05:34 AM PDT

NEW YORK (Reuters) - For all the bluster of her book's title, "The End of Men: And the Rise of Women," Hanna Rosin is surprisingly ambivalent about whether men are, in fact, doomed. Women are quicker to adapt to the economy's new demands, Rosin says, pursuing higher education in record numbers and dominating fast-growing professions such as nursing and accounting. At the same time, men watch the shrinking of manufacturing, construction and other traditionally male industries as if paralyzed, on the couch with a beer in hand. ...

Chicago teachers, school officials resuming talks to avert strike

Posted: 09 Sep 2012 04:06 AM PDT

Thousands of Chicago Public School teachers rally before marching to the Board of Education's headquarters in ChicagoCHICAGO (Reuters) - Negotiations between the Chicago Teachers Union and the nation's third-largest school district were going down to the wire on Sunday, as teachers threaten to strike on Monday over Mayor Rahm Emanuel's demand for sweeping school reforms. Both sides expressed varying degrees of optimism on Saturday night about chances for a resolution, although school district officials sounded more hopeful than union leaders. School board President David Vitale said he thought the district's latest proposal was "very close" to what was needed for a deal. Talks resume on Sunday morning. ...

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