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Wisconsin High School health teacher has used abstinence-only and comprehensive curriculums, and he said students need all the information they can get about sex to make the best choices. But teaching them about contraceptives could land him and other teachers in court.

This is John Stossel's show aired on Fox Business network on February 18, 2010. He discusses here the state of US education and negative impact teachers' unions have on it.

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.

Special Needs Student tapes two teachers who verbally abuse her. Leads to one teacher resigning and the other getting "mandatory bullying training".

A Houston special needs teacher attacked an 13-year-old as others watched
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As a result of Bank Transfer Day, in which consumers were encouraged to switch to credit unions, 54 percent of credit unions reported an increase in share growth, according to a survey of 10,000 credit unions by the National Association of Federal Credit Unions.

Also reports a minimum of 650,000 account transfers since mid Sept.

"I was fired for trying to start a union at the UFT," said a dumbfounded Callaghan, who worked for the union's newsletter and as a speechwriter for union leaders for the past 13 years.

Callaghan said he personally told United Federation of Teachers President Michael Mulgrew on June 9 about his intention to try to organize nonunionized workers at UFT headquarters.

"I told him I want to have the same rights that teachers have," said Callaghan, 63, of Staten Island. "He told me he didn't want that, that he wanted to be able to fire whoever he wanted to."

April 13 (Bloomberg) -- Taxpayers across the U.S. owe public school teacher retirement accounts about $933 billion, nearly triple the amount reported by the plans themselves, a study says.

Tammy Mullins Powers, the mother of 18-year-old high school student Jordan Powers who is romancing her 41-year-old teacher-turned-lover James Hooker, lobbies for a California bill that would make relationships between teachers and students illegal, even if the student is legally able to consent.