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Wethersfield Board Won't Lay Off Teachers
The Hartford CourantThe school board has ruled out teacher layoffs to achieve a $325,000 cut to its budget mandated by the town council and will meet next week to make the necessary reductions. "I didn't want to decrease the number of teachers I have," Superintendent...Tags: Job Layoffs, Career and Workplace, Teaching and Learning, Wethersfield, Unemployment
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School board votes to keep language teacher
A Mandarin language instructor will stay on this summer and next school year, Laguna Beach Unified School District board members decided at its Tuesday night meeting. The board approved a contract for Jean Wu to teach Mandarin to Thurston Middle...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Personal Income
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Awards and honors for Lehigh Valley residents
Jaehyun Park, a graduating senior at Moravian Academy, was named one of approximately 550 semifinalists in the 2013 U.S. Presidential Scholars Program. The semifinalists were selected from more than 3,900 candidates on the basis of superior achievements,...Tags: Science and Technology, Awards and Prizes, Technology, Culture, Human Interest
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'The English Teacher' has a class of underachievers
"The English Teacher" is a tragedy masquerading as a comedy and doing a disservice to both. The same could be said for the film's normally fine cast. Julianne Moore, Greg Kinnear, Nathan Lane and Michael Angarano have all had better days. The movie...Tags: Movies, Lily Collins, Michael Angarano, Julianne Moore, What Maisie Knew (movie)
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The woeful selection of PCC leadership
As one who taught at PCC for 40 years, I was personally involved in the establishment of state-mandated shared government procedures (AB 1725) which require that faculty, staff and students be significantly involved in matters that affect them,...Tags: Money and Monetary Policy, Education, Teaching and Learning, Budgets and Budgeting
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Lauderhill Middle staff ignored teacher-student sex, lawsuit claims
When the teacher took the 13-year-old boy's virginity in a computer room at Lauderhill Middle School, so began a year's worth of sexual trysts both on and off campus. All the while, school staff and adminstrators turned a blind eye, according to a lawsuit...
Tags: Justice System, Laws, Lauderhill Middle School, Abusive Behavior, Teaching and Learning
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'The English Teacher' Review: Agile Performances Elevate This Pleasant Comedy
ReutersMay 17 (TheWrap.com) - "Pleasant" is one of those words that English teachers and editors always put on their verboten lists for aspiring writers as being too vague and namby-pamby. But pleasant is the perfect word with which to describe "The English...Tags: Movies, Lily Collins, Michael Angarano, Iron Man (movie), Star Trek (movie, 2009)
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Allentown schools proposed budget restores elementary school art
Allentown School District's proposed final budget includes full-day kindergarten, elementary school art class and a full complement of elementary school principals. But it also calls for eliminating 132 teaching positions, raising taxes 8.5 percent and...Tags: Allentown, Teaching and Learning, Tom Corbett, Budgets and Budgeting
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CPS documents raise questions about closings
Making the case to close Ericson Academy on the West Side, Chicago Public Schools officials stressed that it would cost $9.6 million to fix the 51-year-old building. What they didn't point out in materials provided to parents was that they planned to...
Tags: Chicago Public Schools, Environmental Issues, Chicago Teachers Union, Separation of Church and State, Energy Saving
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District 15 teachers file grievance over early dismissal
Just days after the Palatine Community Consolidated School District 15 Board of Education voted in favor of dismissing students early on Fridays to allow teachers time for professional development, the teachers union filed a grievance, saying the schedule...
Tags: Arbitration, Career and Workplace, Teaching and Learning, Unions, Students
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Panel urges rebuilding of Connecticut school on site of massacre
ReutersNEWTOWN, Connecticut (Reuters) - A special task force of elected town officials on Friday recommended tearing down Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 children and six adults were shot to death in December, and rebuilding it on the site...Tags: Adam Lanza, Sandy Hook Elementary School, Teaching and Learning, Elections, Shootings
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Husky Students Select Award-winning Faculty
The Bishop Carroll Catholic High School Class of 2013 has selected the winners of the Teacher Superlative Awards. The awards are given to teachers for making lasting impressions on students and are awarded based on popular vote. Teachers Jonathan Nagy,...Tags: Education, Teaching and Learning, Students
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