(sun-sentinel.com)The Broward Teachers Union held firm: Seniority outweighs student achievement when it comes to deciding who gets laid off.
The union contract mandates the last teachers hired are the first laid off. However, the school district in April asked for flexibility in placing teachers at the three schools academically ranked in the bottom 5 percent statewide, [...]

(yahoo news) The University of Chicago Press turned to Ingram Content Group to help meet the demand of orders and interest in F.A. Hayek’s work The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents–The Definitive Edition (ISBN978-0226320557).Orders for the book increased dramatically following a recommendation by talk show host Glenn Beck.
La Vergne, TN (Vocus) June 16, 2010 — To help meet the [...]

(Latimes) Thomas Shelden, a Los Angeles city schoolteacher who spent nearly two years outside the classroom with full pay and benefits while district officials investigated accusations against him, has been dismissed by the school board.
Shelden was a fourth-grade teacher at Charles White Elementary in Westlake when Los Angeles Unified School District officials removed him from [...]

(AP) NEW YORK – Hundreds of New York City teachers who are paid full salaries to do nothing while they await disciplinary hearings will be released from the city’s “rubber rooms” this fall, officials announced Thursday.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the teachers’ union announced a deal to reassign most of the teachers to administrative or nonclassroom work while their [...]

(Onlineathens) Cornel West revealed himself for what he is Thursday night in a talk at the University of Georgia’s Tate Student Center – a philosopher.
“The unexamined life is not worth living,” said West, drawing on sources that included not just Socrates and Sappho and latter-day voices such as James Brown and Bootsy Collins.
Famously controversial for [...]

(LA Times) UC Berkeley’s Goodwin Liu will be nominated to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, The Times has learned. Though he will face opposition from conservatives, he has admirers in that camp as well.
Reporting from Washington – President Obama will nominate UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu to the U.S. 9th Circuit Court [...]

(WTOL) – Orlando Reyes-Cairo was hired as a professor of Spanish at Owens Community College in 1999, which is one year after he got out of jail for attempted unlawful sexual conduct with a 13-year-old boy in north Toledo.
Representatives of Owens Human Resources Department say there was not a policy in place in 1999 to [...]

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