CHICAGO (Reuters) – Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and unionized teachers argued publicly on Tuesday over how to improve struggling inner-city schools as negotiations remained deadlocked on the second day of a strike that has closed the nation’s third-largest school district.

The two sides could not even agree on how far apart they were in the bitter negotiations over a new contract for some 29,000 teachers and support staff who went on strike for the first time in a quarter century.

CHICAGO, Sept 11 (Reuters) – Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and
unionized teachers argued publicly on Tuesday over how to
improve struggling inner-city schools as negotiations remained
deadlocked on the second day of a strike that has closed the
nation’s third-largest school district.

The two sides could not even agree on how far apart they
were in the bitter negotiations over a new contract for some
29,000 teachers and support staff.

CHICAGO, Sept 10 (Reuters) – Thousands of public school
teachers marched in downtown Chicago on Monday as the first
strike in a quarter century showed no signs of ending soon in a
dispute over reforms sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and endorsed
by President Barack Obama’s administration.

Some 29,000 teachers and support staff in the nation’s
third-largest school system were involved, leaving parents of
350,000 students between kindergarten and high school age to
find alternative supervision.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Thousands of public school teachers marched in downtown Chicago on Monday and parents scrambled for child care during the first teachers’ strike in a quarter century over reforms sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and endorsed by President Barack Obama’s administration.

Some 29,000 teachers and support staff in the nation’s third-largest school system were involved, leaving parents of 350,000 students between kindergarten and high school age to find alternative supervision.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Thousands of public school teachers marched in downtown Chicago on Monday and parents scrambled for child care during the first teachers’ strike in a quarter century over reforms sought by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and endorsed by President Barack Obama’s administration.

Some 29,000 teachers and support staff in the nation’s third-largest school system were involved, leaving parents of 350,000 students between kindergarten and high school age to find alternative supervision.

CHICAGO, July 19 (Reuters) – Silver SpongeBob SquarePants
coins minted by a private company in New Zealand were among the
assets seized by FBI agents from Peregrine Financial Group after
its chief confessed to nearly 20 years of fraud last week.

Ira Bodenstein, the trustee in Peregrine’s bankruptcy case
in Chicago, said the coins were in a vault at the firm’s Cedar
Falls, Iowa, headquarters. The value of the takings was not
immediately clear.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Silver SpongeBob SquarePants coins minted by a private company in New Zealand were among assets seized by FBI agents from Peregrine Financial Group after its chief confessed to nearly 20 years of fraud last week.

Ira Bodenstein, the trustee in Peregrine’s bankruptcy case in Chicago, said the coins were in a vault at the firm’s Cedar Falls, Iowa, headquarters. The value of the takings was not immediately clear.

WICHITA, Kansas (Reuters) – Fiscal conservatives in Kansas have turned their state into a laboratory to test reforms similar to the “Ryan plan” for massive tax cuts at the national level — and the result has been a Republican civil war.

Backers of recent state tax cuts argue they will create jobs and boost the economy to partially offset lost revenue, with budget cuts solving the remaining shortfall. The tax cuts go into effect in January, and the Kansas Legislative Research Department calculates the lost revenue will amount to the equivalent of 36 percent of the state budget within five years.

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – U.S. futures industry investigators are looking into why Iowa-based collapsed brokerage PFGBest used a tiny accounting firm that appears to be operating from inside a suburban Chicago home to audit its books, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Experts said the use of such an auditor should have been a red flag to regulators of a futures brokerage with more than $500 million in assets and several hundred employees across the United States as well as in Shanghai and Canada.

WASHINGTON/CHICAGO, July 11 (Reuters) – U.S. futures
industry investigators are looking into why Iowa-based collapsed
brokerage PFGBest used a tiny accounting firm that appears to be
operating from inside a suburban Chicago home to audit its
books, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Experts said the use of such an auditor should have been a
red flag to regulators of a futures brokerage with more than
$500 million in assets and several hundred employees across the
United States as well as in Shanghai and Canada.