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Greek government orders teachers not to strike
ATHENS -- Greece’s ruling coalition threatened Monday to arrest public high school teachers if they walk off work later this week, a strike that would potentially disrupt university-entrance exams for thousands of students. But the government's...
Tags: Job Layoffs, Politics, Government, Teaching and Learning, Strikes
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L.A. school board keeps classroom breakfast program
As Gov. Jerry Brown announced more funding for public schools Tuesday, the Los Angeles Board of Education agreed to pay for more school police, maintain a classroom breakfast program and keep supplemental staff at schools. The board also heard...
Tags: Personal Income, Politics, Government, Teaching and Learning, Economy, Business and Finance
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LAUSD board could ban suspensions for 'willful defiance'
Damien Valentine knows painfully well about a national phenomenon that is imperiling the academic achievement of minority students, particularly African Americans like himself: the pervasive and disproportionate use of suspensions from school for mouthing...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Justice and Rights, Teaching and Learning, Crime, Law and Justice, Civil Rights
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Ka-ching: Rick Perry's plan for Texa$ universities
There are three things Rick Perry would like to do to the great public universities of Texas, but he can only remember two of them. That’s a joke. You may remember that during a 2012 presidential debate, he started to list three departments of...
Tags: Politics, NPR, Teaching and Learning, Colleges and Universities, France
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Letters: How to define cheating in schools
Re "A clash over how to address teacher cheating," May 12 As a principal and a superintendent, I had always taken the view that one of the very important roles of a teacher was to model appropriate behavior. It would appear that the state Commission...Tags: School Examinations, Teaching and Learning, Los Angeles Unified School District, Geography
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Officials address restroom problem at Locke High
Chris Tellez sat in class, his stomach grinding. The 15-year-old felt fine in his first class two weeks ago at Animo Locke Charter High School 2 in Watts, but by second period he could wait no longer. "I had to use the restroom," he said. "But the...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Teaching and Learning, Health and Safety at School, Los Angeles Unified School District, Vandalism
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Police find gun, cocaine, pot in teacher's car parked at school
A Northern California teacher was arrested at school Thursday after officers found drugs and a gun in his car. William Jepson Middle School officials got a tip that the teacher’s car contained marijuana and a gun while parked on school grounds....Tags: Teaching and Learning, Drug Trafficking
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UC faculty leader warns of more exits if research loses ground
The systemwide leader of the University of California’s faculty said Friday that he hoped that the announced move of prominent neuroscience researchers from UCLA to USC reminds government leaders in Sacramento of the importance of research at UC....
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Science and Technology, Science, Teaching and Learning, Career and Workplace
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L.A. Unified knew of alleged teacher abuse 3 years before arrest
Los Angeles school district officials knew of sexual misconduct allegations in 2009 against a teacher at a Wilmington campus who was arrested more than three years later, the district's top administrator confirmed Tuesday. The teacher, Robert Pimentel,...
Tags: Police Arrests, Robert Pimentel, Abusive Behavior, Crimes, Career and Workplace
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L.A. Unified board will back classroom breakfast program
A majority of L.A. Unified School Board members said they will vote to continue a classroom breakfast program that feeds nearly 200,000 children but was in danger of being axed after sharp criticism by the teachers union. The program’s fate was...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Career and Workplace, Students, Unions
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For a piano teacher on Skype, lessons in the key of see
SAN GERONIMO, Calif. — Talc Tolchin ducks into the music studio he built behind his Marin County cottage, where the sun filters through a towering redwood tree and his daughter has dotted the flower beds with fairy houses. It's time for his next...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Colleges and Universities, Music, Skype
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L.A. mayoral candidates support making teacher evaluations public
Los Angeles' two mayoral candidates said Tuesday that they support making teacher evaluations public, going well beyond a level of disclosure that is supported by top school district officials. City Controller Wendy Greuel and City Councilman Eric...
Tags: School Examinations, Politics, Eric Garcetti, Elections, U.S. Army
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