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• Chicago schools announce cuts after union rejects offer
• The Latest: Teachers' union wants local control for district
• Chicago schools to cut spending after teachers reject offer
• State manager for Detroit schools leaving job months early
• Detroit school system's manager to step down this month
• Bizarre Cosby twist: former prosecutor to testify on his behalf
• Ed Department gives states ways to cut standardized testing
• Syrian refugee teachers help fill the education gap

Chicago schools announce cuts after union rejects offer Posted: 02 Feb 2016 03:29 PM PST CHICAGO (AP) — Officials with Chicago Public Schools said Tuesday they're ready to cut $100 million from school budgets and force teachers to pay more pension costs after the union rejected the latest contract offer, ratcheting up the tone of contentious negotiations that have lasted over a year.

The Latest: Teachers' union wants local control for district Posted: 02 Feb 2016 02:48 PM PST DETROIT (AP) — The Latest on the state-appointed emergency manager for the Detroit Public Schools stepping down (all times local):

Chicago schools to cut spending after teachers reject offer Posted: 02 Feb 2016 02:39 PM PST The Chicago Public Schools (CPS) will cut about $165 million from its current budget through layoffs and lower pension contributions after its contract offer to teachers was rejected on Monday, school Chief Executive Forrest Claypool said on Tuesday. "We do not want to do this," Claypool told reporters, referring to the planned cuts. Bond investors became skittish last week over proposed legislation backed by Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner and fellow Republicans to take over the troubled school system and potentially allow it to file for municipal bankruptcy.

State manager for Detroit schools leaving job months early Posted: 02 Feb 2016 12:26 PM PST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Criticized on two fronts for his role in Flint's lead-tainted water crisis and his handling of teacher sick-outs and building conditions in Detroit's troubled public schools, Darnell Earley has decided to step down from his job as the state-appointed emergency manager for Michigan's largest school district before the end of his 18-month term.

Detroit school system's manager to step down this month Posted: 02 Feb 2016 09:50 AM PST Detroit Public Schools' emergency manager Darnell Earley is stepping down later this month, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder said on Tuesday. Earley, who has drawn criticism from the teachers union and black state lawmakers for the crumbling state of the city's schools, will leave the school district on Feb. 29, the governor said in a statement. Earley, who had formerly presided over the city of Flint and its now lead-contaminated water system, has served as manager of the Detroit schools since January 2015.

Bizarre Cosby twist: former prosecutor to testify on his behalf Posted: 02 Feb 2016 06:36 AM PST A former district attorney who says he struck a "non-prosecution" deal with Bill Cosby in return for the actor's testimony in a civil lawsuit will be Mr. Cosby's star witness on Tuesday, as his lawyers attempt to throw out the only criminal case brought against him, despite years of allegations that he drugged and sexually assaulted dozens of women. Bruce Castor Jr. promised Cosby he would not be prosecuted if he testified freely in a 2005 civil lawsuit brought by Andrea Constand, the former Temple University women's basketball team manager who claims that Cosby gave her pills and sexually assaulted her in 2004.

Ed Department gives states ways to cut standardized testing Posted: 02 Feb 2016 05:59 AM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is offering states and local school districts a lesson plan of sorts for reducing standardized testing in public schools.

Syrian refugee teachers help fill the education gap Posted: 02 Feb 2016 12:03 AM PST QAB ELIAS, Lebanon (AP) — In the refugee camp in eastern Lebanon where Fatima Khaled lives with her two daughters, only three children found a spot in the local school.

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