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Thousands of students and teachers staged a strike across Spain on Thursday to protest government austerity measures and a planned new education reforms.

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A high school student in California who caught her gym teacher on video rummaging through student’s belongings, possibly stealing items, took the video to the principal in the hopes he would take action.

A former Essex County, New Jersey teacher of the year has admitted having sex with a 15-year-old boy enrolled in an honors class she taught. Erica DePalo pleaded guilty Tuesday to child endangerment. In return, county prosecutors will recommend she get lifetime parole supervision when she's sentenced in April.

A former teacher in Florida's Broward County who was accused of soliciting massages from students has lost her license to teach in the state.

A teacher is being criticized after having students use markers to draw on classmates who failed reading goals.

An art teacher in Livermore, California, was allegedly found performing a sexual act in a car and trying to attract the attention of passing trick or treaters on Halloween night.

Teachers helped students correct mistakes on standardized tests, prepared them with actual test questions or left instructional posters displayed in the classroom during testing, according to school district reports.

Teachers in the nation's third-largest city will pore over the details of a contract settlement Tuesday as the clock ticks down to an afternoon meeting in which they are expected to vote on ending a seven-day strike that has kept 350,000 students out of class.

The confrontation between Chicago teachers and Mayor Rahm Emanuel escalated on Sunday when their union extended a strike and the mayor said he would go to court to block the walkout, risking more friction within President Barack Obama's political coalition as the November 6 election nears.