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• Iconic Sports Brand Wants High Schools to Stop Using 'Redskins' Mascots
• California high school students walk out over racist post probed as hate crime
• Berkeley High students walk out over racist post
• Why N.C. high school has a food pantry for students by students
• Chicago teachers take practice vote for possible strike
• South Africa campuses face funding shortage after tuition fee freeze
• Colorado county votes fund college scholarships with marijuana tax
• CTU tells teachers to prepare for possible strike in response to layoff threats

Iconic Sports Brand Wants High Schools to Stop Using 'Redskins' Mascots Posted: 05 Nov 2015 03:25 PM PST German sports brand Adidas announced an initiative on Thursday aimed at helping nationwide high schools remove Native American mascots and symbolism from their sports teams. A few days before, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper created a commission that will study how Native Americans are represented in the state's public schools and get Native American communities involved in the discussion.

California high school students walk out over racist post probed as hate crime Posted: 05 Nov 2015 01:29 PM PST Hundreds of high-school students, some chanting "Black Lives Matter," walked out of school in Berkeley, California, on Thursday and marched to a nearby campus to protest a threatening and racist message left on a school computer, police said. As many as 1,000 Berkeley High School students left class around 10 a.m. (1800 GMT), after school district officials had notified parents the night before about the hateful message, said Berkeley Police Department spokesman Byron White. The message, shared on Twitter by the school's black student union and then published by local news outlets, included racial slurs, a claim of past racial violence, a reference to the Ku Klux Klan, and threatened a "public lynching" in December.

Berkeley High students walk out over racist post Posted: 05 Nov 2015 01:09 PM PST BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — At least 2,000 of Berkeley High School students walked out of class Thursday in protest of a racist message left on a computer screen a day earlier, district officials said.

Why N.C. high school has a food pantry for students by students Posted: 05 Nov 2015 09:17 AM PST US public schools are not just a place for students to acquire knowledge. More than half of US public school students live in low-income households, according to a study by the Southern Education Foundation released early this year.

Chicago teachers take practice vote for possible strike Posted: 05 Nov 2015 08:45 AM PST The purpose of the vote in the nation's third-largest city is to test both the process of collecting the vote and teacher sentiment as negotiations with school officials continue, said Jesse Sharkey, vice president of the Chicago Teachers Union. Its former chief executive, Barbara Byrd-Bennett, pleaded guilty last month to a fraud charge related to the awarding of a no-bid contract to her former employer, infuriating parents and teachers who had already seen budget cutbacks.

South Africa campuses face funding shortage after tuition fee freeze Posted: 05 Nov 2015 07:48 AM PST By Nqobile Dludla JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's government is grappling with a 2.3 billion rand ($165 million) shortfall at university campuses after President Jacob Zuma gave in to protesting students' demands and ruled out tuition fee increases next year, officials said on Thursday. Some university students have demanded free higher education, saying Zuma's action to freeze fee increases for next year did not go far enough, and their leaders have warned that protests could flare up again in the future. The state plans to contribute the lion's share of 1.935 billion rand next year to plug the shortfall, while universities will contribute 394,727 million rand, the director-general of the department of higher education, Gwebinkundla Qonde, said.

Colorado county votes fund college scholarships with marijuana tax Posted: 04 Nov 2015 07:05 PM PST Students attending college in a southern Colorado county will soon have a chance to tap into the state's lucrative legal marijuana industry after voters approved a tax on local cannabis growing operations to fund scholarships for higher education. Voters in Pueblo County approved by a 60 percent to 40 percent margin a measure that imposes a 5 percent excise tax on cultivators who supply Colorado's medical and recreational marijuana industries, the county clerk's office said on Wednesday. Beginning in 2017, any high school graduate in the county will be eligible to apply for the scholarship, the Board of Pueblo County Commissioners said in a statement.

CTU tells teachers to prepare for possible strike in response to layoff threats Posted: 02 Nov 2015 05:05 PM PST Just four hours after CPS CEO Forrest Claypool said on Monday that there may be thousands of teacher layoffs in the second semester of the school year, the Chicago Teacher's Union told teachers to prepare for a possible labor strike.

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