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• What Does a President Trump Mean for Public Education?
• S&P pushes credit rating for Chicago schools deeper into junk
• Cigars, Cigarettes and Cigarillos: How Each Affects Health
• Kenya teachers seek to follow Uganda and ban UK-backed private schools
• Greek Life at Colleges Comes With a Cost
• College Students and Binge Drinking: When a Rite of Passage Becomes a Path to Destruction

What Does a President Trump Mean for Public Education? Posted: 09 Nov 2016 03:54 PM PST From the repeal of a ban on bilingual education in California to a smackdown of charter school expansion in Massachusetts, a wide range of education issues were subject to voter scrutiny across the United States on Election Day. During his victory speech in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Trump vowed "to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals." The specifics of how the nation's public schools will be improved went unmentioned.

S&P pushes credit rating for Chicago schools deeper into junk Posted: 09 Nov 2016 12:37 PM PST S&P Global Ratings on Wednesday dropped its credit rating for the cash-strapped Chicago Public Schools (CPS) deeper into junk ahead of the district's planned $426.3 million bond sale. The rating fell one notch to B with a negative outlook, putting it just two notches above the substantially risky triple-C level. "The rating action reflects our view of the district's continued weak liquidity in its most recent cash flow forecast and reliance on cash flow borrowing, combined with the increased expenditures in the district's new labor contract that exacerbate the district's structural imbalance challenges," S&P analyst Jennifer Boyd said in a statement.

Cigars, Cigarettes and Cigarillos: How Each Affects Health Posted: 09 Nov 2016 06:39 AM PST Despite all the known health hazards of smoking -- cancer and respiratory and heart disease high among them -- cigars are making a quiet comeback. In recent years, the U.S. has seen a startling shift in tobacco product consumption. For African-American high school students, cigars were the most common tobacco product used.

Kenya teachers seek to follow Uganda and ban UK-backed private schools Posted: 09 Nov 2016 06:31 AM PST By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Kenyan teachers want the government to ban a chain of low-cost private primary and nursery schools, backed by Microsoft's Bill Gates and Britain's aid budget, after it faced criticism from a court in neighboring Uganda for hiring unlicensed teachers. Uganda's high court on Friday ordered Bridge International Academies (BIA) to close 63 schools in the country for operating without a license, having poor sanitation and for using unregistered and unlicensed teachers, the judgment said. The company, founded by an American couple, started working in Uganda in 2015 after opening 405 schools in Kenya since 2009 that use an 'Academy in a box' model in which teachers read lessons from a tablet computer.

Greek Life at Colleges Comes With a Cost Posted: 09 Nov 2016 06:00 AM PST "The sororities at USC average around $1,800 per semester in dues," says Michelle Yramategui, 22, a recent grad from the University of Southern California and Alpha Phi member, who used her internship money to pay for chapter fees. The California native says she didn't know the exact cost of her sorority until part way through "rush" -- the sorority recruitment process. This is a fairly common practice among Greek organizations since their philosophy is making a decision based on social fit, not cost, says Mark Koepsell, executive director and CEO of the Association of Fraternity and Sorority Advisors, an association that represents university professionals that oversee Greek life on more than 700 campuses across the U.S.

College Students and Binge Drinking: When a Rite of Passage Becomes a Path to Destruction Posted: 09 Nov 2016 03:00 AM PST What do weekend parties, Greek life and football games have in common? For college students, the answer is obvious: alcohol. College life and binge drinking go hand in hand, but all too often the pairing ends tragically.

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