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• Striking teachers say pay gap makes Seattle tough to afford
• Parents scramble to find childcare during Seattle teachers' strike
• Seattle schools closed for second day by teachers strike over pay, hours
• Puerto Rico tutoring agency charged in federal fraud case
• Striking Seattle teachers point to high cost of living
• College Students Say They’re Good with Money. Do You Believe Them?
• Free-tuition program Kalamazoo Promise delivers for students
• Thousands of Bangladeshi students protest university tax
• HBCU Academic 'All-Stars' Separate Fact From Fiction About Campus Life
• High cost of living an issue for striking Seattle teachers
• Students ask Education Department to discharge college debt

Striking teachers say pay gap makes Seattle tough to afford Posted: 10 Sep 2015 04:45 PM PDT Teachers in Seattle say they have walked off the job largely because they can't afford to live in the same city as the children they teach. The educators, who have not received a cost-of-living pay raise ...

Parents scramble to find childcare during Seattle teachers' strike Posted: 10 Sep 2015 03:30 PM PDT A two-day-old teachers' strike in Seattle has parents scrambling to find babysitters or to ferry their children to and from extended daycare programs as the labor dispute unexpectedly lengthens summer vacation for 53,000 students. While many parents in the predominantly liberal city were sympathetic to the teachers' cause, the strike put many working parents in a bind, forcing them to improvise childcare on short notice. Seattle resident Lon Vaughn said he was paying $60 a day to keep his two sons at a Boys & Girls Club program.

Seattle schools closed for second day by teachers strike over pay, hours Posted: 10 Sep 2015 01:37 PM PDT     Seattle educators and support staff had walked off the job and set up picket lines Wednesday morning on what should have been the first day of the school year, following a breakdown in 11th-hour labor talks with the school district the night before. The strike by the 5,000-member Seattle Education Association marked the first contract-related disruption of classes in three decades for the largest school system in the Pacific Northwest.

Puerto Rico tutoring agency charged in federal fraud case Posted: 10 Sep 2015 12:05 PM PDT SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials with a U.S. company that provides tutoring services at public schools in Puerto Rico have been charged in a nearly $1 million fraud case involving federal funds, authorities said Thursday.

Striking Seattle teachers point to high cost of living Posted: 10 Sep 2015 11:19 AM PDT Teacher Janine Magidman has lived and worked in Seattle for years, but she worries her newer colleagues will be priced out because their salaries haven't kept up with expenses as the tech boom makes the ...

College Students Say They’re Good with Money. Do You Believe Them? Posted: 10 Sep 2015 08:33 AM PDT A new study confirms it: College students think they know everything, at least when it comes to personal finance. Nearly 60 percent of college students said that they had good or excellent financial literacy skills, according to a study released today by the American Institute of CPAs. Despite that confidence, less than half of students say they stick to a monthly budget, nearly 40 percent had borrowed money from friends or family and more than 10 percent had missed a bill payment.

Free-tuition program Kalamazoo Promise delivers for students Posted: 10 Sep 2015 08:30 AM PDT A decade after the Kalamazoo Promise was made, the free-tuition program's impact reverberates in its home city and beyond. The anonymously funded plan, announced in the fall of 2005, pays the college tuition ...

Thousands of Bangladeshi students protest university tax Posted: 10 Sep 2015 07:08 AM PDT Thousands of students staged street protests in the Bangladeshi capital for a second straight day Thursday against a tax on university fees which they say discriminates against private higher education. The students barricaded key roads across Dhaka as part of the rally, bringing traffic to a halt in the city of 15 million people, as police looked on. Tensions were high after police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at protesting students on Wednesday from the city's East West University after they blocked a key road.

HBCU Academic 'All-Stars' Separate Fact From Fiction About Campus Life Posted: 10 Sep 2015 06:15 AM PDT A new school year often means new responsibilities, which, for students, can range from new leadership positions in clubs to a slew of newer, harder classes. For a select group of students, though, part of their new responsibilities will include serving the White House. The U.S. Department of Education recently announced the 2015 HBCU All-Stars, a group of 83 undergraduate, master's and professional students at historically black colleges and universities recognized for their accomplishments.

High cost of living an issue for striking Seattle teachers Posted: 10 Sep 2015 01:05 AM PDT Teacher Janine Magidman has lived and worked in Seattle for years, but she worries her newer colleagues will be priced out because their salaries haven't kept up with expenses as the tech boom makes the ...

Students ask Education Department to discharge college debt Posted: 03 Sep 2015 01:54 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 3,000 former Corinthian College students will have their college loans erased, the first wave of debt relief tied to the collapse of the for-profit higher education chain. The potential cost to taxpayers if all Corinthian students seek relief: $3.2 billion.

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