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• First-year teacher works through struggles - Orlando Sentinel

  17-01-2015 23:14
  
  First-year teacher works through struggles
  Orlando Sentinel
  Nationwide, about 13 percent of teachers change schools or quit each year, with 40 percent to 50 percent estimated to leave the profession within the first five years, according to the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.–based advocacy ...
  
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• Longtime teacher pleads guilty to drug possession - KCCI Des Moines

  17-01-2015 18:26
  
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  Longtime teacher pleads guilty to drug possession
  KCCI Des Moines
  Flaws has been a social studies teacher and varsity girls' softball coach at the school for more than 30 years. The school has won four state softball titles during his tenure. Flaws has taken a leave of absence from his teaching and coaching positions ...
  Carlisle teacher pleads guilty to drug chargeDesMoinesRegister.com
  
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• Educators wary as Cuomo eyes teacher evaulation reforms - Buffalo News

  17-01-2015 15:43
  
  Educators wary as Cuomo eyes teacher evaulation reforms
  Buffalo News
  Andrew M. Cuomo gives his State of the State and budget address on Wednesday, you can bet teachers will be paying attention. Cuomo has promised to unveil a “full agenda” for education reform during the speech. While he has signaled he is exploring a ...
  
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• Queens gym teacher pleads guilty to sex with two students - New York Daily News

  17-01-2015 12:43
  
  New York Daily News
  Queens gym teacher pleads guilty to sex with two students
  New York Daily News
  The Ridgewood teacher admitted to having sex with a 16-year-old Grover Cleveland High School student and exposing herself and performing a sex act on a second 16-year-old student, officials said. Her attorney said she had a diagnosed “depressive ...
  Former Queens schoolteacher pleads guilty to sexual contact with male studentsWABC-TV
  Teacher who had sex with 2 students gets probationNew York
  
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• Close to Home: Teacher shortage: Crisis or opportunity - Santa Rosa Press Democrat

  17-01-2015 09:07
  
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  Close to Home: Teacher shortage: Crisis or opportunity
  Santa Rosa Press Democrat
  This artwork by Donna Grethen relates to education and how teachers can inspire different things in different students. It could also relate to grading schools and giving funding based on how the teachers and schools perform.
  
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• Detective: Teen confessed to killing teacher - Clarksville Leaf Chronicle

  17-01-2015 08:53
  
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  Detective: Teen confessed to killing teacher
  Clarksville Leaf Chronicle
  FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2015 file photo Philip Chism sits in Salem Superior Court in Salem, Mass., during a hearing. Chism is charged with raping and killing Colleen Ritzer, his high school math teacher on Oct. 22, 2013. In a pre-trial hearing Friday ...
  Detective: Teen Confessed to Killing Teacher but Denied RapeABC News
  Testimony: 'Trigger word' set off Danvers teacher murderBoston Herald
  
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• Missouri revamps teacher preparation - STLtoday.com

  17-01-2015 07:19
  
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  Missouri revamps teacher preparation
  STLtoday.com
  But supporters say teacher programs have long suffered from a lack of rigor. In a recent report, for example, the National Council on Teacher Quality concluded that students in teaching programs were more likely to graduate with better grades than ...
  
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• Teen injured, teacher grazed in shooting at Wisconsin Lutheran High School - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  17-01-2015 05:59
  
  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  Teen injured, teacher grazed in shooting at Wisconsin Lutheran High School
  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
  A 15-year-old boy was injured and a Wisconsin Lutheran High School teacher grazed in the toe during a shooting in the school's parking lot Thursday night. The altercation stemmed from an earlier dispute between two girls attending a basketball game ...
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• Carlisle teacher pleads guilty to drug charge - DesMoinesRegister.com

  17-01-2015 05:51
  
  Carlisle teacher pleads guilty to drug charge
  DesMoinesRegister.com
  Carlisle teacher Jim Flaws pleaded guilty Thursday morning to possessing crack cocaine during a traffic stop on Oct. 16. Flaws, who has been teaching at Carlisle middle school and coaching varsity girls' softball for more than 30 years, was pulled over ...
  
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• Top Lehigh Valley teachers had $95000 paychecks in 2012-13 - Allentown Morning Call

  17-01-2015 04:29
  
  Allentown Morning Call
  Top Lehigh Valley teachers had $95000 paychecks in 2012-13
  Allentown Morning Call
  The median salary for the approximately 6,500 teaching professionals in the Valley, a group that also includes specialists and some administrators, was $62,750 — meaning half earned more than that and half less. For the first time, the state ...
  
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• Weymouth High School honors longtime teacher Vincent DiSessa who turns 90 - WCVB Boston

  17-01-2015 03:19
  
  Boston Globe
  Weymouth High School honors longtime teacher Vincent DiSessa who turns 90
  WCVB Boston
  From the students holding signs at the street entrance, to those waiting inside with flowers and balloons, to the special cake baked by the culinary class, to the life-size poster cutouts from the graphics department, the message was clear: 65 years of ...
  Teacher celebrates 90th birthday at Weymouth High SchoolBoston Globe
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• Jamesville-DeWitt substitute teacher charged with sex crimes involving ... - WSYR

  17-01-2015 03:18
  
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  Jamesville-DeWitt substitute teacher charged with sex crimes involving ...
  WSYR
  Sheriff's Deputies have arrested a Jamesville-DeWitt substitute teacher for sex crimes involving several underage victims. DeWitt (WSYR-TV) – Sheriff's Deputies have arrested a Jamesville-DeWitt substitute teacher for sex crimes involving several ...
  Substitute teacher charged with sexually abusing children in DeWitt, police saySyracuse.com
  Sexual abuse charges for substitute teacher at Jamesville-DeW
  
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• Teacher Charged with Criminal Sexual Conduct with Minor - WLTX.com

  17-01-2015 02:31
  
  The State
  Teacher Charged with Criminal Sexual Conduct with Minor
  WLTX.com
  Richland County, SC (WLTX) - A teacher with Lexington-Richland School District Five is being accused of having sex with an underage girl. Richland County deputies charged Dan Halback Jr., 27, with criminal sexual conduct with a minor and two counts of ...
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• Belfield Teacher and Principal Fired for Inappropriate Conduct - KFYR-TV

  17-01-2015 01:11
  
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  Belfield Teacher and Principal Fired for Inappropriate Conduct
  KFYR-TV
  The charges against Jeffrey Lamprecht came about after a report filed by another teacher last April indicated that he had a female student in his office for a long period of time... took a picture of her... asked her if she was sexually active... and ...
  
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• New bill could change teacher layoffs - KARE

  17-01-2015 01:04
  
  KARE
  New bill could change teacher layoffs
  KARE
  Sprecht wants instead to focus on better teacher evaluation, saying districts should have their own layoff policies. It says teachers should have improvement plans, peer coaching and the feedback of their principals to improve. And while Bonoff says ...
  Dayton 'open' to Bonoff teacher seniority bill, miffed with Senate GOP leader HannMinneapolis Star Tribune
  DFLer targets teacher seniority layoffsTwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
  
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• Students surprise Catholic teacher who won national award - WPVI-TV

  17-01-2015 00:59
  
  Students surprise Catholic teacher who won national award
  WPVI-TV
  Students, staff and family of Beth Anne Gallagher gathered for a special mass at the school to surprise her with the National Catholic Educational Association Distinguished Teacher Award. "She's going to be shocked, super surprised," said Beth Anne's ...
  St. Dot's teacher Gallagher named one of best in countryThe Delaware County Daily Times
  
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