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Chicago Tribune
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A Wisconsin teacher who posted an anonymous comment online sarcastically praising the Columbine High School gunmen won't face criminal charges, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Washington County District Attorney Todd Martens said the comme..
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SF Gate
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A six-year-old girl was grazed by a stray bullet as she stood on the playground at Dover Elementary School in San Pablo Wednesday afternoon, authorities said.
The victim, a first grader at the school, suffered only a superficial wound to her abdomen, p..
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Chicago Tribune
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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..
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CNN
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A matron at Oprah Winfrey's school for girls in South Africa was formally charged Monday with 13 counts of abusing and assaulting students at the school. Dressed in a black and white football shirt, the woman, Tiny Virginia Mokobo, 27, pleaded not guilty..
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SF Gate
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Gunfire erupted during halftime at a middle school football game on Wednesday afternoon, wounding two teenagers and two adults, police said.
A 16-year-old boy was shot in the neck, Detective Sgt. Brent Vanderhaar said. The three others were treated and..
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MSNBC
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A New Jersey second-grader's drawing of a stick figure shooting a gun has earned him a one-day school suspension.
Seven-year-old Kyle Walker's mom told an The Press newspaper of Atlantic City that her son was suspended for violating the district's zero..
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SF Gate
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Pupils at a city middle school will be able to get birth control pills and patches at their student health center after the local school board approved the proposal Wednesday evening.
The plan, offered by city health officials, makes King Middle School..
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MSNBC
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A high school student who was hospitalized for more than a week with an antibiotic-resistant staph infection has died, and officials shut down 21 schools for cleaning to keep the illness from spreading.
Ashton Bonds, 17, a senior at Staunton River High..
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MSNBC
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Suspect had threatened other students
Coon, who was white, stood out in the predominantly black school for dressing in a goth style, wearing a black trench coat, black boots, a dog collar and chains, she said.
Henderson, who is black, she said she d..
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www.madison.com
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The No Child Left Behind Act is up for reauthorization this month. There has been much necessary criticism and commentary about its unfunded mandates, forced standardized testing, and takeover threats to struggling public school systems.
But another cr..
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CBS News
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Schools just say no to bullying and fighting, but hugging? CBS 2 West Suburban Bureau Chief Mike Puccinelli reports that a local middle school wants the embracing to stop.
"Last year we would see maybe as many as 10 students on one side (of the hallway..
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Denver Post
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About 50 Boulder High School students walked out of class Thursday to protest the daily reading of the Pledge of Allegiance and recited their own version, omitting "one nation, under God."
The students say the phrase violates the constitutional separat..
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www.nbc17.com
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On the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, students at one high school were not allowed to wear clothes with an American flag.
Under a new school rule, students at Hobbton High School are not allowed to wear items with flags, from any country,..
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Los Angeles Times
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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..
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www.palmbeachpost.com
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Eighty books in high school library stacks are corrupting students with tales of abortion, homosexuality and atheism. That's according to a West Palm Beach mother who has appealed to the school board to remove the books from the shelves of Dreyfoos and Ro..
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New York Times
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When Jon D. Miller looks out across America, which he can almost do from his 18th-floor office at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago, he sees a landscape of haves and have-nots - in terms not of money, but of knowledge.
Dr. Miller, 63,..
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Washington Post
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The nation's schools, which have become increasingly segregated in recent decades, are likely to become even more racially divided as a result of this week's Supreme Court decision curtailing the use of race in school integration plans, attorneys and educ..
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Washington Post
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Fairfax County middle school student Hal Beaulieu hopped up from his lunch table one day a few months ago, sat next to his girlfriend and slipped his arm around her shoulder. That landed him a trip to the school office.
Among his crimes: hugging.
Al..
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FOX News
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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..
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FOX News
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A utility truck's elevated bucket collapsed during a school demonstration, killing a utility company employee and injuring a teacher as about 600 children watched, authorities said.
The pair had been lifted 20 to 30 feet in the air Thursday when the bo..
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