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• Radical teachers vow to block Mexican midterm elections
• High school kids may drink less where rules for adults are stricter
• Chicago schools chief resigns amid federal probe
• 4 Challenges of Pursuing an Online Graduate Degree in Education
• French minister warns against 'militant secularity'
• Florida public schools to spy on students' social media, report says

Radical teachers vow to block Mexican midterm elections Posted: 01 Jun 2015 02:36 PM PDT MEXICO CITY (AP) — Members of a radical Mexican teachers union broke into or blockaded electoral offices in the southern state of Oaxaca on Monday amid threats to block this weekend's midterm elections.

High school kids may drink less where rules for adults are stricter Posted: 01 Jun 2015 02:15 PM PDT By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) - In states with stronger alcohol policies, high school students tend to report less drinking, even when the policies don't target youth directly, according to a new study. The findings support the Institute of Medicine, which says strategies to reduce and prevent underage drinking must target parents and adults, the authors wrote in the journal Pediatrics. "This is the first study to examine possible effects of all state alcohol control policies collectively, and the subset of state policies most relevant to underage drinking," said Mallie J. Paschall of the Prevention Research Center at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation in Oakland, California.

Chicago schools chief resigns amid federal probe Posted: 01 Jun 2015 08:48 AM PDT By Suzannah Gonzales CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Barbara Byrd-Bennett has resigned amid a federal probe into a contract the district awarded to her previous employer, the mayor's office said on Monday. "I am saddened by the circumstances that have led to Barbara's resignation and I wish her well," Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said in a statement. "As a city, our focus must remain on finishing the school year strong and tackling the billion-dollar budget deficit that threatens the progress our students, teachers, principals and parents have made over the last several years," Emanuel said.

4 Challenges of Pursuing an Online Graduate Degree in Education Posted: 01 Jun 2015 05:30 AM PDT Education master's and certification programs are among the most popular in online graduate education. In fact, two out of every nine online graduate students are specializing in education, according to a 2014 survey by Aslanian Market Research and The Learning House Inc., which provides custom-built online courses and other services to higher education clients. Below are four of those potential obstacles, combined with examples of how some students have overcome them.

French minister warns against 'militant secularity' Posted: 31 May 2015 05:14 PM PDT France's education minister on Monday warned against "militant secularity" in a country where a long-standing ban on veils, Jewish kippahs and other religious signs in schools continues to cause controversy. "We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularity in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see adhere to secularity," Najat Vallaud-Belkacem told reporters. In 2004, spooked that the growing number of Muslim girls wearing headscarves in public schools was eroding this separation, the government brought in a controversial law on secularity that banned students from wearing "conspicuous" signs of religion.

Florida public schools to spy on students' social media, report says Posted: 29 May 2015 04:26 PM PDT Technically Incorrect: The Orange County Public Schools District reportedly gets software for monitoring posts made by students, saying it wants to anticipate and prevent cyberbullying and other crime.

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