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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – Greece’s State High School Teachers’ Federation (OLME) said state schools should not accept private donations because it could bring about the “full commodification of the education sector,” even though the country’s economic crisis has driven many parents to seek outside tutors and private schools to supplement their children’s education.
That decision came after the Magnesia branch of the State High School Teachers’ Association (ELME) in central Greece turned down a reported donation from the Bodossaki Foundation, saying it “rejects the logic of donations (because) it substitutes the state’s responsibility and obligation with regard to the operation of public schools.”
The Bodossaki Foundation was established in 1972 and is one of the most respected privately owned public-benefit organizations in Greece, it claimed on its website.
In its statement, OLME took note however of budget cuts to state education funding that have led to substandard facilities and chronic understaffing but said education is still the province of the state and private donors aren’t welcome.
“This gives private bodies the opportunity to enter state schools,” OLME said, suggesting the money given could come with inherent strings attached and private agendas as well.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza (AP) — An international team of doctors visiting a hospital in central Gaza was prepared for the worst.
ATHENS - The tragedy of the Tempi train collision is a much greater issue than an opportunity for parties to table a motion of censure against the government, but the opposition parties used it anyway "to turn society's pain into a tool to strike at the government and me personally," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday night in parliament.
ATHENS - PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis, speaking at the Hellenic Parliament on Thursday, emphasized that there is "an established belief among the Greek people" that the government "operates as a well-oiled machine of corruption, cover-up, and propaganda.
ATHENS — Greece’s center-right government survived a motion of no-confidence late Thursday that was brought by opposition parties over its handling of the country’s deadliest rail disaster a year ago.
ASTORIA – Greek Minister of the Interior Niki Kerameus offered an informative presentation on postal voting in the upcoming European Union elections for Greek citizens in a well-attended event held at the St.