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• Officials blast Mexican teachers' salaries report
• AP WAS THERE: Original 1954 Brown v. Board story
• Ex-Times editor pulls out of Brandeis commencement

Officials blast Mexican teachers' salaries report Posted: 16 May 2014 03:56 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Education officials and a teachers union on Friday blasted a recent study that found that several Mexican teachers earn more than the country's president, saying it lacks veracity and contains mistakes.

AP WAS THERE: Original 1954 Brown v. Board story Posted: 16 May 2014 12:10 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — EDITOR'S NOTE: On May 17, 1954, a hushed crowd of spectators packed the Supreme Court, awaiting word on Brown v. Board of Education, a combination of five lawsuits brought by the NAACP's legal arm to challenge racial segregation in public schools. The high court decided unanimously that "separate but equal" education denied black children their constitutional right to equal protection under the law, effectively removing a cornerstone that propped up Jim Crow, or state-sanctioned segregation of the races.

Ex-Times editor pulls out of Brandeis commencement Posted: 16 May 2014 09:54 AM PDT Jill Abramson, the recently ousted executive editor of The New York Times, has backed out of attending Brandeis (BRAN'-dys) University's commencement. The Justice student newspaper reports that Abramson ...

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