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The teachers and staff in one of Chicago’s largest charter school networks overwhelmingly voted to join the Chicago Alliance of Charter Teachers and Staff (Chicago ACTS), an AFT affiliate. The more than 400 educators work at the 13 schools, with about 6,500 students, that are operated by the United Neighborhood Organization (UNO).
Hundreds of firefighters battled a wind-lashed 3,000-acre wildfire in California on Thursday that has already consumed one home and forced evacuations in mostly undeveloped sections of Riverside County.The fire remained at about 2,950 acres early on Thursday morning after growing overnight, and firefighters planned to build a containment line around the raging blaze that threatened homes on Wednes...
The nation’s second largest educational testing service apologized Wednesday for computer issues that disrupted state-mandated online tests for thousands of students in Indiana and Oklahoma this week – exams that are already controversial for their outsize role in determining school funding, student evaluations and teacher salaries. “We sincerely regret the problems we have caused,” said a spokes...
Former CIA Director David Petraeus, the general whose celebrated military career ended in scandal last November, has a new job title: professor.Petraeus will be join faculty at the University of Southern California, teaching, mentoring student veterans and ROTC members, and participating in seminars and panels, starting on July 1, the school announced Thursday.“USC is thrilled to have General Petr...
Workers under the age of 34 face higher unemployment rates than older workers and make up nearly half of the currently unemployed. As student debt continues to build up—exceeding even credit card debt—and wages stagnate or fall for workers with or without a college degree, young workers are accruing less wealth than their parents—perhaps the first time in U.S. history when a generation has failed to do better than its parents. Young workers struggle to find work and often take jobs that are below their education and skill level or bounce from contract to unpaid internship to temp job without the stability of a full-time regular job but with all the long hours and hard work.
An American tour operator has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor in North Korea for alleged “hostile acts” against the repressive regime, according to its official state news agency.Kenneth Bae, who is in his mid-40s and lives in Washington state, has been described by friends as a devout Christian who took tourists on trips to North Korea, The Associated Press reported.He was detained in No...
