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• New York City public schools stealthily gave thousands of teens free morning-after pills
• Hawaii School Teachers Need a Contract
• Slain Newtown educators to be honored with medals
• Arming Tennessee Teachers in 2013: An Option We Need to Consider
• Two California students lose fingers in tug-of-war
• Experts: Alabama to see more money for education
• Nixon reverses $8.5M in cuts to higher education
• Two students get fingers torn off during tug-of-war
• Low-Skill Jobs with the Highest Concentration of College Graduates
• Judge: Texas school finance plan unconstitutional
• South Africa's ANC picks fight with teachers union

New York City public schools stealthily gave thousands of teens free morning-after pills Posted: 05 Feb 2013 04:11 PM PST Students in New York public schools can frolic in all the unprotected sex they want without fretting over the natural consequences, thanks to the largesse of the Bloomberg administration.

Hawaii School Teachers Need a Contract Posted: 05 Feb 2013 03:17 PM PST COMMENTARY | Hawaii's school teachers have their work cut out for them. Hawaii's kids continue to lag behind national averages on standardized tests for reading, science, and math. The school teachers have been working without a contract for more than 17 months due to multiple failed contract negotiations.

Slain Newtown educators to be honored with medals Posted: 05 Feb 2013 02:18 PM PST HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Presidential medals will be awarded posthumously to the six people who died protecting children at Sandy Hook Elementary School, officials said Tuesday.

Arming Tennessee Teachers in 2013: An Option We Need to Consider Posted: 05 Feb 2013 02:09 PM PST COMMENTARY | There are no easy answers to the problem of gun violence in America's schools. This year, my state, Tennessee, will be considering a bill that would lift the restrictions against teachers and administrators carrying guns on school grounds. If passed into law, HB0006 would make Tennessee the 19th state that allows civilian exceptions to the federal prohibition of guns in school zones (Federal Gun Free Schools Zone Act, FGFZA) put in place in 1990. Gun-free zones are counter-productive, imposing unfair burdens on the community and leaving schools open to unopposed gun violence. ...

Two California students lose fingers in tug-of-war Posted: 05 Feb 2013 01:51 PM PST LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Two Los Angeles-area high school students had fingers severed while taking part in a "spirit week" group tug-of-war contest, authorities said on Tuesday. A boy and a girl from South El Monte High School were rushed to a local trauma center on Monday afternoon after their fingers were cut off during the tug-of-war at lunchtime, fire and school district officials said. The students have undergone surgery to reattach the severed digits, El Monte Union High School District Superintendent Nick Salerno said. ...

Experts: Alabama to see more money for education Posted: 05 Feb 2013 11:30 AM PST The top financial experts for the Legislature and governor agreed Tuesday that Alabama will have more money to spend on public schools in the next state education budget.But they disagreed about the state ...

Nixon reverses $8.5M in cuts to higher education Posted: 05 Feb 2013 07:49 AM PST Gov. Jay Nixon reversed an $8.5 million funding cut to Missouri public colleges and universities on Monday while citing improved state tax revenues.The funding for higher education institutions, which ...

Two students get fingers torn off during tug-of-war Posted: 05 Feb 2013 06:40 AM PST Two California high school students lost fingers on Monday during a school-sponsored game of tug-of-war, according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.

Low-Skill Jobs with the Highest Concentration of College Graduates Posted: 05 Feb 2013 06:38 AM PST The Center for College Affordability and Productivity released a study last week confirming what many recent college graduates have known for a long time: a large proportion of grads are working in jobs that don't require a college degree. What we didn't know was the situation may have been worse than we realized.

Judge: Texas school finance plan unconstitutional Posted: 05 Feb 2013 05:50 AM PST The system Texas uses to fund public schools violates the state's constitution by not providing enough money to school districts and failing to distribute it fairly, a judge ruled Monday in a landmark ...

South Africa's ANC picks fight with teachers union Posted: 04 Feb 2013 09:38 PM PST JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's African National Congress wants to make strikes illegal for teachers as it tries to improve a creaking education system and woo young voters before next year's election A senior official described the strikes, which waste weeks of teaching time each year, as threatening the "survival of society", setting the ruling party on a collision course with its traditional union allies. ...

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