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All Things Not Created Equal in Teacher Layoffs
A Los Angeles teachers-union president responds to parents, angry about budget cuts and union security rules. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, recent events have increased alarm that a country with nuclear weapons is vulnerable to a Taliban-style Islamist revolution. We how worried Pakistanis and American experts really are.
By Warren Olney • • 1h 0m ListenA Los Angeles teachers-union president responds to parents, angry about budget cuts and union security rules. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, recent events have increased alarm that a country with nuclear weapons is vulnerable to a Taliban-style Islamist revolution. We how worried Pakistanis and American experts really are.
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2 storiesIs Pakistan Ripe for an Islamic Revolution?
In Pakistan's Swat Valley on Sunday, the militant Islamist leader Sufi Mohammed bluntly defied the country's secular government and its system of laws.
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LA Unified has sent pink slips to thousands of teachers. Individual schools will receive a total of $270 million in federal stimulus money to buy back jobs as they see fit. But not every school will get the same amount of money.
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