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• Seattle students start school with teachers strike suspended
• Students suspended for clothing displaying Confederate flag
• Why are US teachers so white?
• Student suspended over Confederate symbol vows to stand his ground
• 10 Colleges That Receive the Most Applications
• Schoolchildren, teachers at mercy of gangs in violent El Salvador
• Seattle teachers' tentative deal tackles issues beyond pay

Seattle students start school with teachers strike suspended Posted: 17 Sep 2015 04:06 PM PDT SEATTLE (AP) — Yellow school buses rolled through Seattle's streets and noisy schoolchildren packed playgrounds again as thousands of students started the school year Thursday that was delayed by a weeklong teachers strike.

Students suspended for clothing displaying Confederate flag Posted: 17 Sep 2015 03:53 PM PDT About 20 western Virginia high school students were suspended Thursday after holding a rally to protest a new policy banning vehicles with Confederate flag symbols from the school parking lot and refusing to take off clothing displaying the symbol.

Why are US teachers so white? Posted: 17 Sep 2015 02:46 PM PDT The Shanker Institute on Wednesday released an in-depth report on teacher diversity, or the lack thereof, in the US. Over 25 years, from 1987 to 2012, minority teachers have actually grown as a percentage of the teaching workforce, from 12 to 17 percent.

Student suspended over Confederate symbol vows to stand his ground Posted: 17 Sep 2015 01:30 PM PDT More than 20 Virginia high school students were suspended Thursday for wearing clothes emblazoned with the Confederate flag. At Christiansburg High School in southwestern Virginia, it is against the dress code to wear anything that could "reflect adversely on persons due to race," specifically "clothing with Confederate flag symbols." Montgomery County schools spokeswoman Brenda Drake told The Washington Post that Confederate flags have been banned at the school since 2002, after a series of racially motivated fights, some of which were provoked by students wearing the symbols. Ms. Drake told WSLS 10 News that initially, the 23 students had the opportunity to comply with the dress code when they walked into school.

10 Colleges That Receive the Most Applications Posted: 17 Sep 2015 06:30 AM PDT The U.S. News Short List, separate from our overall rankings, is a regular series that magnifies individual data points in hopes of providing students and parents a way to find which undergraduate or graduate programs excel or have room to grow in specific areas. Be sure to explore The Short List: College, The Short List: Grad School and The Short List: Online Programs to find data that matter to you in your college or grad school search.

Schoolchildren, teachers at mercy of gangs in violent El Salvador Posted: 17 Sep 2015 02:14 AM PDT By Anastasia Moloney BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Veteran Salvadoran head teacher Francisco Zelada is used to working in the shadow of death threats and violence, part of the rising tide of gang violence in El Salvador that has carved up city neighborhoods and made targets of teachers and children. Zelada, who runs a small school in Planes de Mariona in the capital's northern suburbs, says that in the past two years he has received several death threats from gang members, some sent by text message, others a menacing voice on his mobile phone. Some schools and the areas around them are totally controlled by gangs," Zelada told the Thomson Reuters Foundation in a telephone interview in the capital, San Salvador.

Seattle teachers' tentative deal tackles issues beyond pay Posted: 16 Sep 2015 03:44 PM PDT Striking Seattle teachers who reached a tentative contract deal tapped into the concerns of the community to win unusual concessions: guaranteed 30-minute recess and teams created to address race and equity ...

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