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• Experienced Teachers Teach Us: Lessons From 18 Years Working With At-Risk Kids
• Hamas puts 'resistance' on Gaza schools curriculum
• Colorado mulls major schools funding change
• Colorado bill vows education overhaul, but will voters raise taxes to fund it?

Experienced Teachers Teach Us: Lessons From 18 Years Working With At-Risk Kids Posted: 05 Nov 2013 01:32 PM PST For 18 years, Sandra Christenson taught at a continuation school in downtown Los Angeles adjacent to a Greyhound bus terminal. She knows first-hand the trials and tribulations facing at-risk students. who knew if I would see them next year?" Christenson says. Some students at Metropolitan Continuation High School had already seen the inside of jail, some were young parents and many were apathetic about education.

Hamas puts 'resistance' on Gaza schools curriculum Posted: 05 Nov 2013 12:25 PM PST Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) - The Gaza Strip's Hamas government said on Tuesday it had added studies to encourage "resistance to Israel" to the territory's public schools curriculum. Courses to "strengthen Palestinian rights, update programmes and add studies on human rights" would be introduced at three levels in secondary schools, Education Minister Muetassem al-Minaui told AFP. The new material, seen by AFP, tells of Israel's winter 2008-2009 and November 2012 military offensives into the Gaza Strip and shows photos of dead Palestinians and of buildings destroyed by Israeli strikes.

Colorado mulls major schools funding change Posted: 05 Nov 2013 07:49 AM PST Colorado voters were deciding on a major change to how public schools are funded Tuesday. A ballot measure asked voters to hike income taxes by about $1 billion a year in exchange for a raft of education ...

Colorado bill vows education overhaul, but will voters raise taxes to fund it? Posted: 04 Nov 2013 05:45 PM PST Voters are being asked to approve a nearly $1 billion income tax increase that would fund a sweeping overhaul of public education in the state. It has attracted national attention and support from teachers unions, the US education secretary, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, as well as vocal opposition from Colorado Republicans and some groups who see it as an unnecessary and expensive new tax that won't necessarily improve education. Generally, says Senator Johnston, taxpayers have just been asked to trust the state on education matters. The Colorado bill that it funds has actually already been passed by both houses of the Colorado legislature, and Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) has signed it, but the law will only take effect if voters also approve the ballot initiative on Tuesday.

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