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• California teachers fund reviewing private equity gun investment
• Hungarian students rally against state financing cuts
• Obama Leaves Message for Newtown Teachers
• 'Fiscal cliff' cuts to job training for young people would cost taxpayers dearly
• Should Student Loan Documents Come With Warning Labels?
• Educators on edge as children go back to school in U.S.
• Connecticut Schools on Lockdown Due to 'Suspicious Person'
• Should teachers be armed?

California teachers fund reviewing private equity gun investment Posted: 17 Dec 2012 04:50 PM PST NEW YORK (Reuters) - The California State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) said on Monday it was reviewing its investment with Cerberus Capital Management LP, the private equity firm that controls Bushmaster Firearms International, in light of last week's school shooting in Connecticut. With $155 billion in assets under management, CalSTRS is the largest teachers' fund and the second-largest pension fund in the United States, making it a powerful voice in the investment community that may influence others in reaction to the shooting. ...

Hungarian students rally against state financing cuts Posted: 17 Dec 2012 01:31 PM PST BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Thousands of Hungarian students rallied on Monday, piling pressure on the government to give up plans for cuts in state financing to higher education. The protesters marched through central Budapest to the public radio station which broadcast a summary of demands from the students who sang the national anthem in the rain outside. This was the third big rally against education reform plans since the government decided on sharp cuts in higher education earlier this month. ...

Obama Leaves Message for Newtown Teachers Posted: 17 Dec 2012 12:17 PM PST Visiting Newtown High School Sunday, President Obama personally responded to a note that two teachers left for him on their classroom whiteboard. The note, which was signed by "Steve George, teacher/football coach" and "Bobby Pattison, teacher," read: "Dear President Obama, The Newtown community is so...

'Fiscal cliff' cuts to job training for young people would cost taxpayers dearly Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:20 AM PST Almost 5 million people under age 30 are looking for work. Millions have gone back to school only to face skyrocketing college tuition and few opportunities upon graduation. Not surprisingly, a national poll of 18- to 34-year-olds found that almost half of our fellow Millennials fears they will end up worse off than their parents. And now, the so-called fiscal cliff threatens to bring the latest round of devastating setbacks to this country's young people.

Should Student Loan Documents Come With Warning Labels? Posted: 17 Dec 2012 10:14 AM PST As a financial planner, I'm often asked by new clients how to pay for their child's college education.

Educators on edge as children go back to school in U.S. Posted: 17 Dec 2012 09:41 AM PST (Reuters) - Cautious educators and police locked down schools at the first hint of trouble on Monday as nervous parents sent their kids back to school for the first time since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. Educators fearful of "copycats" or troublemakers who might phone in empty threats grappled with how to respond and whether to discuss Friday's shootings with children. Safety was balanced against concerns over frightening children unnecessarily. Politicians debated whether to fortify schools with armed guards. ...

Connecticut Schools on Lockdown Due to 'Suspicious Person' Posted: 17 Dec 2012 07:20 AM PST Public schools in the neighboring towns of Ridgefield, Redding, and Easton, Connecticut, are on lockdown after a resident reported seeing a man possibly carrying a rifle near the Branchville School in Ridgefield Monday morning. Police are searching the area, but no threats have been made and no one has been found with that description yet. Ridgefield is about 20 miles from Newtown, where Friday's shooting took place.

Should teachers be armed? Posted: 17 Dec 2012 01:35 AM PST A Texas congressman sparks a heated debate by suggesting that Sandy Hook Elementary's principal might have saved lives if she had an assault rifle in her office

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