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Frustrated teachers and administrators are being lured by independent schools with the promise of more support and freedom. Amid the continuing growth of charter schools in Los Angeles, hundreds of teachers and administrators have left the city's school system to take jobs at the independently run campuses. In the latest wave of departures, dozens of frustrated Los Angeles Unified School District staffers have been courted away by Green Dot Public Schools — one of the city's leading charter operators. Others who are choosing to leave the district for Green Dot or other charters echo Funes' concerns. Working within the nation's...

NEA Delegates Accept Resolution Endorsing Same-Sex 'Marriage' (AgapePress) - The National Education Association (NEA) has voted overwhelmingly to endorse legal civil unions and same-sex "marriages." The president of the Alabama Education Association had asked that the resolution supporting legal homosexual unions be referred back to the Resolutions Committee. The NEA Resolutions Committee earlier had deleted a controversial amendment to its "Diversity" policy (known as B-8), which would have comprehensively endorsed same-sex marriage. Consequently, the Alabama delegate's request would have left the union without a homosexual marriage resolution for the upcoming school year. But NEA delegates voted not to refer the...