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Tech firms bumping up perks to recruit, retain
Apple's ring-shaped, gleaming "Spaceship Headquarters" will include a world class auditorium and an orchard for engineers to wander. Google's new Bay View campus will feature walkways angled to force accidental encounters. Facebook, while putting final touches on a Disney-inspired campus including a Main Street with a B-B-Q shack, sushi house ...
Teachers union now backs bill to ease firing
California's largest teachers union is backing a measure that would make it easier to discipline and fire teachers accused of misconduct after successfully fighting a similar proposal last year. Lawmakers this week will take up AB375 by Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan, D-Alamo, which would speed up the appeals process after a ...
Ex-Aragon High water polo coach gets 2 years for sexually assaulting student
A two-year prison sentence for a former Aragon High School water polo coach convicted of sexually assaulting one of the girls on his team was a salient example of what happens when a young adult coach is not trained nor supervised around children, an attorney for the victim said Wednesday. ...
Harvard student caught in Quiz Bowl cheating scandal
The cheating scandal comes just off the tail of Harvard's upset versus number three-seeded New Mexico's basketball team in the NCAA tournament.
San Jose State student reported missing found safe
The family of a San Jose State University student reported missing after he was last seen in a remote park in the Santa Cruz Mountains says he has been found safe. KTVU-TV says the family of Gabriel Lorette-Smith called officials to report that he was found near the tiny community ...
Defiant teen gets life sentences in Ohio shooting
Wearing a T-shirt with "killer" scrawled across it, a teenager cursed and gestured obscenely as he was given three life sentences Tuesday for shooting to death three students in an Ohio high school cafeteria. T.J. Lane, 18, had pleaded guilty last month to shooting at students in February 2012 at ...
Ohio teens guilty of rape, face year-plus in jail
Two members of the high school football team that is the pride of Steubenville were found guilty Sunday of raping a drunken 16-year-old girl in a case that bitterly divided the Rust Belt city and led to accusations of a cover-up to protect the community's athletes. Steubenville High School students ...
Doctors take stance against ADHD as 'study drug'
The American Academy of Neurology warns against a trend of 'neuroenhancement.'
Security beefed up at East Bay high after threat discovered
Police were beefing up patrols at Foothill High School in Pleasanton Wednesday after threatening graffiti was found scrawled in a girls' bathroom stall. The message -- in which someone threatened a campus shooting on Thursday -- was discovered on the wall of the bathroom stall on Tuesday, Pleasanton Unified School ...
106-year-old receives high school diploma
A 106-year-old receives a high school diploma. You are never too old to be a student.A 106 year old man has just received his high school diploma. Fred Butler dropped out of school after eighth grade to work full time at a printing shop in order to help support his ...
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