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France Has No Money for Teachers, Plenty for Riot Police

New National Curriculum Replaces Algebra With Police Statistics and Economics With the Cost of Tear Gas PARIS, FRANCE | France’s government struggles to staff ordinary lessons but can find substantial police resources when students protest the shortage. More than a quarter of a million people rallied nationwide on one Tuesday, according to government figures cited by the Associated Press, and classes were totally or partly suspended at 891 schools that…