Albany, NY – the Governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, voiced a recommendation that administrators in the Public Education Department as well as educators themselves agree to a salary freeze this fiscal year which starts on April 1st 2011. However, this is no joke, as Gov. Cuomo proposed this plan in an effort...
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New York City, NY – Justice Cynthia Kern of the Manhattan State Supreme Court issued her ruling today regarding the names of teachers and their ratings being made public. Justice Kern ruled that making public the teacher ratings for 12,000 New York City teachers and their names attached is not going to be arbitrary...
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New York City, NY – While still in celebration of CNN’s 25th anniversary back June, Larry King revealed he will be retiring from his show after two and a half decades of continuous programing. Now at the age of 77, King made the decision that it must be time for Larry King Live to...
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New York - An argument around whether or not to give off efficiency scores with regard to 12,000 New York City teachers is placing the parents right to know first, in opposition to the fears of educators. Teachers worry that they’re going to end up being unfairly put through ridicule determined by student test...
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Tags: cathie black, chancellor, education, educators, joel kleine, la, los angels, michael bloomberg, new york, new york city, nyc, public, rankings, school, state, student, teachers, tests scores
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Washington D.C. – The Supreme Court decided to listen to not one but two significant appeals coming from commercial America trying to prevent large legal cases. One particular circumstance consists of an enormous sexual discrimination lawsuit towards Wal-Mart. The other case facing the justices will be an enormous climatic change lawsuit delivered towards a...
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Tags: california, connecticut, global warming, hoex, judgment, midwest, new york, san francisco, supreme court, united states
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Atlanta - The quantity of “dropout factory” high schools in America has decreased since 2002, converting to at a minimum, 100,000 extra students obtaining a diploma, according to a new study. However, this report coming from America’s Promise Alliance being released Tuesday asserted that improvement needs to increase fivefold so that the united states...
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Tags: diploma, education, georgia, new york, obama, school, states, tennessee, texas
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ALBANY - U.S. Rep. Scott Murphy joined a small group of MedTech members in Albany for a round table forum to discuss key issues facing companies in the bio-science and medical technology industry. MedTech members from AMRI Global, AngioDynamics, BioSensors, Inc., Hodgson Russ LLP, Heslin Rothenberg Farley & Mesiti, as well as representatives from...
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Tags: albany, amri global, angiodynamics, biosensors, capital, delcath systems, heslin rothenberg farley, hodgson russ, medtech, mesiti, new york, scott murphy
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