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• Calif. teachers fund moves to divest from firearms
• Schools to close Friday as Ontario elementary teachers stage one-day protest
• Hamas flagship university grooms Hebrew teachers
• Correction: Gates Foundation-Teachers story
• 27% Think Teachers Should Carry Guns
• Wisconsin teachers sue school district over allegedly illegal contract provisions

Calif. teachers fund moves to divest from firearms Posted: 09 Jan 2013 04:14 PM PST The nation's largest teacher pension fund took the first step Wednesday toward divesting from companies that make guns and high-capacity ammunition magazines that are illegal in California.State Treasurer ...

Schools to close Friday as Ontario elementary teachers stage one-day protest Posted: 09 Jan 2013 02:40 PM PST TORONTO - Many public elementary schools in Ontario will shut their doors Friday when tens of thousands of elementary teachers and education workers walk out over the governing Liberals' decision to impose new collective agreements.

Hamas flagship university grooms Hebrew teachers Posted: 09 Jan 2013 01:03 PM PST GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Hamas' flagship university in Gaza has a new diploma on offer — Hebrew, the official language of its arch-foe Israel.

Correction: Gates Foundation-Teachers story Posted: 09 Jan 2013 11:21 AM PST SEATTLE (AP) -- In a Jan. 9 story about a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation report, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Hillsborough County Public Schools in Florida includes St. Petersburg. St. ...

27% Think Teachers Should Carry Guns Posted: 09 Jan 2013 10:18 AM PST In the wake of the Newtown shootings, the NRA has called for armed guards in schools, state legislators from Arizona to Georgia pushed to arm principals, and hundreds of teachers are learning to handle and fire a gun. But a new Public Policy Polling survey shows that just a quarter of Americans support giving teachers guns, with NRA support dropping below 50 percent and support for its armed-guard plan narrow even amongst Republicans.

Wisconsin teachers sue school district over allegedly illegal contract provisions Posted: 09 Jan 2013 12:51 AM PST Wisconsin, seemingly a national hothouse for battles over the power of public employee unions, is at it again.

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