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Parents, activists rip school board

EDUCATION / NEWS Fri Nov 9, 2007 @ 2:24pm neoform
Chicago Tribune -- Anti-war and free-speech advocates joined angry parents and students in their battle with Berwyn school district officials who may expel a group of students who took part in an Iraq war protest at a school last week. The lunchtime protest Nov. 1 in the.. Read More
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Claims filed over 'enemies list'

EDUCATION / NEWS Fri Aug 10, 2007 @ 1:20pm neoform
Los Angeles Times -- Parents and students named on "enemies lists" created by Capistrano Unified School District's former superintendent have filed claims seeking $1 million each. Trustee Anna Bryson confirmed Wednesday night that the district had received claims from at l.. Read More
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2,000 Students May Have to Repeat Grade in Connecticut

EDUCATION / NEWS Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 10:52pm neoform
FOX News -- Every school district has those few students who lag behind a grade or two, but 2,000 of them? That’s approximately the number of students that might have to repeat their current grade in Waterbury, Conn., under the city’s newly enforced absenteeis.. Read More
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Advocacy groups sue to halt Bible classes in Texas schools

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EDUCATION / NEWS Wed May 16, 2007 @ 10:40pm neoform
CNN -- Two advocacy groups filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against a West Texas school district on behalf of eight parents who say a Bible course violates their religious liberty. The American Civil Liberties Union and People for the American Way Foundation.. Read More
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San Francisco teachers reach contract agreement

EDUCATION / NEWS Tue Aug 28, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform
SF Gate -- Representatives of the Francisco Unified School District and leaders of the teachers union reached a tentative agreement over a new labor contract after a 17-hour negotiating session over the weekend. The deal ends months of often contentious talks bet.. Read More
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Cops Investigate Teacher for Alleged Affair With 7th Grader

EDUCATION / NEWS Tue Jun 19, 2007 @ 8:26am neoform
FOX News -- A female substitute teacher who taught in a Wisconsin school district has been fired and is under investigation for an alleged sexual relationship with her daughter's 13-year-old boyfriend, FOXNews.com has learned. The Pierce County Sheriff’s Departm.. Read More
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L.A. Unified: the school bully

EDUCATION / OPINION Fri Jun 8, 2007 @ 12:35am neoform
Los Angeles Times -- IAM ONE OF THE LEADERS of the teacher revolt at Locke High School. Locke was, for many years, the ashcan of the Los Angeles Unified School District, mismanaged in every way. Things have improved here, but not enough, and efforts to do more have been frust.. Read More
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Perris school officials get grilling from state

EDUCATION / NEWS Tue May 29, 2007 @ 10:40am neoform
Los Angeles Times -- Members of the panel that parcels out state funds for school construction grilled top officials of a Perris school district Wednesday about its mounting debt and questionable spending decisions, but delayed for a month a decision that could deliver a majo.. Read More
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School district says fake gun attack was a prank

EDUCATION / NEWS Wed May 16, 2007 @ 10:40pm neoform
CNN -- A teacher and assistant principal who frightened sixth-grade students on a class trip by telling them a gunman was on the loose were staging a prank, a spokeswoman for the schools said. The school district's statement reversed earlier statements by the.. Read More
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School district investigates porn bill

EDUCATION / NEWS Sun Apr 8, 2007 @ 10:43am neoform
Yahoo News -- School district officials are trying to identify who watched $250 worth of pay-per-view pornographic movies using a school cable television box, officials said. Someone after business hours used one of the five cable boxes in the Board of Education bui.. Read More
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O.C. school officer held in porn probe

EDUCATION / NEWS Fri Mar 23, 2007 @ 12:56pm neoform
Los Angeles Times -- A police sergeant with the Santa Ana Unified School District was arrested Friday in a child pornography investigation, authorities said. Kendall Scott Poole, 49, was taken into custody about 9:30 a.m. at his Irvine home in the 4600 block of Roxbury Dri.. Read More
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Capistrano Unified picks Smith as superintendent

EDUCATION / NEWS Fri Mar 23, 2007 @ 12:56pm neoform
Los Angeles Times -- Dennis M. Smith was named superintendent of the Capistrano Unified School District on Monday. Smith, currently chief of the Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, has also led districts in Irvine, Laguna Beach, San Diego County and Orlando, Fla.. Read More
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Schools vie for aid, but may get lemons

EDUCATION / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 11:22am neoform
Los Angeles Times -- Santee High in South Los Angeles ranks at the very bottom of high schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District, but it won't get a penny of the most substantial infusion of new state funding in years for low-achieving schools. Nearby Belmont High.. Read More
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No accounting for L.A. Unified's payroll fiasco

EDUCATION / NEWS Wed Mar 21, 2007 @ 11:22am neoform
Los Angeles Times -- Six weeks ago the Los Angeles Unified School District switched on a $95-million computerized system for paying the district's 48,000 teachers and other employees. The soft sproing heard from Pacoima to Palms was the sound of Southern California coming ung.. Read More
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Student Sues District Over Sexual Discrimination

EDUCATION / NEWS Wed Dec 13, 2006 @ 9:50am mrmdc
CBS News -- A lawyer for a gay, former Santiago High student who sued the Garden Grove Unified School District, alleging her principal "outed" her, asked a judge Tuesday for as much as $1.3 million in damages... Read More
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