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District appeals ruling sparing teachers from health costs Posted: 23 Feb 2015 12:02 PM PST Philadelphia's public school system is asking the state Supreme Court to reverse a lower court ruling that bars it from unilaterally imposing health care costs on unionized teachers.

Boston schools to reflect on city's violent past with desegregation Posted: 23 Feb 2015 10:36 AM PST By Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Four decades after a U.S. judge ordered Boston to desegregate its schools, sparking a wave of violent protest, the incident is set to formally become a part of the history curriculum in the city's public schools. While Boston Public Schools have long included desegregation and race relations in history and social studies courses, the lessons have largely focused on events in the southeastern United States. "We're not going to let Boston off the hook any longer," Kerry Dunne, director of history and social studies at the Boston Public Schools, said on Monday. In 1974, a federal court in Boston ruled that public schools in the Massachusetts capital were in violation of the 1965 Racial Imbalance Act and needed to even out classroom demographics by busing students to schools outside their neighborhoods.

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