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• Teachers protest over north Kenya insecurity
• Race row sparks probe at South African private schools
• Can I Afford to Send My Child to Private School?
• 700 teachers refuse to work in Kenya's north over terror

Teachers protest over north Kenya insecurity Posted: 03 Feb 2015 10:58 AM PST Teachers working in Kenya's restive north, where a group of their colleagues were massacred late last year by Somalia's Shebab Islamists, protested in the capital Tuesday to demand a transfer. We are traumatised," said John Osoro, a secondary school teacher who works in Wajir, close to the border with Somalia. Kenya's northeast is Muslim-majority, although most state employees are generally from Christian-majority areas elsewhere in the country. Attacks by the Shebab against the northeastern towns of Wajir, Mandera and Garissa have intensified since Kenya sent troops into Somalia in 2011.

Race row sparks probe at South African private schools Posted: 03 Feb 2015 10:10 AM PST South African education and human rights authorities said Tuesday they had launched investigations into racism at private schools after parents at one school complained that black and white pupils were segregated. The probe was ordered after 30 parents of children at Curro Foundation School - a pre-primary school in Pretoria wrote a petition last month condemning the splitting of classes based on race. "The sector needs to be regulated," said Panyaza Lesufi, the provincial education minister for Gauteng, the country's most populous province which houses the economic hub Johannesburg and the capital Pretoria. Under South Africa's former apartheid system, which ended with the country's first democratic elections in 1994, racial segregation was the norm in all walks of life.

Can I Afford to Send My Child to Private School? Posted: 03 Feb 2015 09:53 AM PST Sure as the Earth orbits the sun, private school will always be expensive. Everyone is going to have opinions about whether private school is necessary, and how much is reasonable to spend on a child's education -- especially since tuition varies greatly depending on where you live. If you call Connecticut home, for instance, you'll pay an average annual tuition of $20,905 for your child to attend a private school, compared with $6,583 in Michigan, according to PrivateSchoolReview.com. The Council for American Private Education reports that there are 30,861 private schools in the U.S. -- and that number doesn't include military or boarding schools (which can cost as much as $5,000 a month to $60,000 a year, respectively).

700 teachers refuse to work in Kenya's north over terror Posted: 03 Feb 2015 05:46 AM PST NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of teachers in northern Kenya bordering Somalia have refused to return to work, fearing attacks by Islamic extremists, a union official and teachers said Tuesday.

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