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  2. Education in Japan - Wikipedia

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    Teachers often major in their respective subjects and more than 79% graduate from a four-year college. Classes are large, with an average of thirty-eight students per class, and each class is assigned a homeroom teacher, doubling as a counselor. Unlike kindergarten students, primary school students have different teachers for different subjects.

  3. New York City school boycott - Wikipedia

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    The New York City school boycott, also referred to as Freedom Day, was a large-scale boycott and protest against segregation in the New York City public school system which took place on February 3, 1964. Students and teachers walked out to highlight the deplorable conditions at public schools in the city, and demonstrators held rallies ...

  4. New York City - Wikipedia

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    The New York City Public Schools system, managed by the New York City Department of Education, is the largest public school system in the United States, serving about 1.1 million students in approximately 1,800 separate primary and secondary schools, including charter schools, as of the 2017–2018 school year. The New York City Charter School ...

  5. Albert Shanker - Wikipedia

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    The New York City teacher's strike of 1968 closed down almost all New York City schools for 36 days. Perhaps Shanker is best known for opposing community-control leaders in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville district of New York City, which led to the 1968 strike after white teachers were dismissed from the school district by the recently appointed ...

  6. Australian Pay and Classification Scales - Wikipedia

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    The Australian Pay and Classification Scales were legal instruments that formed part of the 2006 WorkChoices amendments to Australian labour law. These instruments were abolished when the Fair Work Act 2009 commenced operation in 2010. WorkChoices removed wage rates from federal awards and Notional Agreements Preserving State Awards (NAPSAs).

  7. Ford Foundation - Wikipedia

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    The report was endorsed by the foundation's board of trustees, and they subsequently voted to move the foundation to New York City in 1953. [4] [23] [24] [25] The board of directors decided to diversify the foundation's portfolio and gradually divested itself of its substantial Ford Motor Company stock between 1955 and 1974. [4]

  8. Kindergarten Cop - Wikipedia

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    Kindergarten Cop is a 1990 American action comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and distributed by Universal Pictures. Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as John Kimble, a tough police detective working undercover as a kindergarten teacher to locate the wife and child of drug dealer Cullen Crisp (Richard Tyson), who are living under assumed identities.

  9. Prince George's County Public Schools - Wikipedia

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    Prince George's County Public Schools ( PGCPS) is a public school district that serves Prince George's County, Maryland. During the 2023-2024 academic year, the district enrolls around 133,000 students and operates over 200 schools. [5] PGCPS is the second-largest school district in Maryland, [6] the third-largest district in the Washington ...