Chicago Mayor’s Push to Add Charter Schools Hangs Over Teachers’ Strike

In the Chicago teachers’ strike, Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s oft-cited goal of expanding charter schools is not officially on the table, but a union official called it “the elephant in the room.”







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Chicago Teachers’ Strike Poses Risks for Obama

Some political analysts say the strike by Chicago teachers could open fissures between Obama supporters like unions and wealthy liberal donors who sometimes back causes that unions oppose.







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Merchant Marine Academy Professor Won’t Be Fired for Colorado Shooting Joke

A humanities teacher at the United States Merchant Marine Academy, who had faced dismissal, will also undergo sensitivity training after making a joke in class about the movie theater massacre.







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Ed. big’s ‘$in’ tax

A city public-school principal’s reputed idea of a good time in Las Vegas will cost the city $300,000.The cash settlement ends a sexual-harassment suit filed by Frank Farino, an assistant principal at PS 43Q in Far Rockaway, Queens, who said his ex-boss hit on him during a...



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Safety class is required for students to get parking

In several states, students who want a campus parking space have to take a safety class.

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City: Affair, theft reason principal quit post

City investigators have revealed why a Bronx principal hastily resigned from his high-paying job: He had been caught stealing and having sex with one of his aides.







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