| Reward for Obama documents grows to $20,000 |
There's a growing interest in President Barack Obama's obscured youth, his college education and his Chicago career â€" and now the financial incentive for people to provide interesting documentation has doubled to $20,000.
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| Miami teachers union calls for tax amnesty |
The teachers union in Miami-Dade County has proposed what could be an innovative way to raise extra money for education: A tax amnesty program that would go after homestead exemption cheats.
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| L.A. Unified can apply for federal Race to the Top funds |
For the first time, the U.S. Department of education will let districts bypass state officials. L.A. Unified wants funds to alter the teacher evaluation process.For the first time, L.A. Unified and other individual school districts can apply for federal Race to the Top grants, bypassing California officials, including the governor, who had objected to the rules for receiving the education-reform incentives.
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| US schools with single-sex classrooms may face ACLU lawsuit |
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening legal action against as many as a dozen school districts from Maine to Mississippi unless they stop programs the group says illegally segregate boys and girls into single-sex classes and promote stereotypes. The group also was demanding that Florida's Department of education launch an investigation into widespread single-sex teaching in that state, where 32 schools in 16 districts offer single-gender classes. ...
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| Education Cuts Met With Strike in Spain |
Cuts to education and health care, which had been considered sacrosanct until now, have prompted nationwide strikes and protests.
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| Exclusive: Spy agency seeks cyber-ops curriculum |
FORT MEADE, Maryland (Reuters) - The National Security Agency is trying to expand U.S. cyber expertise needed for secret intelligence operations against adversaries on computer networks through a new cyber-ops program at selected universities. The cyber-ops curriculum is geared to providing the basic education for jobs in intelligence, military and law enforcement that are so secret they will only be revealed to some students and faculty, who need to pass security clearance requirements, during special summer seminars offered by NSA. ...
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| Teachers strike across Spain, protesting cuts |
MADRID (Reuters) - Spanish teachers went on strike on Tuesday to protest against cuts in education spending that unions say will put 100,000 substitute teachers out of work but that the government says are needed to tackle the euro zone debt crisis. The central government has ordered Spain's 17 autonomous regions to cut 3 billion euros ($4 billion) from education spending this year, as part of a tough program to trim the public deficit to an EU-agreed level of 5.3 percent of gross domestic product. ...
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| This month on Inside the Middle East |
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| Spain teachers, students strike over spending cuts |
 Teachers and students at all levels of Spain's education system went on strike Tuesday to protest wide-ranging government spending cuts, chanting and erecting makeshift tombs at university campuses to symbolize what they claim will be the death of the country's schooling system.
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| Spanish teachers strike at all education levels |
Teachers at all levels of Spain's education system are on strike to protest billions in spending cuts enacted as part of an austerity drive.
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