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Australian Education Union announces phony “week of action” over Victorian teachers’ workplace agreement The Australian Education Union (AEU) in Victoria is currently promoting a “week of action” for teachers as part of its discussions with the state Labor government on a new industrial agreement covering public schools. The union’s initiative would be more accurately described as a “week of diversions.” Suggested activities consist of teachers wearing red clothes to work, downl...

Financial assistance for individuals, school districts and communities in Northwest Indiana, whose lives and operations have been disrupted for more than a year by the COVID-19 pandemic, soon will be on its way. The Democratic-controlled U.S. House voted 220-211 Wednesday to send the American Rescue Plan to Democratic President Joe Biden to be signed into law Thursday. It previously passed the Democratic-controlled Senate 50-49. Not a single Republican in either chamber supported the measure, i...

Article content A Blue Cross Blue Shield affiliate sued “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical industry’s imprisoned enfant terrible, in a Manhattan federal court Thursday, alleging a scheme to monopolize the market for Daraprim, the “gold-standard treatment” for the parasitic infection toxoplasmosis. Shkreli’s companies raised the drug’s price by more than 4,000 per cent after acquiring the rights in 2015, then conspired to “thwart generic competition” through “dec...

Minister Foley announces new measures to tackle educational disadvantage   Minister for Education Norma Foley TD today (Monday 1 March) announced further supports to those schools catering for children and young people who are experiencing the highest levels of educational disadvantage. As part of the Budget 2021 measures to tackle educational disadvantage, the Minister announced: a one-point reduction in the staffing schedule to reduce class-size in all DEIS Urban Band 1 prima...

Title Text:  Caption:  Description:  Image Credit:  Michael Appleton/Mayoral Photography Office As the leader of the nation’s largest public school system, Richard Carranza’s decisions affect the everyday lives of hundreds of thousands of students and families in New York City. Yet despite some successes, such as student gains at resource-intensive community schools, Carranza has faced a fierce backlash on efforts to scrap exams to get into elite high schools and gifted and talented pro...

Latest Idea In Education: Graduate Students By Lowering Standards January 13, 2014 New Mexico has one of the lowest graduation rates in the country. The children do poorly in math and science, largely because of the high rate on illegal immigration into the state and because of the breakdown of the family. Only about 70% graduate high school in four years. They are resolving the problem, not by raising standards, but by lowering the bar. They will give two diplomas now, the regular diploma whi...

Said i started fox news because nixon would have survived. >> i think its a great point. i think the most important thing is the agenda. i went back and looked. during 1998, the year of the star scandal, president clinton, double funding. a child support, nursing home standards, class size. hoping the advance peace in the movie east between israelis and palestinians. the kyoto acovered. all of that happene. mr. trump has a republican senate. president clinton did not have either. he got all of t...

It wouldnt have been pretty. trump has these tools, has these platforms that didnt exist in 1998 or in the form they exist now, and, you know, if he survives this, i think in large part it will be because of that and roger ailes will be right, which is he said i started fox news because nixon would have survived with a republican. >> i think its a great point. i think the most important thing he needs is an agenda that people liked. thats what saved bill clinton. during the 1998, the year of the...

My essay. jacob tells me many of his friends have even applied for extensions from colleges in hopes of buying some extra time. many seniors have also missed a.c.t. and s.a.t. testing dates. >> whats in jeopardy is early applications in particular, the fordham. i was recently given an extension to that school but i dont know if ill make the extension date even with this because of the strike continuing longer than maybe they expected. >> the teachers strike started october 17th with 25,000 teach...

Extension because of the strike taking longer than expected. >> 25,000 fire chiefers walked off the job. nearly 300,000 students have been out of school. class size and staffing are two of the issues holding up the aagreement. >> i hope as the strike ends soon, id like to get back to school. meet with my teachers. >> reporter: just think about this, today there was supposed to be a psat test. >> that had to be cancelled. a lot of the students are coming to some of the schools that are even opene...