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• Hunger strikers protest deep cuts to Philadelphia schools
• W.Va. higher ed panel approves tuition increases
• Wash. state lawmaker tells teachers: quit whining about money, enjoy your summer off

Hunger strikers protest deep cuts to Philadelphia schools Posted: 26 Jun 2013 03:45 PM PDT By Daniel Kelley PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Children wrote letters. Parents staged rallies in Pennsylvania. But Earlene Bly, a hotel housekeeper, didn't feel like anyone was listening. A more dramatic gesture was needed, Bly thought, to protest an austerity budget passed last month that stripped Philadelphia public schools of art and music, nurses and librarians, guidance counselors, assistant principals and hundreds of cafeteria and recess monitors. So the 46-year-old Bly stopped eating. ...

W.Va. higher ed panel approves tuition increases Posted: 26 Jun 2013 09:04 AM PDT In-state tuition is increasing at least 6 percent at five West Virginia higher education institutions. The Higher Education Policy Commission approved tuition increases on Tuesday for the 2013-2014 academic ...

Wash. state lawmaker tells teachers: quit whining about money, enjoy your summer off Posted: 26 Jun 2013 05:36 AM PDT Washington state rep. Liz Pike has unleashed the fury of teachers and schoolmarms in general across The Evergreen State after she suggested in a Facebook post that teachers who want to make more money should find a different line of work.

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