By Tom Marshall, Times Staff Writer Saturday, June 4, 2011 TAMPA — Officially, contract negotiations between the Hillsborough County school district and teachers union ended nine months ago. But the talking didn’t stop on Aug. 31 when the School Board approved the annual agreement on pay and working conditions. In February, the two sides agreed [...]
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Italian students protest education reform bill
December 23rd, 2010
admin Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer Rome, Italy (AHN) – Students in Italy staged a nationwide demonstration Wednesday to protest the passage of an education reform bill. The demonstrations, staged in several cities including Rome, Naples, Turin, Palermo and Salermo, were generally peaceful. There was one reported clash between students and police in Palermo [...]
New York Times Reports On Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges In Global Health Grant Program
December 22nd, 2010
admin The New York Times examines the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Grand Challenges in Global Health program, which gave a total of $450 million to 43 research projects over five years. “On drawing attention to ways that lives might be saved through scientific advances, I’d give us an A,” Bill Gates, co-founder of the foundation, [...]
VIDEO from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Available on thenewsmarket.com: Melinda Gates Challenges Global Leaders: Create Savings Accounts and Bring Financial Security to the World’s Poorest
November 16th, 2010
admin NEW YORK, Nov. 16, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — See content from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation at: http://www.thenewsmarket.com/Releases/StoryDetailPage.aspx?GUID=e1429ec4-d361-4e91-8e3f-06e1f2663433# Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, today hailed a his View full post on All Stories
French Senate Approves Controverisal Pension Reform Bill
October 24th, 2010
admin Linda Young – AHN News Writer Paris, France (AHN) – The French Senate on Friday approved a controversial pension reform bill by a vote of 177-153. Now it is up to a conference committee of seven senators and seven members of parliament to hammer out differences between the Senate and National Assembly versions of the [...]
New law establishes rules on scholarship promises
October 2nd, 2010
admin Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill that backers say will protect student athletes from verbal promises made about college scholarships that can’t be kept. Read comments View full post on All Stories
The Truth About Grants – Read This Before You Pay A Grant Writer
September 24th, 2010
admin The Truth about Grants Read this before you pay a grant writer I know what you’re thinking and I totally agree with you, there has already been a ton of articles written on this one topic. Here is the reality of grants, the tougher it gets to get a traditional loan form a stiff neck [...]
Grants For Profit – Where’s the Free-For-Profit Business Grant Money?
November 30th, 2009
admin The Problem So the United States economy is struggling. Everyone is trying to figure out what will pull us out of the current recession. In February 2009 U.S. Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), also known as the stimulus bill. Its purpose was to provide a stimulus to the U.S. [...]

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