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• Chicago asks school teachers to take 7 percent pay cut: union
• Watch What the World Would Look Like Without Any Teachers
• Thousands of Seattle teachers to hold one-day walkout over pay, class sizes

Chicago asks school teachers to take 7 percent pay cut: union Posted: 05 May 2015 02:32 PM PDT By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Three years after a public school strike, Chicago teacher contract talks are off to a rocky start, with the debt-burdened district demanding a 7 percent pay cut, union officials said on Tuesday. The Chicago Teachers Union said in a statement it was "highly insulted" by the district's demands, which include increases in health insurance premiums. Getting to a new contract, without another strike, will be the first major test of Mayor Rahm Emanuel's second term. Chicago Public Schools Chief Executive Officer Barbara Byrd-Bennett, appointed by Emanuel, took a leave of absence in April pending the outcome of a federal probe into a contract awarded to a company that had employed her.

Watch What the World Would Look Like Without Any Teachers Posted: 05 May 2015 01:10 PM PDT Or how about a world in which the U.S. government replaces all teachers with large devices called "Brain Boxes"? The competition garnered 62 video submissions that ranged from the absurd to the apocalyptic, from the humorous to the tragic. While you might expect students to rejoice at the possibility of an all-day recess period, submissions from some of the youngest contestants celebrated the important and ongoing legacy of their teachers. Other video submissions veered into the genres of science fiction and fantasy, deploying doomsday scenarios and injecting their stories with magical plot devices.In Derrick Ostalaza's short film, "World Gone Wrong," electronic teaching devices called L-Pads replace teachers.

Thousands of Seattle teachers to hold one-day walkout over pay, class sizes Posted: 05 May 2015 12:37 PM PDT By Victoria Cavaliere SEATTLE (Reuters) - Thousands of Seattle teachers have voted to walk out of class later this month, joining educators in nearly 30 districts across Washington state staging rolling one-day strikes for better pay and smaller class sizes, the union said on Tuesday. Washington teachers held a first round of walkouts last month, followed by a rally on the steps of the Capitol in Olympia, accusing the state legislature of inadequately funding public schools or teachers' salaries. On Monday, about 4,000 members of the Seattle Education Association, the state's largest teachers' union, voted to join the action with a walkout on May 19. "There's going to be disruption, no doubt about it," said Jonathan Knapp, president of the Seattle Education Association.

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