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• Seattle teachers, school officials to resume talks Saturday
• Seattle schools closed for third day by teachers' strike
• For the Sake of Its Male Teachers, School Bans Tight Pants
• 10 colleges where students owe the most
• 10 Top-Ranked Colleges That Are Flexible With Test Scores
• The Ins, Outs of Applying to Test-Optional Colleges
• Seattle schools shut for second day in teachers strike over pay, hours
• Leopoldo Lopez, a stone in the shoe of chavismo

Seattle teachers, school officials to resume talks Saturday Posted: 11 Sep 2015 04:59 PM PDT SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle teachers and officials from Seattle Public Schools say they will resume contract negotiations Saturday after three days of a teacher strike that has delayed the start of the school year for about 53,000 students.

Seattle schools closed for third day by teachers' strike Posted: 11 Sep 2015 03:39 PM PDT Seattle public schools were closed for a third day on Friday due to a teachers' strike that has idled 53,000 students and caused childcare headaches for working parents, with no word on whether stalled contract talks might resume over the weekend. Representatives for the Seattle Education Association and the school district met separately with state mediators on Thursday and again on Friday but union and district officials said there were no plans as yet for the two sides to reopen negotiations formally.

For the Sake of Its Male Teachers, School Bans Tight Pants Posted: 11 Sep 2015 03:35 PM PDT Often when teen girls get sent home from school for wearing tank tops or shorts, it's because school officials fear the sight of bare flesh will distract their hormonal male peers. Dr. Rowena Blencowe told 10 girls that the tightness of their pants would distract their male teachers on their first day of class this week at Trentham High School in Staffordshire, England, Yahoo U.K. reports. This isn't the first time the secondary school has cracked down on students' outfits for fear of impairing professional academics' state of mind.

10 colleges where students owe the most Posted: 11 Sep 2015 12:39 PM PDT Students at one U.S. college owe more than $35 billion, and at 14 other colleges they owe over $5 billion in outstanding student debt.

10 Top-Ranked Colleges That Are Flexible With Test Scores Posted: 11 Sep 2015 05:30 AM PDT Schools With Flexible Test Policies

The Ins, Outs of Applying to Test-Optional Colleges Posted: 11 Sep 2015 05:30 AM PDT Welcome to the world of test-optional admissions, where applicants -- not colleges -- decide whether to supply schools with their SAT or ACT scores. "Hundreds of top-notch colleges are willing to view applicants as more than a test score," says Bob Schaeffer, public education director at the National Center for Fair and Open Testing, better known as FairTest. Research has confirmed what many schools have long suspected: Test scores do not always predict which students will excel after reaching campus.

Seattle schools shut for second day in teachers strike over pay, hours Posted: 10 Sep 2015 07:45 PM PDT Union and school district leaders met separately with mediators, though direct negotiations have not officially resumed, and all of Seattle's nearly 100 schools were due to remain closed on Friday, district spokeswoman Stacy Howard said. No further bargaining sessions were planned for the time being, union spokesman Rich Wood said Thursday evening. 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.

Leopoldo Lopez, a stone in the shoe of chavismo Posted: 10 Sep 2015 05:39 PM PDT Leopoldo Lopez, who was sentenced to nearly 14 years in prison on charges of inciting violence during anti-government protests, heads the radical wing of the Venezuelan opposition. The 44-year-old economist with a master's degree from Harvard University was convicted Thursday for inciting violence in protests against the government of Nicolas Maduro that left 43 dead and about 3,000 wounded between February and May 2014. Lopez, who forged his career as an opponent of late president Hugo Chavez (1999-2013), conducted a monthlong hunger strike that ended June 23, when the authorities announced that legislative elections would take place on December 6.

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