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• Feds offer debt relief to more former Corinthian students
• Why Chicago schools say a possible teachers strike is illegal
• Pupils as young as seven caught sexting by UK teachers

Feds offer debt relief to more former Corinthian students Posted: 25 Mar 2016 02:59 PM PDT BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Department of Education is offering debt forgiveness to another wave of students who attended Corinthian Colleges, the now-defunct chain of for-profit schools that had campuses across the country.

Why Chicago schools say a possible teachers strike is illegal Posted: 25 Mar 2016 01:17 PM PDT The union representing Chicago public school teachers is planning to go on strike April 1, but the school department CEO insists school must go on and has called the strike illegal. The strike aims to bring awareness to the district's budget problems, but the standoff may instead highlight the legal issues around strikes in the public sector. Chicago teachers have worked without a contract since June 30, Tina Sfondeles and Lauren FitzPatrick reported for the Chicago Sun-Times.

Pupils as young as seven caught sexting by UK teachers Posted: 24 Mar 2016 05:17 PM PDT More than 60 percent of school staff in Britain are aware of 13-16 year olds sharing sexual material online, and pupils as young as seven have been caught "sexting", a study said Friday. The report from teaching union NASUWT union found that 63 percent of teachers were aware of 14-year-olds sexting, while 45 percent said they knew of 13-year-olds sharing material of a sexual nature. A small amount of teachers said seven-, eight-, and nine-year-olds were engaged in such behaviour, and a quarter of respondents said they were aware of 11-year-olds sexting.

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