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• Teachers' strike to keep Seattle schools closed Tuesday
• Oregon man accused of threatening to kill school teachers
• School canceled for 4th day as Seattle teachers strike
• Colleges That Report Meeting Full Financial Need
• 3 Tips for High School Teachers to Use Social Media Responsibly In Class
• Seattle schools to be closed again on Monday in teachers strike

Teachers' strike to keep Seattle schools closed Tuesday Posted: 14 Sep 2015 04:30 PM PDT Seattle's 53,000 public school students will be idled for a fifth day on Tuesday by a citywide teachers' strike after a marathon round of weekend contract talks between the union and school district failed to produce a settlement. Negotiations were set to resume on Monday afternoon, before striking teachers who had been walking picket lines at city high schools marched to district headquarters for a rally that coincided with the announcement of no classes on Tuesday. "I understand a lot of people are getting frustrated, and this seems to keep going," Stacy Howard, spokeswoman for Seattle Public Schools, told a news conference.

Oregon man accused of threatening to kill school teachers Posted: 14 Sep 2015 04:11 PM PDT Police arrested an Oregon man and charged him with federal weapons offenses after FBI agents linked him to murderous online threats against teachers at a Christian school he once attended, court documents showed on Monday. Zachariah Peterson, 29, allegedly wrote that he was mistreated while studying at the unnamed Christian school and planned to return to "catch each one of the abusive teachers and mow them down with a shotgun," said an FBI affidavit filed in U.S. District Court on Friday, the day of his arrest. The posts were made under the username "Vote McCain" on a web forum called "General [M]ayhem." Peterson is accused in the affidavit of writing on the forum that he also planned to kill teachers and administrators at an adjoining elementary school, before proceeding to "have my way" with students.

School canceled for 4th day as Seattle teachers strike Posted: 14 Sep 2015 05:46 AM PDT There's no school in Seattle for a fourth day Monday as a strike by teachers enters its second week. The strike, over issues that include pay raises and the length of the school day, has delayed the start ...

Colleges That Report Meeting Full Financial Need Posted: 14 Sep 2015 05:30 AM PDT Lots of families can't afford to pay the full sticker price that a college charges.

3 Tips for High School Teachers to Use Social Media Responsibly In Class Posted: 14 Sep 2015 05:00 AM PDT Social media is popular among teens, but not among their teachers. Eighty-seven percent of K-12 teachers have not integrated social media into classroom learning, according to a new survey from the University of Phoenix College of Education. North Carolina educator Ike Smith says high school teachers may be grappling with how to take social media, which is relatively new, and integrate it into their existing practice.

Seattle schools to be closed again on Monday in teachers strike Posted: 13 Sep 2015 05:30 PM PDT Seattle's 53,000 public school students were put on notice that classes would be canceled for a fourth day on Monday due to the city's teachers strike as renewed contract talks between the union and school district stretched through the weekend.     One of the teachers' chief grievances is that they have received no cost-of-living raise in six years despite surging living expenses in Seattle, particularly for housing, fueled largely by growth in the city's technology sector.

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