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...strong connection between teacher quality and student achievement; schools cannot afford to lose effective teachers because of seniority rules. Moreover, because teacher pay is also related to seniority—and recent hires have the lowest salaries—cutting only the newest hires means that school districts must lay off more teachers in order to balance their budgets, further straining school resources and driving up class sizes...
Russia considers itself a nation of patriots, but when it comes to defending the motherland, men over the age of 18 aren't quite ready to lay it on the line. This age cohort was born in 1991, the year Communism collapsed and the Soviet Union became moribund, and may not be as indoctrinated into the old patriotism as previous generations. The year 1991 also had a particularly low birth rate, which makes a huge peacetime draft even more of a challenge. The young men are also entering employment and working age - and families in the middle of Russia...
...check-in area, where waiting associates joined in. In front of horrified passengers, one of the brawlers was allegedly knocked to the ground, and with what was described as a sickening "crunch" fatally bashed in the head with a steel post used to mark passenger lines. As the man lay dying in a pool of blood, the mob fled in taxis. One group was picked up by police in Sydney's south; four men have been charged with affray, or group-fighting in a public place that puts bystanders in danger. (See pictures of wildfires devastating Australia...
...Protesters plan to "lay siege" to London's financial institutions, according to G-20 Meltdown's website. There's even the promise of a "Banquet at the Bank" and the chance to "feast on a rare delicacy: bankers' brains!" Features like that are all meant in jest, says Michael Rainsbro, a spokesman for the group. "It's April Fool's day," he says. "Do you seriously think we're gonna go down and eat bankers' brains? Come...
Last February, the Alliance instituted a hiring freeze in anticipation of a large loss in funding due to statewide budget cuts. It announced that it planned to push reduced work hours, early retirement, and lay off 300 employees in an effort to manage its funding deficit...