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Teachers settle contract dispute

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Teachers in Hemet have reached a tentative contract agreement with their school district. The contract, which must be ratified by the Hemet Teachers Association, calls for an eight percent salary increase and puts a cap on class sizes, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise. The agreement, which was announced …

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Select junior colleges to offer four-year degrees

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Fifteen community colleges in California, including one in the Inland Empire, will soon begin offering four-year degrees. The state’s Community College Board of Governors selected the colleges, each of which will offer a degree not currently offered by the California State or University of California systems, according to multiple reports. …

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Inland region has a new largest school district

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One hundred and twenty eight years after it started, the Corona-Norco Unified School District can for the first time boast of the largest enrollment of any district in the Inland Empire. For years the district has trailed the San Bernardino City Unified District, but no longer: Corona Norco has 53,655 …

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UCR a popular destination

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Applications for admission to UC Riverside are up nearly 10 percent compared with last year, similar to an increase that is happening across the UC system. Riverside’s 9.8 percent increase was ahead of the 5.8 percent average increase at the rest of the UC campuses, with only UC Merced and …

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UCR a popular destination

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Applications for admission to UC Riverside are up nearly 10 percent compared with last year, similar to an increase that is happening across the UC system. Riverside’s 9.8 percent increase was ahead of the 5.8 percent average increase at the rest of the UC campuses, with only UC Merced and …

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Cal State University campuses get record number of applicants

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More than 790,000 applications have been submitted to California State University schools for the fall 2015 semester. That’s the most applications ever received by the 23-campus system, and nearly 30,000 more than were received one year ago, according to a statement posted last Thursday on the system’s website. All of …

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