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The messy complications of breakfast in the classroom
The Los Angeles Unified School District is in a period of tremendous upheaval that, it’s hoped, will result in better education for its students. With so much changing and so much at stake, of course there are more than a few daggers drawn. But when...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Career and Workplace, Students, Teachers, Michael Bloomberg
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Garcetti and Greuel trade barbs on union support on eve of debate
Candidates Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel prepared for a Thursday night debate — their first since the two emerged as finalists to be the next mayor of Los Angeles — by renewing their sniping over who would be most beholden to public...
Tags: Elections, Politics, Antonio Villaraigosa, Wendy Greuel, Entertainment
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L.A. teachers vote 'no confidence' in Supt. Deasy
Los Angeles teachers overwhelmingly expressed "no confidence" in L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy in the first vote of its kind in the nation's second-largest school system. In the weeklong referendum that ended Wednesday, 91% of the participating teachers...
Tags: Academic Progress, Teaching and Learning, Lobbying, Teachers, J. Paul Getty Trust
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A deadly surprise on the Peninsula
The Army of the Potomac had plenty of reason to feel confident when it began marching up the Peninsula on April 4, 1862. Gun barrels glistening in the fine spring weather, the advancing columns of blue-clad troops made up the largest army America had...
Tags: Hampton Roads, Science and Technology, Career and Workplace, West Point, James River
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Union for patient-care workers at UC hospitals to take strike vote
The union representing nearly 13,000 University of California patient-care workers plans to take a strike vote beginning Tuesday. The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, or AFSCME 3299, will hold the strike vote through...Tags: Elections, Politics, Hospitals and Clinics, Abusive Behavior, Career and Workplace
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L.A. Unified board will back classroom breakfast program
A majority of L.A. Unified School Board members said they will vote to continue a classroom breakfast program that feeds nearly 200,000 children but was in danger of being axed after sharp criticism by the teachers union. The program’s fate was...
Tags: Teaching and Learning, Career and Workplace, Students, Teachers
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L.A. Unified fight focuses on breakfast program
Los Angeles Unified will eliminate a classroom breakfast program serving nearly 200,000 children, reject more school police, cut administrators and scale back new construction projects unless the school board votes to approve them, according to Supt. John...
Tags: Elections, Politics, Teaching and Learning, Career and Workplace, Teachers
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Angry teachers take a break, but threats to Mexican reform remain
MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has been busy telling the world about the economic miracle the country will experience after lawmakers approve the package of reforms he calls the Pact for Mexico. Nobody said the reforms would...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Abusive Behavior, U.S. Congress, Career and Workplace, Teachers
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Teachers vote no confidence in Supt. Deasy
Los Angeles teachers overwhelmingly expressed “no confidence” in L.A. schools Supt. John Deasy in the first vote of its kind in the nation’s second-largest school system. Over the weeklong referendum that ended Wednesday, more than...
Tags: Elections, Teaching and Learning, Academic Progress, Politics, Lobbying
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COLUMN: Thatcher's vigorous virtues effective
Washington Post Writers GroupWASHINGTON -- She had the eyes of Caligula and the lips of Marilyn Monroe. So said Francois Mitterrand, the last serious socialist to lead a major European nation, speaking of Margaret Thatcher, who helped bury socialism as a doctrine of governance....Tags: Government, United Kingdom, Tony Blair, Religion and Belief, Charles de Gaulle
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Details of alleged misconduct released by District 135
An Orland Park teacher allegedly referred to a parent as a "fat slob," derided the hygiene and clothing of special education students as young as 3 and said she hated one student "so much I could kill him." The allegations, contained in Orland School...Tags: Elections, Politics, Teaching and Learning, Voting, Career and Workplace
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Police union says Baltimore County ignoring court's reimbursement ruling
The Baltimore County police union says county officials have ignored a ruling by the state's highest court to reimburse some 400 retired Police Department employees for overpaid insurance premiums. A Maryland Court of Appeals decision in November...
Tags: Career and Workplace, Health and Safety at Work, Baltimore County, Health Insurance
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