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• Ex-NYC schools chancellor named monitor of suburban district
• Prosecutor: Scam charity duped students, pocketed their pay
• Bid to keep pork substitutes on French school menus rebuffed
• Hillary Clinton’s Smorgasbord Approach to Student Loans

Ex-NYC schools chancellor named monitor of suburban district Posted: 13 Aug 2015 04:16 PM PDT SUFFERN, N.Y. (AP) — Former New York City Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott was appointed Thursday to monitor a suburban school district in which public school families, mostly black or Hispanic, claim they're being shortchanged by the school board, which is dominated by Orthodox Jews who don't use the public schools.

Prosecutor: Scam charity duped students, pocketed their pay Posted: 13 Aug 2015 02:19 PM PDT Prosecutors say more than 100 New York high school students and dozens more in Chicago, Houston and Nashville, Tennessee, have been cheated out of promised paychecks by a "scam" charity. The ...

Bid to keep pork substitutes on French school menus rebuffed Posted: 13 Aug 2015 05:27 AM PDT PARIS (AP) — A leader of France's top Muslim organization is criticizing a court decision that could jeopardize a decades-old policy in which public schools offer substitutes to pork when the meat turns up on lunch menus.

Hillary Clinton’s Smorgasbord Approach to Student Loans Posted: 13 Aug 2015 03:09 AM PDT Hillary Clinton excels at devising policies tailored to appeal to wide swaths of the electorate, and her latest major proposal—reforming higher-education financing—is no exception. The plan is largely stitched together from other recent efforts to address the daunting $1.2 trillion owed by Americans with student loans, incorporating popular ideas from both sides of the aisle.

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