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FOCUS ON EDUCATION
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Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Denton Record-Chronicle
Many worry new Chicago
schools deal won’t stick
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS
and Steely Dan, and now a con-
sultant to the U.S. Department
of Defense.
The event is called “From
Steely Dan to Cybersecurity:
Asymmetrical Thinking in a
Hyper-Connected, Collabora-
tive World.” After Baxter speaks,
competitions through the Col-
lab Lab will be announced, such
as big data and business idea
challenges.
The event will be on Level 3
of the University Union, 1155
Union Circle, with doors open-
ing at 3 p.m. and programming
beginning at 3:30 p.m.
Vegan dining hall
to celebrate five years
Friday marks five years since
the opening of Mean Greens, the
vegan dining hall at UNT.
Mean Greens was the first
all-vegan university dining hall
in the country, and will celebrate
with a feast, live entertainment
and games from 11:30 a.m. to
1:30 p.m.
This year the hall is working
to expand menu options and is
building a hydroponic garden in
a freight trailer, called Freight
Farm.
The dining hall is open to the
public for $7.50 a meal, and stu-
dents, faculty and staff can use
meal plans to eat at the hall. The
dining hall is behind Maple
By Don Babwin
and Jason Keyser
Associated Press
CHICAGO — Teachers in
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Hall.
University slates kickoff
event for Collab Lab
the nation’s third-largest school
district pulled back from a
threatened strike after a tenta-
tive last-minute contract agree-
ment that Chicago officials ac-
knowledged Tuesday may
amount to a temporary fix and
parents worried would fall
apart.
Set to open in 2017, the Col-
lab Lab at UNT will have a kick-
off event Nov. 10.
The event will feature Jeffiey
Baxter, a Grammy-winning gui-
tarist from the Doobie Brothers
IX r
“It wasn’t easy, as you all
know,” Chicago Teachers Union
President Karen Lewis said after
TEXAS WOMAN’S UNIVERSITY
Armando L. Sanchez, Chicago Tribune/AP
In this Monday photo, Chicago Teachers Union President Ka-
ren Lewis announces that a tentative contract agreement
was reached with Chicago Public Schools at the SEIU Health-
care headquarters in Chicago.
Monday’s late-night agreement,
which now goes to the union’s
House of Delegates and all
28,000 members for a final
vote. Vice President Jesse Shar-
key said Tuesday that he’s “confi-
dent that it’ll pass” because it has
wins for students and for school
workers.
But even as Mayor Rahm
Emanuel, who fought bitterly
with Lewis before and during
the 2012 teachers strike, praised
the union and the Chicago Pub-
lic Schools in a speech in which
he introduced his 2017 budget
proposal, it still isn’t clear how
the financially strapped city will
pay for the four-year deal.
The proposal includes a 2
percent cost-of-living increase
in the third year and 2.5 percent
one in the fourth year.
It doesn’t require current
teachers to pay more toward
their pensions — a change CPS
had been seeking and the union
rejected earlier this year — but
future hires will have to pick up
that additional pension cost.
A key provision is an agree-
ment by the city to divert about
$88 million from a $175 million
surplus of the city’s controversial
special taxing districts — known
as tax increment financing, or
TIF, funds — to the schools.
That figure is less than the $200
million in additional spending
the union had sought.
“Obviously when you take
that TIF surplus, that’s not a sus-
is in contrast with the growth of
mobile phones.
The study is being overseen
by the Malaysian Communica-
tion and Multimedia Commis-
sion and will be used to see how
citizens trust certain technolo-
gies and infrastructures as a na-
tional index.
top chapter and having the best
online student history journal in
the country.
The publication, Ibid, is
managed by more than 40 stu-
dents and features essays on his-
tory. It won the Gerald Nash
Award, the preeminent award
for student history journals na-
tionwide.
Additionally, the chapter
won the Best Chapter Award for
the fifth year in a row, meaning
the club will be featured in a na-
tional publication and collect
$250.
Professor gets grant
for project in Malaysia
Mahesh Raisinghani, a pro-
fessor in the executive MBA pro-
gram, received a Fulbright spe-
cialist grant to complete a pro-
ject in Malaysia this December.
He will lead a digital trust in-
dexing project, where he mea-
sures the amount of trust people
have in digital services offered in
their country, like credit and
debit cards. The inherent dis-
trust of traditional e-commerce
tamable way of funding the
schools,” said Alderman Pat
Dowell, who represents South
Side neighborhoods. “The mon-
ey probably will not available
next year so the [union and the
school district] are going to have
to look for more permanent fi-
nancing, which is probably at
the state level.”
Alderman Patrick O’Connor
agreed with Dowell, but said the
city is in the same position it is in
every year when it tries to secure
state funding. Illinois is locked
in a budget stalemate, meaning
funds that are normally avail-
able have been slow to come or
temporarily cut off.
“Every year we rely on [the
state] to give us a certain
amount of money and every year
there is drama... and we’re nev-
er quite sure whether it is going
to come or not,” said O’Connor,
who is Emanuel’s City Council
floor leader and represents a
West Side district.
One casualty due to the TIF
money diversion, which re-
quired several aldermen to sac-
rifice projects in their wards that
would have been paid for with
those funds, was a $60 million
selective-enrollment
school to be named after Presi-
dent Barack Obama.
Alderman Walter Burnett
said he agreed to sacrifice it in-
definitely; the proposed school
and its name stirred controversy
when Emanuel announced it in
2015 due to its location on the
near North Side — far from
where Obama built his political
career on the South Side.
The tentative agreement also
addresses class sizes in the near-
ly 400,000-student district, as-
signing an assistant to any youn-
ger-grade classes with more
than 32 students.
Parents and others who
dropped off children Tuesday re-
membered the teachers strike of
four years ago and worried that,
somehow, the current agree-
ment would fall through.
History honor society
wins national awards
TWUs chapter of Phi Alpha
Theta, a national history honor
society, won awards for being a
BRIEFLY
IN EDUCATION
Grand Blanc, Mich.
Transgender student
chosen as prince
A transgender student in
Grand Blanc has been chosen as
homecoming prince.
Grand Blanc High School
sophomore Kourt Frame told
Mlive that he decided to cam-
paign for homecoming prince to
empower people to be who they
are and raise awareness about
acceptance. Kourt says he told
people he was transgender in
ninth grade, two years after he
discovered the term.
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