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Progress with some labor groups The school board on Tuesday approved four labor contracts with some of the district’s smaller unions — as negotiations continue with the teachers union and service workers that together represent more than 60,000 employees.—
Howard Blume,
Los Angeles Times,
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Critics include the Youth Peace & Justice Foundation, a non-profit formerly known as the Uvalde Foundation for Kids, which was formed in 2022 following the mass shooting of 19 children and two teachers a Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.—
Laura Bauer,
Kansas City Star,
11 Mar. 2026
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969) Smith won her first Academy Award for Best Actress for this curious, eccentric role as a 1930s schoolmistress who takes four young girls under her wing — for better and for worse.—
Christina Newland,
Vulture,
2 Oct. 2024
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Four years later came her Oscar-winning portrayal of an idiosyncratic English schoolmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.—
Duane Byrge,
The Hollywood Reporter,
27 Sep. 2024
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The student pilot was the only occupant of the aircraft at the time, according to the police department, with an instructor observing from the ground.—
Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
4 Mar. 2026
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Iles has been a regular member of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra since 2014 and taught as a faculty trombone and jazz instructor at several universities, according to his bio.—
Elizabeth Marie Himchak,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
4 Mar. 2026
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Fate is a harsh mistress, David.—
David Frum,
The Atlantic,
4 Mar. 2026
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The loss of cash puts a target on the back of that married politician’s mistress (Sasha Calle).—
Randy Myers,
Mercury News,
4 Mar. 2026
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Camila jokingly called the device Tronchatoro, or Trunchbull, after the sadistic school headmistress in Roald Dahl's Matilda.—
Brian Bennett,
Time,
13 Jan. 2026
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In Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Green plays Miss Peregrine, the headmistress of a hidden school that protects children with unusual abilities.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2025
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This isn’t the only AI tool from Grammarly that will pose as a real pedagogue.—
Frank Landymore,
Futurism,
4 Mar. 2026
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Carroll balances it all as a full-time pedagogue.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Jan. 2026
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His father, Robert, was a Cambridge graduate and a schoolmaster who died in 1879, leaving a modest estate, of which Henry, the eldest of eight children, was an executor.—
Ben Yagoda,
New Yorker,
22 Sep. 2025
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English schoolmaster Henry Watson Fowler (1858-1933) and his brother, the writer Francis George Fowler (1871-1918), devoted their lives to encouraging us to write more clearly and directly.—
Chris John Amorosino,
Hartford Courant,
26 Apr. 2025
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Gunzburger worked as a schoolteacher in Detroit before relocating to South Florida with her family in 1967, settling permanently in Hollywood the following year.—
Megan Vaz,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Mar. 2026
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For now, Buttigieg has chosen to wait out the tempests in Traverse City, the hometown of his husband, Chasten, a former schoolteacher.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
3 Mar. 2026
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“Instructress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/instructress. Accessed 12 Mar. 2026.
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