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• Israeli students go on strike after field trips canceled
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• Protests disrupt Portland school board meet on racial segregation

Israeli students go on strike after field trips canceled Posted: 14 Jan 2015 11:13 AM PST JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's half a million high school students stayed at home Wednesday in an unprecedented nationwide strike against a decision to cancel annual field trips, halting classes across the country before officials agreed to reinstate the activities.

Get a pro to help fill out your FAFSA for free Posted: 14 Jan 2015 10:37 AM PST Thirty-four states are participating in College Goal Sunday this year, a program that provides hundreds of free FAFSA events for parents and high school students.

Protests disrupt Portland school board meet on racial segregation Posted: 13 Jan 2015 08:58 PM PST By Courtney Sherwood PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - A bid to reduce racial and economic segregation in Portland public schools was postponed on Tuesday when a group of protesters stormed a school board meeting and demanded more time to learn about the planned policy changes. The proposed change would limit transfers between schools, which white and affluent families have disproportionately used to remove their children from low-performing schools. School systems across the United States are increasingly segregated along racial and economic lines, 60 years after the U.S. ...

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