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Another laurel for Md. schools
A new report showing Maryland schools now lead the nation in efforts to boost student achievement levels has vindicated the commitment the state made more than a decade ago to adequately fund education and adopt smart policy choices that return the...
Tags: Students, Education, Human Interest, Academic Progress, Teaching and Learning
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A raw, realistic reflection from a first-year Baltimore teacher
As this week marks the end of the school year for Baltimore City schools, I thought I'd share a piece sent to me by a first-year teacher that draws a rather provocative conclusion that many of the district's struggles are fueled by its own low...Tags: Students, Personal Income, Teaching and Learning
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Homer E. Favor, civil rights activist
Dr. Homer Eli Favor, a retired Morgan State University economist who was an original member of the civil rights activist group whose members called themselves the "Goon Squad," died of heart disease Saturday at the Baltimore-Washington Medical Center. A...
Tags: Glen Burnie, Human Interest, Morgan State University, The New York Times, Christianity
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Imperial High's 107th senior class closes out graduation season
Staff WriterIMPERIAL — The senior class of Imperial High School closed out the Valley’s graduation season after nearly 200 seniors participated in the school’s 107th commencement ceremony at Shimamoto-Simpson Stadium here Friday night. Like high...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Students, University of California, Los Angeles, Science and Technology, Robert J. Lopez
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Middletown School Board To Discuss Budget Cuts June 25
The Hartford CourantThe board of education will meet on June 25 to consider budget cuts in response to the common council's budget allocation in May. When it passed a $135.9 million budget May 15, the council set the school budget at $76.47 million, an increase of nearly $4...Tags: Government Debt, Layoffs and Downsizing, Middletown, Budgets and Budgeting, Unemployment
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Wendy Paulson, birder and conservationist
It takes a trained ear to know the call of the grasshopper sparrow. Or a bobolink. Or even a meadowlark. For Wendy Paulson, standing in the grasslands of North Barrington and focusing her telescope on a rare savannah sparrow for all to see, it brings...
Tags: Environmental Issues, Customs and Tradition, Endangered Species, Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning
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Internationally known Victoria Schneider leads Mount Dora School of Ballet workshop
MOUNT DORA — Kathryn Wheeler wants the world for her students at the Mount Dora School of Ballet. Wheeler, who founded the school in 2002, has brought internationally known teachers of ballet to Lake to give students a taste of professional ballet...
Tags: Students, Education, Entertainment, Dance, Entertainment Events
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CPS announces teacher layoffs; union braces for more
The Chicago Teachers Union knew school closings were going to be a blow for its membership, and it's starting to learn how big the hit could be. The announcement by Chicago Public Schools on Friday that 420 teachers, more than a third of them with...
Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Chicago Teachers Union, Budgets and Budgeting, Unemployment, Teaching and Learning
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Calexico Unified School District settles teachers' grievance
Staff WriterCALEXICO — An eight-month-old grievance between the Associated Calexico Teachers and the Calexico Unified School District over certain requirements for moving up in the salary schedule was recently settled, a union leader said Thursday. The...Tags: Teaching and Learning
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Eastwood faculty and students say goodbye to school
The Eastwood school's librarian, Cheryl Madden, had just finished saying her farewells to the fifth-grade class seated attentively in their dress-up clothes in the front-row seats. She ended with a line from a quote, saying that "one can go backward...
Tags: Students, Kevin Kamenetz, PTA, Dundalk, Teaching and Learning
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CPS to lay off hundreds of teachers from closing schools
Chicago Public Schools said Friday that 663 employees at schools the district is closing, including teachers, teaching assistants and bus aides, don't qualify to follow students to their new schools and will be laid off. The total includes 420 teachers,...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Government Debt, Chicago Teachers Union, Budgets and Budgeting, Unemployment
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For North Lawndale teen, graduation, college scholarship is a story of triumph
To her teachers, mentors, friends and sisters, Rachael Pillot is a fiery visionary, a teenager from a dirt-poor community who strove to finish high school and get into college despite tremendous odds. She was only 7 years old when she watched her mother...
Tags: Students, Drug Trafficking, Punishment, Financial Aid, Crime, Law and Justice
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