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• Philadelphia schools to open on schedule despite shortfall
• Union chief: Teachers felt rushed after Newtown
• How Immigrants Without Legal Status Can Pay for College
• Powers Rangers to morph into theaters in 2016

Philadelphia schools to open on schedule despite shortfall Posted: 15 Aug 2014 02:03 PM PDT By Sean Landis PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - Philadelphia's cash-strapped public schools will open on schedule in three weeks after $32 million of budget cuts, the school district's superintendent said on Friday, easing fears of closures or a late start to the school year to save money. Calling the budget cuts the "least harmful" option, Superintendent William Hite said the cuts would require the district to scale back on cleaning and repairs, leave current police vacancies unfilled and halt bus transportation for high school students who live within two miles of school, affecting about 7,500 students. Parents and teachers had feared a repeat of the school closures and massive layoffs of previous years. Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett was also withholding about $45 million in state funding in a move to extract concessions from unionized teachers.

Union chief: Teachers felt rushed after Newtown Posted: 15 Aug 2014 12:32 PM PDT HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Teachers felt they were rushed into returning to the classroom following the 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the president of the local teachers union said Friday.

How Immigrants Without Legal Status Can Pay for College Posted: 15 Aug 2014 05:00 AM PDT More than 1 million immigrant children without legal status reportedly live in the United States. Two major barriers -- a lack of information and assistance -- often prevent immigrant teens without legal permission from continuing their education, says Laura Bohorquez, coordinator of the DREAM Educational Empowerment Program at United We Dream, a nonprofit immigrant advocacy organization. "Unfortunately, we're still getting a lot of questions from students thinking that because they're undocumented, they can't access higher education," Bohorquez says. Students without legal status have options, though, including laws at the state level that allow some noncitizens to receive in-state tuition at state colleges and universities, and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an executive order issued by President Barack Obama that gives some young immigrants -- often referred to as DREAMers -- temporary resident status and a pathway to work legally.

Powers Rangers to morph into theaters in 2016 Posted: 14 Aug 2014 08:48 AM PDT Announced in May, the new film adaptation of the famous 1990s TV series now has a release date: July 22, 2016. Produced by Lionsgate and Saban, the feature is scripted by Robert Orci ("The Amazing Spider-Man 2") and by "X-Men: First Class" screenwriters Zack Stentz and Ashley Miller. It will explore the origin story of the "Power Rangers," the group of ordinary high school students who become endowed with extraordinary powers. Based on the Japanese series "Super Sentai," the American "Power Rangers" franchise invaded the small screen and the shelves of toy stores in the 1990s.

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