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Ouachita school board looks at sabbaticals
The Ouachita Parish School Board will be $1 million closer to the total amount it would like to reduce from its 2012-13 fiscal year budget if members approve the finance committee's most recent recommendation. The News-Star reports (http://tnsne.ws/L1k4v5 ) the board will consider Thursday whether to suspend teacher sabbaticals for ...
Central Texas ed board hopefuls set for primary
A Central Texas Republican primary contest for the State Board of Education is shaping up to become one of the races that could define the board for years to come. Each of the 15 seats on the State Board of Education is on the ballot this year, but only seven ...
ACLU : W.Va. counties' single-sex classes illegal
The American Civil Liberties Union has asked three county school systems in West Virginia to stop placing students in single-gender classes. Media outlets report that the ACLU sent letters Monday to school officials in Cabell, Kanawha and Wood counties, saying single-gender classes violate numerous provisions of federal law. The organization ...
NC lawmakers mull how much schools should pay back
Some House Republicans would like to slash by more than half the amount North Carolina public school districts will have to return to the state next year. But GOP lawmakers aren't sure there's enough money elsewhere in state government to do that. The House education budget subcommittee met Tuesday to ...
Pa. school groups' survey sees grimmer finances
A survey of more than half of Pennsylvania's school districts shows more expect their finances to worsen next year even as they cut instructional programs and personnel in numbers unheard of since the Great Depression, according to the two public school advocacy groups that released it Tuesday. The Pennsylvania Association ...
Quebec students mark 100 days of protests
Thousands of students are expected to turn out in the streets of Montreal to mark 100 days since the movement against higher tuition fees began. The protest comes less than a week after Quebec's provincial government passed emergency legislation to put an ended to Canada's most sustained student demonstrations. Student ...
Ex-LA teacher charged with molesting 13 children
A former Los Angeles elementary school teacher has now been charged with sexually abusing 13 children. Paul Chapel was charged last fall with continuous sexual abuse of three girls and a boy. The Los Angeles Daily News (http://bit.ly/JP3Jtf ) says a revised criminal complaint filed last week accuses him of ...
1,000 tests for tuberculosis planned at school
A suspected case of tuberculosis at a Terre Haute school has health officials preparing to test up to 1,000 students and school employees for the disease. The parents of Woodrow Wilson Middle School students were notified by phone calls Monday about the illness, but Vigo County health officials wouldn't say ...
Ill. lawmakers vote to abolish tuition waiver perk
After years of bad publicity over cronyism and clout, the Illinois Legislature has voted to end a longstanding program that allowed each lawmaker to hand out taxpayer-funded college tuition waivers to students. The 79-32 vote Monday was the second overwhelming tally in the state House in two months. The latest ...
UNH receives $1.8M grant to help Nashua schools
The University of New Hampshire has received a $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to help teachers in Nashua schools assist English-learning students. The grant comes from the Department's Office of English Acquisition to increase the achievement of English learners in fields such as math and science. ...
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