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• Judge rules for Montana teachers' union in pension dispute
• Civics test, rules for e-cigarette sales among new Utah laws
• Jim Carrey Unleashes Twitter Rant Over California's New Vaccine Law 
• Jim Carrey's Twitter Rant 
• California mandates vaccinations in schools
• Ways to Qualify for a Total and Permanent Disability Student Loan Discharge
• Same-sex marriage: Will conservative religious colleges lose tax-exempt status?
• Chicago Public Schools make full pension payment by deadline
• Lead lawmaker's bill would address Chicago school pension shortfall

Judge rules for Montana teachers' union in pension dispute Posted: 01 Jul 2015 04:30 PM PDT A Helena judge has blocked a legislative measure that cut retired teachers' annual inflationary pension increases, saying it violates the contracts clauses in the Montana and U.S. constitutions. District ...

Civics test, rules for e-cigarette sales among new Utah laws Posted: 01 Jul 2015 04:03 PM PDT More than 50 new laws took effect Wednesday in Utah, including measures requiring high school students to pass a U.S. citizenship test, restrictions on electronic-cigarette sellers and expanded death benefits ...

Jim Carrey Unleashes Twitter Rant Over California's New Vaccine Law  Posted: 01 Jul 2015 03:45 PM PDT Jim Carrey is trying to set the record straight after his lengthy Twitter rant over California's new mandatory immunization law. The actor called Gov. Jerry Brown a "corporate fascist" on Tuesday, after the state passed a bill that requires all public schools and daycares to vaccinate their children unless a legitimate medical reason permits otherwise. "California Gov says yes to poisoning more children with mercury and aluminum in manditory vaccines," Carrey Tweeted.

Jim Carrey's Twitter Rant  Posted: 01 Jul 2015 03:45 PM PDT Jim Carrey is trying to set the record straight after his lengthy Twitter rant over California's new mandatory immunization law. The actor called Gov. Jerry Brown a "corporate fascist" on Tuesday, after the state passed a bill that requires all public schools and daycares to vaccinate their children unless a legitimate medical reason permits otherwise. "California Gov says yes to poisoning more children with mercury and aluminum in manditory [sic] vaccines," Carrey Tweeted.

California mandates vaccinations in schools Posted: 01 Jul 2015 09:26 AM PDT Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed a controversial bill Tuesday that will impose one of the strictest school vaccination laws in the country: starting next year, vaccinations are required for nearly all children in public and private schools. The signing statement was issued just one day after lawmakers sent Governor Brown the bill that will strike California's personal belief exemption for immunizations. Recommended: How much do you know about California?

Ways to Qualify for a Total and Permanent Disability Student Loan Discharge Posted: 01 Jul 2015 07:00 AM PDT Last week, the Student Loan Ranger covered three student loan discharge options you'll hopefully never have to use. In 1999, the Department of Education's Office of the Inspector General issued a report showing that 23 percent of the borrowers who received a disability discharge between 1994 and 1996 went on to be employed and earn income shortly after the discharge was completed. Since then, the Department of Education has had to try and protect federal taxpayers by putting checks and balances in place to deter and identify disability discharge fraud while also trying to ensure the process is as painless as possible for those who are truly disabled as defined in the federal statute.

Same-sex marriage: Will conservative religious colleges lose tax-exempt status? Posted: 01 Jul 2015 06:55 AM PDT In his dissent to last week's epoch-changing decision that declared same-sex marriage a fundamental right, Chief Justice John Roberts worried about the implications of the majority's rationale for religious colleges and other institutions. "Hard questions arise when people of faith exercise religion in ways that may be seen to conflict with the new right to same-sex marriage – when, for example, a religious college provides married student housing only to opposite-sex married couples, or a religious adoption agency declines to place children with same-sex married couples," the chief justice wrote. One of these questions, many legal scholars and others say, may revolve around the tax-exempt status of conservative religious institutions whose policies conflict with the nation's new public policy on marriage.

Chicago Public Schools make full pension payment by deadline Posted: 30 Jun 2015 08:17 PM PDT The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) made its full teachers' pension payment on Tuesday ahead of a midnight deadline, saying the move will require $200 million in spending cuts, according to a school official. Illinois law mandated a $634 million payment to the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund, but it was uncertain whether the cash-strapped public school system, the nation's third-largest, would find the necessary money. "As we have said, CPS could not make the payment and keep cuts away from the classroom, so while school will start on time, our classrooms will be impacted," CPS Interim CEO Jesse Ruiz said in a statement.

Lead lawmaker's bill would address Chicago school pension shortfall Posted: 30 Jun 2015 07:19 PM PDT Illinois Senate President John Cullerton on Tuesday proposed legislation aimed at providing pension funding relief for the Chicago Public Schools, while meeting Governor Bruce Rauner's call for a local property tax freeze. The bill, set to be heard by the Senate Executive Committee on Wednesday, would require the state to pay a much bigger share of Chicago teachers' pensions and reduce the nation's third-largest public school district's contributions going forward. Payments due in fiscal 2018 through 2063 would be in amounts that would bring the funded ratio for the Chicago Teachers' Pension Fund to 90 percent by 2063.

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