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• Chicago school pension payment delay to get another House vote
• Packed Pennsylvania Capitol leaves little room for agreement
• Years into Common Core, teachers lament lack of materials
• New York schools to mark Lunar New Year
• 10 Colleges with the Most Students in Fraternities

Chicago school pension payment delay to get another House vote Posted: 23 Jun 2015 04:25 PM PDT The Illinois House will get a second chance to vote on a bill that would give the cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools (CPS) until Aug. 10 to make a $634 million payment to its pension fund, House Speaker Michael Madigan said. A 53-46 vote in the Democrat-controlled House on Tuesday fell short of the 71 affirmative votes needed to allow the measure to take immediate effect. Madigan told reporters in the state capitol in Springfield that the bill will be called for another House vote on June 30.

Packed Pennsylvania Capitol leaves little room for agreement Posted: 23 Jun 2015 01:58 PM PDT The tension of budget season spilled over Tuesday into heated exchanges at back-to-back rallies at the Pennsylvania Capitol on the virtues of the state's Marcellus Shale industry and public schools. The ...

Years into Common Core, teachers lament lack of materials Posted: 23 Jun 2015 10:24 AM PDT The learning standards were new. The textbooks were not.

New York schools to mark Lunar New Year Posted: 23 Jun 2015 08:38 AM PDT The Lunar New Year is now an official holiday in New York public schools, allowing tens of thousands of Asian families to celebrate without children missing class, the mayor said Tuesday. Progressive Democrat Bill de Blasio added the holiday, observed in China and other countries in Asia, three months after adding the two most sacred Muslim holidays to the school calendar. Schools will close on February 8 for the Lunar New Year in 2016.

10 Colleges with the Most Students in Fraternities Posted: 23 Jun 2015 06:00 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.

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