2015年8月13日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Education News


Ex-NYC schools chancellor named monitor of suburban district

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 04:16 PM PDT

Former New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott addresses a community meeting in Suffern, N.Y., on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015, after being appointed monitor in the East Ramapo school district. Walcott will examine tension between the school board, which is dominated by Orthodox Jews who don't use the public schools, and the mostly black or Hispanic families with students in the public school. Behind Walcott is school board President Yehuda Weissmandl. (AP Photo/Jim Fitzgerald).SUFFERN, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott was appointed Thursday to monitor a suburban school district in which public school families, mostly black or Hispanic, claim they're being shortchanged by the school board, which is dominated by Orthodox Jews who don't use the public schools.


Prosecutor: Scam charity duped students, pocketed their pay

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 02:19 PM PDT

Prosecutors say more than 100 New York high school students and dozens more in Chicago, Houston and Nashville, Tennessee, have been cheated out of promised paychecks by a "scam" charity. The ...

Bid to keep pork substitutes on French school menus rebuffed

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 05:27 AM PDT

PARIS (AP) — A leader of France's top Muslim organization is criticizing a court decision that could jeopardize a decades-old policy in which public schools offer substitutes to pork when the meat turns up on lunch menus.

Hillary Clinton’s Smorgasbord Approach to Student Loans

Posted: 13 Aug 2015 03:09 AM PDT

Hillary Clinton's Smorgasbord Approach to Student LoansHillary Clinton excels at devising policies tailored to appeal to wide swaths of the electorate, and her latest major proposal—reforming higher-education financing—is no exception. The plan is largely stitched together from other recent efforts to address the daunting $1.2 trillion owed by Americans with student loans, incorporating popular ideas from both sides of the aisle.


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