By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
PHILADELPHIA – Apparently union solidarity ends at the western shore of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Philadelphia teachers claim 3,122 jury duty days in 2010-11 school year
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
PHILADELPHIA – EAGnews.org recently submitted an open records request to the Philadelphia school district, and it yielded a bonanza of juicy details about how the school system is spending taxpayer dollars.
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Philadelphia school employees get personal legal advice at taxpayers’ expense
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia school employees may have heard of “LegalZoom”— the do-it-yourself, Internet-based legal service – but they probably haven’t used it.
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Philadelphia schools cut thousands of teachers but kept staff farmers
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
PHILADELPHIA – Here’s an item from the “strange but true” file: One of the nation’s largest urban school systems, the School District of Philadelphia, has three farmers on its payroll.
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Teachers union rides first class on Philadelphia schools’ gravy train
By Kyle Olson
EAGnews.org
PHILADELPHIA – Every pay period, the Philadelphia school district puts $155 per union member into a special fund that helps educators pay their personal legal bills, which includes everything from routine personal legal advice to estate planning.
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