2016年10月10日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Education News

Man in wrong-way fatal crash faces domestic assault trial

Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:20 PM PDT

In this still image from video provided by WCAX-TV, workers remove vehicles from Interstate 89 early Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016, in Williston, Vt., after a wrong-way driver caused a crash just before midnight that killed multiple people, before stealing a police cruiser, striking several vehicles and injuring several people. (WCAX-TV via AP)DUXBURY, Vt. (AP) — A man accused of driving the wrong way on an interstate, crashing into a car and killing five high school students, is facing trial on an unrelated domestic assault charge, prosecutors said Monday.

The Latest: 1,000 gather to honor students who died in crash

Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:01 PM PDT

In this still image from video provided by WCAX-TV, workers remove vehicles from Interstate 89 early Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016, in Williston, Vt., after a wrong-way driver caused a crash just before midnight that killed multiple people, before stealing a police cruiser, striking several vehicles and injuring several people. (WCAX-TV via AP)DUXBURY, Vt. (AP) — The Latest on the wrong-way crash that killed five high school students in Vermont (all times local):

The Latest: Chicago teacher says strike 'our only tool'

Posted: 10 Oct 2016 04:04 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2012 file photo, Chicago public school teachers take a group picture as they walk a picket line outside a school in Chicago. Contract negotiations between teachers and officials in the nation's third-largest school district will happen throughout the weekend in hopes of reaching a deal to avert a strike. The Chicago Teachers Union has said its members are prepared to stop instruction for about 400,000 students as early as Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2016 for its second major strike since 2012, when teachers were out for seven school days. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on developments as the Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools continue to meet in hopes of averting a strike (all times local):

Chicago teachers prepare for strike; contract talks continue

Posted: 10 Oct 2016 03:58 PM PDT

Retired Chicago school teacher Patricia Lofton counts through a stack of picket sign for Chicago Teachers Union members to pick up Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, in Chicago. Negotiators for the union and Chicago Public Schools continue to meet in an effort to reach a contract and avert a threatened teachers' strike. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)CHICAGO (AP) — Teachers in the nation's third-largest school district were preparing to go on strike for the second time since 2012, as contract talks between the Chicago Teachers Union and financially troubled Chicago Public Schools headed into Monday evening with no sign of an agreement.

Negotiations continue as Chicago teachers' strike looms

Posted: 10 Oct 2016 03:15 PM PDT

Chicago Teachers Union members pick up strike material outside union's strike headquarters Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, in Chicago. Negotiators for the union and Chicago Public Schools continue to meet in an effort to reach a contract and avert a threatened teachers' strike. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago teachers and officials in the nation's third-largest school district held more contract negotiations Monday in hopes of averting a strike that would affect 400,000 students.

In Chicago, who should bear the burden of dwindling education money?

Posted: 10 Oct 2016 01:43 PM PDT

Teachers in the Chicago Public Schools are threatening to picket starting Tuesday morning if union negotiators and the city can't agree on a new contract by the end of Monday. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) has demanded the city continue to pay its pensions, as well as allocate $200 million more for school resources. The looming walkout exposes a conflict that has been festering in cash-strapped Chicago: Who should pay for the city's education system?

Chain of Indian colleges seeks to gain foothold in the US

Posted: 10 Oct 2016 01:39 PM PDT

In this Monday, Oct. 3, 2016 photo shrubs rest near The New England Institute of Art, in Brookline. A chain of universities in India has proposed to buy two for-profit art schools in the U.S., one near Boston and one in New York City, and also bought a Long Island branch campus of St. John's University in September. While dozens of U.S. colleges have opened overseas campuses, few foreign schools have sought to build outposts here, in part because of the cost and tighter regulation. But since its founding in 2003, leaders of Amity University, a system of private colleges based in New Delhi, have dreamed of creating a global network of schools. (AP Photo/Collin Binkley)BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — One of India's largest colleges is expanding into the U.S. with the purchase of one campus in New York and a proposal to buy two more, drawing opposition from state officials in Massachusetts about the quality of the education it will offer.

Thousands of Polish teachers protest against education reform

Posted: 10 Oct 2016 11:42 AM PDT

Teachers rally against education reform proposed by Poland's rightwing Law and Justice government in Warsaw on October 10, 2016Teachers held demonstrations across Poland on Monday in protest against education reforms proposed by the right-wing government that critics say could see thousands of jobs slashed. The protests, organised by the national teachers union ZNP, erupted as the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party came under fire over issues including the abortion law, public health spending and a constitutional court crisis. Around two thousand people, including elementary school pupils, took part in the Warsaw rally, chanting slogans such as "No to chaos" and "The death of Polish education", according to an AFP journalist.

Teachers' protests add to growing pressure on Polish gov't

Posted: 10 Oct 2016 07:47 AM PDT

Polish teachers protest against a plan by Poland's government to overhaul the public education system in Warsaw, Poland, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. Similar protests also took place in several other Polish cities and put added pressure on the conservative ruling party already facing growing criticism both domestically and internationally. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Teachers in Poland staged protests Monday over a government plan to overhaul the public school system, putting added pressure on the conservative ruling party, which has already been facing growing criticism both domestically and internationally.

Factbox: Chicago school finances flounder since 2012 teachers' strike

Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:54 AM PDT

(Reuters) - The fiscal health of Chicago's public school system, the nation's third largest, has deteriorated dramatically since its last major teachers' strike in 2012. A new strike would come at a time monetary help from the city and the state of Illinois is scarce. - Since October 2012, the credit ratings for the Chicago Board of Education fell into the junk level.

Strike deadline near, dire finances complicate Chicago school talks

Posted: 10 Oct 2016 05:54 AM PDT

Chicago Teachers Union members picket outside of the CPS headquarters in ChicagoChicago's public schools and its teachers' union make the final push to avert a looming strike on Tuesday with its success hanging on each side's willingness to accept unappetizing concessions. Unions want extra money for teachers from special economic development districts - a controversial proposal given their uneven, hard to predict revenue. The state, the city and the school district have all had their credit ratings cut to junk, or just above it, and a political stalemate in the state capital, Springfield, means Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the teachers cannot expect any help from outside.

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