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Hawaii teachers won't have to provide these to keep their jobs. (image via Wikimedia)
Hawaii teachers won't have to provide these to keep their jobs. (image via Wikimedia)

Hawaii Teachers Defeat Random Drug Testing

The Hawaii teachers' union has finally, definitively fended off state demands that it accept random suspicionless drug testing of teachers.
No mandatory random drug tests for Illini Bluff teachers, but they have to pass one drug test first. (Image: ISBD 327)
No mandatory random drug tests for Illini Bluff teachers, but they have to pass one drug test first. (Image: ISBD 327)

llinois School District Teachers Settle Drug Testing Strike

Illini Bluff school teachers managed to fend off random drug testing for themselves, if not their successors, but still submitted to one drug test to get back to work.
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Few Florida Welfare Applicants Fail Drug Tests So Far

Florida Gov. Rick Scott claimed he could save the state money by making welfare applicants and recipients pass drug tests. He assumed they were a bunch of addicts, but early results are proving him wrong.
No school in Glaston, Illinois, this week. Teachers struck rather than submit to random drug tests. (Image: IBSD 327)
No school in Glaston, Illinois, this week. Teachers struck rather than submit to random drug tests. (Image: IBSD 327)

IL School District Teachers Strike Over Drug Testing

An Illinois school board demands that teachers submit to mandatory random drug testing even as it concedes there is no need for it. As a result, instead of teachers welcoming students to school this week, they're hitting the picket line.
Hawaii teachers won't have to provide these to keep their jobs. (image via wikimedia.org)
Hawaii teachers won't have to provide these to keep their jobs. (image via wikimedia.org)

Hawaii Teachers Fend Off Random Drug Testing

After more than three years of controversy and challenges, the state of Hawaii has given up on trying to impose random, suspicionless drug testing on teachers.