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• Financial crisis could disrupt Philadelphia school openings
• Fla. Virtual School lays off hundreds of teachers
• Board outlines salaries for ND college presidents
• How Successful Are Colleges at Graduating Students with Subsidized Stafford Loans?
• Fla. ex-lt. gov to lead Pa. university system
• Buffalo teachers say cleaning up milk is for little people, will keep free plastic surgery
• Jamaica police probe fraud case at teachers union

Financial crisis could disrupt Philadelphia school openings Posted: 08 Aug 2013 03:41 PM PDT (Reuters) - Philadelphia's cash-strapped public schools may not open on time in September unless they get $50 million from the city to rehire some of the 3,800 teachers and staffers laid off because of the district's financial crisis. If the district doesn't receive the money by next Friday, its 218 schools might not open on September 9 as scheduled, or they might open only for half a day, or only some schools might open, Superintendent William Hite said on Thursday. ...

Fla. Virtual School lays off hundreds of teachers Posted: 08 Aug 2013 12:22 PM PDT The Florida Virtual School has laid off several hundred teachers in response to a decline in enrollment and change in funding. The online school cut 177 full-time positions and 625 part-time instructors ...

Board outlines salaries for ND college presidents Posted: 08 Aug 2013 09:25 AM PDT The North Dakota Board of Higher Education will increase salaries for the state's college presidents 3 to 5 percent after a representative group of the board met Wednesday to end an ordeal that started ...

How Successful Are Colleges at Graduating Students with Subsidized Stafford Loans? Posted: 08 Aug 2013 08:00 AM PDT Information about how colleges and universities are serving their entire student populations is in demand, judging from the requests U.S. News receives for it. In October 2012, we answered the question of how successful schools are at graduating low-income students receiving Pell grants; now, we are able to answer the question of how colleges are doing at graduating students receiving subsidized Stafford loans relative to the rest of their student body.

Fla. ex-lt. gov to lead Pa. university system Posted: 08 Aug 2013 07:40 AM PDT Frank T. Brogan, a higher-education executive and former Florida lieutenant governor, was picked Wednesday to be the next chancellor of Pennsylvania's 14-university State System of Higher Education. The ...

Buffalo teachers say cleaning up milk is for little people, will keep free plastic surgery Posted: 08 Aug 2013 07:04 AM PDT The Buffalo Teachers Federation has filed a grievance against the public school district in Buffalo, New York because the district wants to serve breakfast in the classroom.

Jamaica police probe fraud case at teachers union Posted: 08 Aug 2013 05:25 AM PDT Police in Jamaica say they are investigating a significant fraud case at the teachers union and the union's entire accounting staff has been put on leave. The Jamaica Constabulary Force says detectives ...

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