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Teachers in Scottish schools are to strike over pay, increasing pressure on Scottish ministers to offer public sector workers an above-inflation pay rise. The NASUWT said teachers at three secondary schools in Glasgow would go on strike for one day next week, followed by strikes at three more...
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November 10, 2017 Loknath Das
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Congress-NCP government’s 2014 scheme scrapped Maharashtra’s Education Department has said that it cannot afford to provide ₹10 crore promised to upgrade 100 schools, as the government’s financial condition is not sound. Education Minister Vinod Tawde, while replying to a point of propriety raised by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)...
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November 10, 2017 Loknath Das
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Brick kilns, hot-mix plants and stone crushers have also been shut down In view of high levels of pollution in the Millennium City, the district administration on Thursday announced a slew of measures, including declaring holiday for schools for two days and intensifying public transport. Making an announcement,...
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November 10, 2017 Loknath Das
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“Schools are segregated because white people want them that way. … We won’t fix this problem until we really wrestle with that fact.” That’s what Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times Magazine writer and recipient of a prestigious “genius grant,” told me in a recent interview. “Genius grant” is...
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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Thousands of learners from several schools in Cape Town have marched to Parliament demanding greater safety at schools. The march follows incidents of gang-related shootings and clashes on the Cape Flats in recent weeks. Learners, members of Equal Education and teacher unions Sadtu and Neptosa took part in the protest....
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece for Salon about Michael Moore where I recounted the story of how he became the youngest elected public official in U.S. history. At 18, Moore decided to run for head of his Michigan community school board on the simple platform that he...
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
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