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Law Enforcement Against Prohibition head Jack Cole works with restaurateur to have marijuana decriminalized in Rhode Island.

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"Teachers at the lower Manhattan school said that the day began with a fight between two students on the building’s third floor. After the fight, Bergtraum principal Andrea Lewis reportedly announced over the school’s loud speaker that in the future, students who fought would be arrested. Lewis reportedly told students and staff that for the rest of the day, the school’s bathrooms would be closed and teachers should not issue bathroom passes."

The staff of Normandy Crossing Elementary School outside Houston eagerly awaited the results of state achievement tests this spring. For the principal and assistant principal, high scores could buoy their careers at a time when success is increasingly measured by such tests. For fifth-grade math and science teachers, the rewards were more tangible: a bonus of $2,850. But when the results came back, some seemed too good to be true......

A tiny Texas school district may be the first in the nation to pass a law specifically allowing teachers and staff to pack heat when classes begin later this month.

High school teachers in Central Falls, RI could be out of a job. The Superintendent of the Central Falls school district has laid down a firm demand with the teachers union. Spend more time with the students, in and out of the classroom or else they'll be looking for work.

Staff to be removed during probe at LA school

LOS ANGELES – The entire staff at an elementary school where two teachers were arrested on suspicion of lewd conduct will be removed while the school district investigates, the Los Angeles school superintendent said Monday night.

Superintendent John Deasy told parents and media that 88 teachers and 40 support staff at Miramonte Elementary School are being replaced because a full investigation of allegations is disruptive and staffers will require support to get through the scandal.

The former vice principal at North Penn's Pennbrook Middle School is free on bail following his arrest Friday on charges that he allegedly engaged in inappropriate sexual conversations with a 13-year-old male student he befriended at the school.

This is the second incident of this type at a school district that held their community hostage with a teacher's strike just a year ago. They received what was considered a huge compensation package in order to "keep quality teachers." Some quality this guy shows.

An irate Staten Island mom blasted a grade school principal Wednesday for treating her son like a pint-sized Plaxico Burress after he brought a 2-inch-long toy gun to school.

"This principal is a bully and a coward, and needs to be held accountable," said Laura Timoney, 44, after her teary fourth-grader was nearly suspended for playing with the tiny toy at lunch.

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