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• Teachers set strike deadline in contract dispute in Portland, Oregon
• Thirty Minnesota school children treated for carbon monoxide
• School's out for thousands; Oregon teachers strike
• More students moving to private schools in Ala.
• U.S. News to Discuss Obama's College Ratings at Washington Meeting
• Portland, Oregon, teachers vote to authorize strike

Teachers set strike deadline in contract dispute in Portland, Oregon Posted: 06 Feb 2014 04:24 PM PST By Teresa Carson PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Portland teachers put Oregon's largest school district on formal notice Thursday that they intend to go on strike February 20, disrupting classes for nearly 48,000 students, unless the two sides reach agreement by then on a new contract. Rank-and-file instructors in the 2,800-member Portland Association of Teachers voted overwhelmingly on Wednesday night to authorize union leaders to call a strike if talks collapse in a labor dispute centered on staffing levels and wages. Students at several Portland high schools staged walkouts from classes on Thursday to show support for the teachers. Bill Wilson, chairman of the union's bargaining committee, said that formal notification was delivered to the district Thursday morning.

Thirty Minnesota school children treated for carbon monoxide Posted: 06 Feb 2014 04:07 PM PST (Reuters) - Thirty students from an elementary school in southern Minnesota were treated Thursday at a local hospital for possible carbon monoxide poisoning, a hospital spokesman said. None of the injuries were life threatening and all but one child from the Springfield Public Schools had been treated and released by late Thursday afternoon from Mayo Clinic Health System in Springfield, system spokesman Kevin Burns said. Springfield is about 100 miles southwest of Minneapolis. A representative of Springfield Public Schools could not be reached immediately for comment.

School's out for thousands; Oregon teachers strike Posted: 06 Feb 2014 02:22 PM PST PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — More than 13,000 students were out of school Thursday —and likely will remain so through Monday— after teachers in southern Oregon's largest district went on strike.

More students moving to private schools in Ala. Posted: 06 Feb 2014 01:50 PM PST More students are moving from public to private schools with the help of scholarships provided by groups that were able to raise the maximum amount of money allowed by Alabama law. The leader of one of ...

U.S. News to Discuss Obama's College Ratings at Washington Meeting Posted: 06 Feb 2014 06:51 AM PST Today I will be speaking as one of the invited participants at the U.S. Department of Education's "Symposium on Postsecondary Institution Ratings Systems," in Washington, D.C. We all are expected to comment on the methodology and types of data that could be used in President Barack Obama's plan calling for the creation of college ratings for consumers, if Congress approves a financial aid funding mechanism. U.S. News welcomes the possibility of Obama's college ratings, since they could lead to better data for consumers -- especially more robust data on student indebtedness, earnings and job attainment after graduation and more comprehensive graduation rate measures -- being made available for the first time. The proposed federal college ratings are not intended to measure academic quality. I plan to stress that now that the department intends to publish high-stakes college ratings and a financial aid funding mechanism, it must use its power to take a much tougher stance and stop ongoing data misreporting by some colleges.

Portland, Oregon, teachers vote to authorize strike Posted: 05 Feb 2014 09:30 PM PST By Teresa Carson PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) - Teachers in Portland, Oregon's largest school district, voted Wednesday night to authorize a strike, setting the stage for a walkout that could disrupt classes for nearly 48,000 students, union officials said. Portland's 2,828 teachers have been engaged for months in contentious off-and-on negotiations with the district on a new three-year contract, and the strike authorization vote clears the way for a strike on February 20 if no settlement is reached, the Portland Association of Teachers said late Wednesday. It said the strike authorization was approved by an overwhelming majority, but the vote count was not disclosed. School district officials are "deeply disappointed" that teachers voted to authorize a strike, Christine Miles, spokeswoman for Portland Public Schools, said in an interview with Reuters.

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