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• Former employees of Florida high school accused of sex with students
• What's Really Behind the Drive to Unionize Charter School Teachers?
• University of California to raise worker minimum wage to $15
• Top Advtech shareholders back Curro's $485 mln bid
• Under Kremlin pressure, 'undesirable' U.S. charity pulls out of Russia

Former employees of Florida high school accused of sex with students Posted: 22 Jul 2015 03:52 PM PDT Authorities in Jacksonville, Florida, said on Wednesday they are investigating allegations that three male employees of a local high school were having sex separately with three different female students. Jacksonville police are investigating a former dean of students, a former math teacher and a former part-time football coach at Westside High School over the allegations, according to reports by Duval County Public Schools.

What's Really Behind the Drive to Unionize Charter School Teachers? Posted: 22 Jul 2015 02:40 PM PDT Established as the next frontier in low-bureaucracy education reform, publicly funded charter schools had been off-limits for teachers' unions, whom some politicians and ed-reform activists see as part of the problem with traditional schools. Labor activists from New Jersey to California have begun organizing teachers' unions in charter schools and systems, pledging to help teachers do what's best for their students and themselves. "More and more teachers who work in charters want to find a vehicle to exercise their voice" to demand what they need to do their jobs well, said Jim Testerman, director of organizing for the National Education Association.

University of California to raise worker minimum wage to $15 Posted: 22 Jul 2015 02:04 PM PDT The University of California said on Wednesday it will raise the minimum wage for its workforce to $15 an hour by 2017, mirroring similar actions in several of the state's biggest cities and becoming the first public system of higher education to do so. UC President Janet Napolitano announced the move, which would apply to all employees on the payroll of the 10-campus system who work at least 20 hours a week, amid a national campaign to elevate the base income for low-wage workers. "How we support our workers and their families impacts Californians who might never set foot on one of our campuses," Napolitano said in a statement.

Top Advtech shareholders back Curro's $485 mln bid Posted: 22 Jul 2015 08:18 AM PDT JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Two top shareholders in South Africa's Advtech said on Wednesday they will accept Curro Holdings' $485 million takeover offer, which could be resubmitted after the target's board rejected it this week. Coronation Asset Management and the Kagiso Asset Management hold a combined more than 35 percent of Advtech, South Africa's second-biggest private schools operator.

Under Kremlin pressure, 'undesirable' U.S. charity pulls out of Russia Posted: 22 Jul 2015 07:37 AM PDT By Tom Esslemont LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A U.S.-based non-governmental organization has become the latest casualty in what campaigners say is a global tightening of restrictions on charitable activity by authoritarian governments, by deciding to close its operations in Russia. The MacArthur Foundation, which has operated in Moscow for more than 20 years - financing higher education, human rights and anti-nuclear proliferation campaigns - said new laws had made it "impossible to continue," by placing the charity on a list of "undesirable" organizations - a criticism it said was baseless. More than 60 countries in the last three years have sought to curb the ability of non-profit groups to receive or use overseas funds, using a variety of justifications, the Thomson Reuters Foundation revealed in an article earlier this month.

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