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• Casey Meets With Local Leaders

  
  1490 NewsBlog — Authority: 445
  By ANNE HOLLIDAY WESB/WBRR News Director US Senator Bob Casey says he wants rural northwestern Pennsylvania to get the money it needs to spur economic development and job growth. “The worst thing we could do is have a recovery and get out of the hole, and move down the road … and then go back into the ditch ...
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• Cuts from the public school system that everyone

  
  Lucrative Investing — Authority: 137
  Budget cuts in the nation’s public schools means that many states are having to find ways to limit what it spends on public schools in their budgets. I find it ironic in a way because it seems like taxes have increased at the same time that budget cuts for public education is being introduced. However, in places ...
  10 hours ago

• The Education Wars: Some Good News for a Change

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 147
  This is a nice thing for this school for the severely disabled; I wonder why it took so long . I believe, however, eventually this school will be phased out and the kids in these schools put into regular public schools in "life skills" classes. Upon reflection, perhaps the reason it isnt being done now is because ...
  13 hours ago

• chattem, winter solstice 2009, first day of winter, …

  
  WORDPRESS-TEMPLATES-PLUGINS-RSS — Authority: 154
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• Autistic student’s right to service dog upheld

  
  ohmidog! — Authority: 564
  An autistic student’s right to bring his service dog to school was upheld by an Illinois appeals court last week. The appeals court upheld a Monroe County court ruling that permitted Carter Kalbfleisch to bring his autism service dog , Corbin, to school. The Columbia School District had appealed the lower court ...
  20 hours ago

• Loophole lets mentally ill Texas juveniles go free (AP)

  
  Relevant News — Authority: 178
  AP - A 16-year-old former juvenile detainee is accused of stabbing a high school teacher to death with a butcher knife. Another teen was convicted of killing a roofer during a 30-minute robbery spree.
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• Merry Kitzmas!

  
  Louisiana Coalition for Science — Authority: 92
  Four years ago today, December 20, 2005, in the Middle District of Pennsylvania, in the case of Kitzmiller et al. v. Dover Area School District , Judge John E. Jones III ruled that teaching intelligent design (ID) creationism is unconstitutional. In celebration of this anniversary, the Louisiana Coalition for ...
  2 days ago

• Race v. Chicago Board of Education

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 141
  Ron Huberman The Chicago Public Schools Board of Education voted this week to institute a new admissions policy for their magnet and selective enrollment public schools that will use socioeconomic background, not race, as a key factor in deciding student admissions. At the meeting where the vote took place, Chicago ...
  2 days ago

• The Education Wars III: Crapola Rhetoric from WCSD

  
  Random Thoughts from Random Places — Authority: 147
  A member of the corrupt WCSD Board of Trustees (most of the members are not impartial citizens of the county but have connections one way or the other to the school district beyond having children there) brags about the corrupt district which she supposedly oversees : My fellow Trustees and I, together with ...
  2 days ago

• Grammy Museum and Music Institute Sponsor LA Schools

  
  Music Connection — Authority: 440
  Musicians Institute (MI) and the Grammy Museum are sponsoring a series of hands-on interactive classes specially designed for Los Angeles Unified School District’s high school, middle school and elementary school students. The classes are taught by MI instructors and held onsite at the Grammy Museum’s state of the ...
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• 10 Interesting Links From December 18th

  
  Greg In The Desert — Authority: 134
  Children die by dozens as adults snap | KRQE News 13 New Mexico – "This has really been the year for tragedy for children in Albuquerque," Pat Davis, a spokesman for District Attorney Kari Brandenburg, told KRQE News 13. "Its been so extraordinary we dont want to see this happen again." 2011 Ford Mustang: ...
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• Capo Supt. Carter’s Lawsuit Tossed Out

  
  Mission Viejo Dispatch — Authority: 138
     Former CUSD Superintendent Woodrow Carter had his lawsuit dismissed today in Superior Court.  Carter was seeking a buyout for 18 months of the remaining 28 months on his contract at the time he was fired.    Judge Steven Perk found Carter’s contract was not ambiguous and clearly did not provide for ...
  3 days ago

• Another Amazing San Carlos Story: A Local Hero…

  
  The White Oaks Blog — Authority: 121
  With all of the depressing talk about budget cuts and job losses, it’s nice to have positive heart-warming story to report.  Doug Johnson drives the small yellow bus that comes to Brittan Acres each day, and also runs the “pony” intra-district mail delivery, including delivering instructional materials to ...
  3 days ago

• Capistrano Teacher Protests Foreshadow Fullerton Fight

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 537
  All eyes were on the Capistrano Unified School District this week as the CUEA (teachers’ union) deployed armies of its members to protest a 10% pay cut. The union rented school buses to bring in over 1,000 protesters to the board meeting, which was halted at least once due to outbursts from the pro-union crowd.But ...
  3 days ago

• Teacher on leave after taking students to a Hooters Restaurant

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 730
  Phoenix, Dec 18 (THAINDIAN NEWS) An Arizona teacher has come under fire, for taking 40 students to a Hooters restaurant for lunch. Prior to the lunch, the students had performed at the Presidential Inauguration event in Phoenix. After the performance, the choir director Mary Segall wanted to take her students for ...
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• FortBendNow: Sheriff’s office investigating alleged open records violations

  
  Texas Watchdog — Authority: 492
  There’s an interesting dustup in Fort Bend County over alleged violations of the state’s public records and open meetings laws.The district attorney in Fort Bend County has asked for an investigation into possible  violations by Fort Bend ISD. The dispute is related to a multimillion-dollar public science center, ...
  3 days ago

• Dianne Williamson just doesnt get it...

  
  La Salette Journey — Authority: 111
  In a previous post , I mentioned how Massachusetts second grader Jalen Cromwell was forced by the Taunton school district to undergo psychological evaluations for drawing a stick figure of the crucified Jesus with his own name on a placard above the corpus. Now John W. Whitehead, the president of the Rutherford ...
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• "As parents of a beautiful, happy and healthy transgender child attending school in Alameda, our hearts are broken by the thousands of gender-nonconforming children who face violence, verbal and sexual harassment"

  
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  SOUNDBITES — "As parents of a beautiful, happy and healthy transgender child attending school in Alameda, our hearts are broken by the thousands of gender-nonconforming children who face violence, verbal and sexual harassment, increased dropout rates and institutional bias — and who take their own lives at three ...
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• Rattlers place 15 on all-district grid teams

  
  Newstreamz San Marcos — Authority: 149
  The San Marcos High School football team, which finished the 2009 season with a 3-7 record, still placed 15 players on All-District 27-4A teams due to the individual skills of the players and the overall competitiveness of the ball club.
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• Busing cuts, no senior year? Legislators present bleak picture of budget proposals

  
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  MORGAN -- Two state legislators painted a dire financial outlook for school funding at a recent meeting of the Morgan School Board. read more
  4 days ago

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