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SF Gate
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A former teacher serving house arrest for having sex with a 14-year-old student was arrested on charges of violating her probation, state records show.
According to a Department of Corrections report, Debra Lafave discussed her personal life and other..
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FOX News
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A state House committee took no action on a bill to require school districts to offer an elective high school-level courses on the Old and New Testaments and use Bibles as text books.
The House Public Education Committee considered the bill at a hearin..
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Los Angeles Times
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Superior Elementary in Chatsworth, as its name implies, is anything but deficient, with a state ranking that far surpasses the state's measure of success.
But under new state rules, the school could go from A+ to F in a hurry. The regulations require s..
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Yahoo News
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Georgia is poised to introduce two literature classes on the Bible in public schools next year, a move some critics say would make the state the first to take an explicit stance endorsing — and funding — biblical teachings.
The Bible already is inc..
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CNN
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An Australian state has banned the online video Web site YouTube from government schools in a crackdown on cyber-bullying, a minister said Thursday.
Victoria, Australia's second most populous state, banned the popular video-sharing site from its 1,600..
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MSNBC
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The Kansas state Board of Education on Tuesday repealed science guidelines questioning evolution that had made the state an object of ridicule. The new guidelines reflect mainstream scientific views of evolution and represent a political defeat for adv..
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SF Gate
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About 1,500 college students rallied at state Capitol this morning to protest $1 billion in budget cuts that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is proposing for California's three college systems in the coming fiscal year.
Students from many UC, state universi..
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BBC News
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US police are hunting a gunman after two students were shot at Delaware State University, officials say.
A female student is in a serious condition and a male student is in a stable condition after the shooting at 0054 (1654 GMT), the university said...
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USA Today
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The statewide panel charged with investigating the mass shooting at Virginia Tech sharply criticized the university for not quickly and clearly notifying students and staff after police responded to a double homicide in a campus dorm and for failing to re..
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USA Today
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A new public school teacher in North Dakota works for a year on probation before getting job security. For a teacher in Missouri, it's five years.
It's just one example of how policies affecting the teaching profession vary from state to state, accordi..
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CNN
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State lawmakers are adequately funding public schools, the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday in ending a long-running lawsuit.
The court cited the Legislature's additional spending in this year's session, including a $122 million increase in per-st..
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Los Angeles Times
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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..
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New York Times
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The National Association of State Boards of Education will elect officers in July, and for one office, president-elect, there is only one candidate: a member of the Kansas school board who supported its efforts against the teaching of evolution.
Scient..
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Los Angeles Times
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The Lone Star State could become the first in the nation to require all public high schools to offer an elective course on the Bible.
Hearings continued in the Legislature last week on a bill that calls for school districts in Texas to offer a class on..
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Los Angeles Times
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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..
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Denver Post
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Alejandro Rivera, a Sheridan High junior, is unsure about his future: Study law at Rice University or open his own auto repair garage in Las Vegas?
Like most high school students, his future is a blank slate. However, the educational opportunities avai..
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Denver Post
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Since the elections in November of a new governor and many new state legislators, much has been said about the nearly unprecedented opportunities for change in Colorado. But for Colorado's students, a more recent development may mark a change with even mo..
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SF Gate
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California's 626,000 public university students got clobbered Wednesday with their fifth tuition hike in six years as the governing boards of both the University of California and the California State University agreed to raise the price of attendance dra..
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Associated Press
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Florida high school students will be able to choose from 440 approved majors ranging from assistant landscape technician to global leadership under a new law designed to improve the state's dismal graduation rate, education officials announced Monday...
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