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As students prepare to begin another school year, their teachers are hopping mad. They're facing layoffs and deep budget cuts and many say they're tired of being blamed unfairly for just about everything that's wrong in public education.

A federal appeals court has vacated an earlier opinion that Chicago Public Schools improperly fired nearly 750 tenured teachers last summer.The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals says it will rehear argument in the case.The court ruled in March the fired teachers were entitled to a recall procedure and sh

Illinois Gov.