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• Chicago schools lays off 1,000, about half are teachers
• Millions of College Students Are Making This Big Financial Mistake
• Rich, Stingy Colleges
• Kazakhstan to expel teachers linked with Gulen movement: Nazarbayev
• San Francisco colleges calling attention to campus sex assaults
• Special needs student speaks out about being physically restrained at school

Chicago schools lays off 1,000, about half are teachers Posted: 05 Aug 2016 02:04 PM PDT CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Public Schools will lay off about 1,000 employees, nearly half of whom are teachers.

Millions of College Students Are Making This Big Financial Mistake Posted: 05 Aug 2016 10:21 AM PDT Despite the student loan crisis, about 20 percent of college students may be missing out on a key source of college funds. New data from the U.S. Department of Education finds that one in five undergraduate students did not apply for any student aid, and 10 percent applied only for private aid. Among those who didn't apply for aid, 44 percent thought that they were ineligible, making that the most common reason for skipping the application, followed by 43 percent who thought they could afford college without financial aid.

Rich, Stingy Colleges Posted: 05 Aug 2016 09:20 AM PDT Call them the top 4 percent: elite private colleges and universities that together sit atop three-quarters of the higher education terrain's endowment wealth. Among that group of 138 of the nation's wealthiest colleges and universities, four in five charge poor students so much that they'd need to surrender 60 percent or more of their household incomes just to attend, even after financial aid is considered. Nearly half have enrollment rates of low-income students that place them in the bottom 5 percent nationally for such enrollment.

Kazakhstan to expel teachers linked with Gulen movement: Nazarbayev Posted: 05 Aug 2016 08:45 AM PDT Kazakhstan will expel any Turkish teacher linked to an Islamic cleric Ankara accuses of engineering an abortive coup, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said after meeting his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey blames followers of the U.S.-based preacher Fethullah Gulen for trying to overthrow Erdogan on July 15. Gulen's followers, who practice a moderate form of Islam, have opened an estimated 1,000 schools in dozens of countries, with a special focus on science-based secular education.

San Francisco colleges calling attention to campus sex assaults Posted: 04 Aug 2016 06:33 PM PDT There's an alarming statistic out Thursday, that only five percent of women who are sexually assaulted on campuses, end up reporting it to law enforcement.

Special needs student speaks out about being physically restrained at school Posted: 03 Aug 2016 06:18 PM PDT The Department of Education has ruled OUSD was guilty of discrimination after a special needs student was physically restrained almost 100 times - in just one school year.

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