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Teachers to get pay raises -- in 2014
Florida's teachers are to get pay raises -- but the money won't be available until next year and the raises won't be the $2,500 across-the-board hikes Gov. Rick Scott wanted. Still Scott "applauded" the legislative leaders' decision to earmark $480...
Tags: Education, Politics, Teaching and Learning, The Miami Herald, Executive Branch
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Florida teachers to get pay raises under budget plan
TALLAHASSEE — Florida's teachers will get pay raises, but not until next year — and they won’t be doled out as the $2,500, across-the-board pay hikes Gov. Rick Scott wanted. Florida lawmakers' on Monday finalized their 2013-14 state...Tags: Public Schools, Everglades, Teachers, Palm Beach County, Budgets and Budgeting
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ANCCS Hosts Statewide Yup'ik Spelling Bee
Channel 2 NewsThe Alaska Native Cultural Charter School hosted the Alaska Statewide Yup'ik Spelling Bee on Saturday, April 27. Emily Tunuchuk from ANCCS took first place in the competition. The Yup'ik Spelling Bee was coordinated under the leadership of Freda Dan; it... -
LETTER: ALEC too far right for these groups
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is a group promoting far-right legislation. Its tax exempt status is currently challenged, as its sole purpose is to formulate legislation promoting extremely conservative points of view and helping the...Tags: Reckitt Benckiser, Merck & Company Incorporated, Coca-Cola Co., Hewlett-Packard Co., Renewable Energy
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Monday Morning Reads; Budget deals, last minute lobbying and oysters
TALLAHASSEE -- Good morning and happy Monday. It's the start to the last week of session, so the capitol is buzzing with last minute deal making. Here's what we're reading this morning. * Orlando Sentinel details what's still left on lawmakers'...Tags: Palm Beach (Palm Beach, Florida), Rick Scott
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Indiana Legislature passes $30 billion budget
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indiana General Assembly approved a two-year, $30 billion budget early Saturday that gives Gov. Mike Pence a partial victory in his quest for an income tax reduction and restores some money cut from education and...Tags: Politics, Executive Branch, Scott Pelath, Budgets and Budgeting, Crime, Law and Justice
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Quinn defends $98 million grant to charter school group
Tribune reporterGov. Pat Quinn today defended giving a $98 million state grant to the United Neighborhood Organization to build charter schools, a day after he froze what's left of the money over concerns the group hired contractors related to a top UNO executive....Tags: Illinois Governor, Chicago Sun-Times, Pat Quinn, Schools, Rahm Emanuel
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My challenge to Karen Lewis
A year ago Chicago teachers, clinicians, paraprofessionals and parents hoped that their strength in numbers and unity would yield the legislative action and contract settlement needed to remedy the problems teachers face in the classroom —...Tags: Public Schools, Jesse Owens, Politics, Teachers, Elections
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Orange County college prep charter launching a Sports Business magnet program
Sentinel School ZoneCentral Florida Leadership Academy, a three-year-old Orange County charter school, will open a Sports Business magnet program for high school students this fall. The magnet, the first of its kind in Central Florida, will be a partnership with the...Tags: Education, Orange County (Florida), Schools, Colleges and Universities
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Springs art lovers oppose moving museum from current site
Coral Springs Mayor Vince Boccard's idea of relocating Coral Springs Charter School to the Center for the Arts site hasn't gone down well with art lovers in the community. A few among them attended last week's city commission meeting to implore officials...Tags: Artists, Arts and Culture, Museums, Arts, Coral Springs
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Let parents dictate school funding
Regarding, “Charter school parents form advocacy group,” (News, April 23), this battle between public schools and charter schools is completely off base. Rather than this silly fighting, let’s change the very paradigm upon which public...Tags: Schools
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A Bronzeville charter school makes its mark in robotics
If their robot was ever going to fling Frisbees well enough to win a world championship, the students at Perspectives/IIT Math & Science Academy had work to do. Joe Michaelis, head coach of the Bronzeville school's robotics team, ran through the...
Tags: Education, Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Illinois Institute of Technology
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