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• Striking Seattle teachers poised to return to classroom
• The Latest: Seattle teachers deal is for 3-year contract
• Will Sanders’ Proposals Make Him the $18 Trillion Candidate?
• Heavy rains hit Dominica, unleash new landslides, flooding
• Seattle school strike talks reach 'tentative agreement'
• Striking Seattle teachers, district reach tentative deal
• Two students dead after school bus crashes in Houston
• Kenyan court hears challenge to teachers' strike
• How applying for financial aid just got easier for college students
• 10 Ways U.S. Colleges Work to Support International Students
• NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Mission Kickstarts Outreach Budget With Card Game

Striking Seattle teachers poised to return to classroom Posted: 15 Sep 2015 03:37 PM PDT SEATTLE (AP) — School could resume this week for Seattle's 53,000 students after teachers who have been on strike for five days reached a tentative contract agreement Tuesday with Washington state's largest school district.

The Latest: Seattle teachers deal is for 3-year contract Posted: 15 Sep 2015 12:48 PM PDT SEATTLE (AP) — The latest on the strike by public-school teachers in Seattle (all times local):

Will Sanders’ Proposals Make Him the $18 Trillion Candidate? Posted: 15 Sep 2015 11:56 AM PDT Sen. Bernie Sanders has electrified crowds of supporters with his attacks on the elite "billionaire class" and his litany of promises ranging from free college tuition to replacing Obamacare with a price single-payer "Medicare for all" program. As Sanders has surged ahead of former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the polls in the early battleground states of Iowa and New Hampshire and is closing in on her in the national polls, the news media is beginning to pay closer attention to the specifics of his proposals that are tantamount to some of the biggest domestic spending and tax increases of modern times. Related: Sanders' Big Spending Plans Would Reinvent the U.S.

Heavy rains hit Dominica, unleash new landslides, flooding Posted: 15 Sep 2015 11:00 AM PDT ROSEAU, Dominica (AP) — The government of Dominica has closed public schools and offices amid heavy rains that are hitting the eastern Caribbean island once again as it struggles to recover from an earlier tropical storm.

Seattle school strike talks reach 'tentative agreement' Posted: 15 Sep 2015 10:44 AM PDT Striking teachers and the Seattle public school district reached a tentative agreement on Tuesday to end a nearly week-long walkout that has idled the city's 53,000 students, both sides in the labor dispute said. Stacy Howard, a spokeswoman for Seattle Public Schools, said the accord was struck just before 7 a.m. Tuesday after a 20-hour negotiating session. Union spokesman Rich Wood said they were "excited and pleased" with the tentative agreement struck with the help of state mediators.

Striking Seattle teachers, district reach tentative deal Posted: 15 Sep 2015 09:33 AM PDT Seattle teachers reached a tentative agreement with the city's school district as their strike entered its fifth day Tuesday, but they will stay on the picket lines pending its approval. The sides reached ...

Two students dead after school bus crashes in Houston Posted: 15 Sep 2015 08:19 AM PDT Two high school students were killed and two other students and their driver seriously injured after a school bus crashed in Houston, Texas.

Kenyan court hears challenge to teachers' strike Posted: 15 Sep 2015 07:35 AM PDT Kenya began legal action on Tuesday to try to halt a teachers' strike over pay that is running into its third week, local media reported. Members of the Kenya National Union of Teachers and the Kenya Union of Post Primary Education Teachers, which have more than 280,000 members, are staging strikes after the government refused to raise their pay by up to 60 percent.

How applying for financial aid just got easier for college students Posted: 15 Sep 2015 05:48 AM PDT In an effort to make college more accessible to low-income families, the Obama administration is launching a new initiative to streamline the process of applying for federal student aid. Starting next fall, aspiring college students will be able to access the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form in October rather than January. Under the current system, students find themselves with college acceptance letters that they don't yet know if they can pay for.

10 Ways U.S. Colleges Work to Support International Students Posted: 15 Sep 2015 05:00 AM PDT While international students may be worrying about their new life in the States, most colleges have already got that covered, from academic to physical needs. Here are some of the types of aid and support that most U.S. colleges provide to international students, so ask the schools you're considering which they offer. International student advisers: Reporting to the international student service office is the first thing you should do when you arrive on campus.

NASA's Osiris-Rex Asteroid Mission Kickstarts Outreach Budget With Card Game Posted: 15 Sep 2015 04:57 AM PDT The head of NASA's Osiris-Rex asteroid sample-return probe plans to crowdfund a public outreach budget for the mission on Kickstarter by selling a card game in which players compete to build their own space missions. The game, Xtronaut, was designed by Dante Lauretta, a University of Arizona Tucson professor and principal investigator for Osiris-Rex: A roughly $1 billion NASA New Frontiers mission set to launch in September 2016 and return an asteroid sample to Earth in 2023. NASA missions historically reserved a slice of their budgets for education and public outreach, or EPO: Essentially, promoting the mission to the public through experts directly involved with the program. However, Osiris-Rex's EPO budget got deleted in 2013 as part of a broader federal policy change initiated that year to consolidate U.S. education spending within the Department of Education.

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