Vos Iz Neais (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
New York, NY – City union officials say pension checks of tens of thousands of retired teachers and school staff have been electronically canceled days after they were deposited. They are blaming the Bank of New York Mellon for the error that occurred sometime Thursday night or early Friday. The bank oversees electronic transfers for the [...]
Religion Clause (Free subscription) | yesterday
A kindergarten teacher in Dallardsville, Texas, has filed suit challenging a provision added to the Texas Education Code in 2007 ( S.B. 9 ) requiring school teachers to submit their fingerprint so that a criminal background check can be run on them. The complaint ( full text ) in McLaurin v. Texas Education Agency, (ED TX, filed 10/30/2009), alleges that teacher Pam McLaurin, who has been teaching...
L. A. Times Dodgers Blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
This week, campuses will participate in Mix It Up Day, a program that encourages students to avoid self-segregating, which experts say can affect school culture and increase tensions. At Hawthorne High School recently, students easily identified areas where different groups hang out: the basketball players are in a corner near the cafeteria, the rockers near the stage, ditchers and smokers near the...
The Gradebook (Free subscription) | yesterday
There's talk around the nation about the need to change the way teachers are trained, evaluated and paid. Even President Obama has called for reforms in this area. The Hillsborough school district hopes to get on board with the help...
The Observer-Dispatch News RSS (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
When recess came around at Clinton Elementary School last week, third-grade teacher Sarah Hullar stayed indoors with a handful of her students. In what’s become a common practice this autumn, she and other teachers used the recess period to teach lessons to students who had been out sick for several days with the flu.
NY Daily News (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Thousands of retired public school teachers and principals found themselves suddenly overdrawn this week when monthly pension checks bounced because of a processing error by the issuing bank.
montgomeryadvertiser.com (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
The Alabama Supreme Court has ruled that a school system can cancel a teacher's extra duties as a coach after the school year has ended.
City Room (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The city's teachers' union demanded to know how the pension checks of thousands of retired teachers and school staff members were electronically canceled.
Times of India (Free subscription) | yesterday
Five years after a music teacher of Delhi School of Music was accused of outraging the modesty of a minor student, a trial court on Saturday awarded one-year jail term to the teacher.
Positive News Media (Free subscription) | yesterday
MANILA, Nov. 8 (PNA) – A coalition wants the Omnibus Election Code (Batas Pambansa 881) amended so poll duties become optional and not mandatory for public school teachers nationwide.
PRWeb - Daily News Feed (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
President of Promethean North America, Mark Elliott, joined The Ron Clark Academy to celebrate great teachers across the country and honor middle school art teacher, Dr. Aimée Burgamy the 2009 Great American Teacher of the Year. (PRWeb Nov 6, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Promethean/North_America/prweb3166674.htm
Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Linda Borg PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- U.S. District Court Judge William Smith has ordered a 90-day stay while the Providence Teachers' Union and Superintendent Thomas Brady try to work out their differences over a state-ordered teacher assignment plan. Union President Steve Smith said that both parties will hire a mediator to help them reach an agreement over the new criterion-based hiring plan adopted...
The Enterprise Ledger (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Teacher Justin Andress chose teaching as a career because she wanted to do work that made a difference.
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Calcutta, Nov. 6: The Bengal government today dismissed human resource development minister Kapil Sibal's directive that the state scrap the process of appointing primary school teachers ignoring central regulations that are applicable across the country.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
44% of teachers from ethnic minorities say they have suffered discrimination Only a handful of black and ethnic minority teachers are made headteachers each year because of an "endemic culture of institutional racism" in England's schools, a study claimed today. Researchers at Manchester University and analysts at Education Data Surveys quizzed 556 state school teachers from ethnic minorities...
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chanah66mkg | 11/06/2009
CUNDY'S HARBOR, Maine – On the big screen, the leader of the Dead Poets Society at an all-boys prep school was an inspirational teacher played by Robin Williams. In real life, it's a balding amateur poet who drives around in his "Poemobile," visiting and documenting the graves of dead poets and calling attention to their works. Walter Skold, founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, just finished...
gali3460g | 11/06/2009
CUNDY'S HARBOR, Maine – On the big screen, the leader of the Dead Poets Society at an all-boys prep school was an inspirational teacher played by Robin Williams. In real life, it's a balding amateur poet who drives around in his "Poemobile," visiting and documenting the graves of dead poets and calling attention to their works. Walter Skold, founder of the Dead Poets Society of America, just finished...
obi jo | 10/28/2009
http://benkazie.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/administration-acknowledges-h1n1-vaccine-delays/ A “perfect storm” of old vaccine production technology, government directed distribution shortfalls, over optimistic estimates of vaccine dose availability, increasing numbers of H1N1 cases, and widespread publicity leading to increased public concern and fear have led to great anxiety over the shortage of swine...
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Did HHS change from the established distribution system?
This CDC document from June http://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/recs/acip/downloads/mtg-slides-jun09/16-2-wortley.pdf said there were two options for distribution,...
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