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Education Department gives 3 more states waivers
Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced on Monday that three more states would join the ranks of those given permission to ignore parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law in favor of their own school improvement plans. The addition of Alaska, Hawaii and West Virginia brings to 37 the ...
Police incident prompts lockdown at 2 Pa. schools
An elementary school and a vocational school in north-central Pennsylvania were on temporary lockdown as police responded to an off-campus incident. Spring Township police didn't immediately comment, but Bellefonte Area School District Superintendent Cheryl Potteiger said Monday that the two-hour afternoon lockdown at Pleasant Gap Elementary School ended after police ...
Jamie Moyer addresses Immaculata graduates in Pa.
Former Philadelphia Phillies left-hander Jamie Moyer wants to see Immaculata College graduates persevere in their lives and remember to give back to others. Moyer, a member of the Phillies team that won the World Series in 2008, spoke Sunday to the graduating class at the private Catholic university outside Philadelphia. ...
Police search for missing college student from Pa.
Police are searching for a missing University of Rhode Island student who was traveling home to southeastern Pennsylvania last week, but never made it. Investigators say 21-year-old Collegeville resident Matthew Royer was last seen leaving his apartment in Rhode Island on Thursday. State police in Pennsylvania and Rhode Island are ...
Criticism flares around new Pa. graduation tests
It seemed to hit the Capitol like a brick: a sudden groundswell of criticism over a move by Gov. Tom Corbett and the Pennsylvania State Board of Education to toughen academic achievement standards and tie them to graduation tests for the state's roughly 1.7 million public and charter school students. ...
New president for Ohio's largest community college
A new president has been selected for Ohio's largest community college, and he's already familiar with the territory. Trustees of Cuyahoga (keye-uh-HOH'-guh) Community College in Cleveland selected Alex Johnson to succeed Jerry Sue Thornton as president. Johnson led the college's Metropolitan campus from 1993 to 2003. He is currently president ...
Obama's Morehouse visit shines spotlight on HBCUs
When President Barack Obama addresses graduates at Morehouse College on Sunday, he'll also be speaking to the broader community of historically black colleges and universities — a proud corner of higher education that has struggled more than most during the last few years of economic distress. The so-called HBCUs educate ...
Corbett gets cool reception at Pa. graduation
Gov. Tom Corbett got a cool reception when he addressed a central Pennsylvania university's graduating class. The (Harrisburg) Patriot-News (http://bit.ly/19M1nV0 ) says the that when the governor stepped to the microphone Saturday at the Millersville University ceremony, about a dozen students turned their chairs away from the stage. About half ...
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BC-MD--Mid-Atlantic Daybook Mid-Atlantic Daybook Associated Press Mid-Atlantic Daybook for Saturday, May 18. MID-ATLANTIC The daybook is for planning purposes only and is not intended for publication or broadcast. You should verify any event you plan to cover. Please keep the AP in mind when news develops. Contact the Mid-Atlantic bureau ...
SPOTLIGHT: Illinois girls basketball chronicled
Springfield's Alma Uphoff Liebman used a mocking tone to describe early girls basketball regulations in Illinois. In the years before Title IX and before the Illinois High School Association allowed girls to compete on school teams, girls intramural basketball teams were often forced to play an odd style of the ...
PSU student Horn wins Flamminio scholarship
Penn State University student Brittany Horn was awarded the 2013 Ralph Flamminio Memorial Scholarship at the Pennsylvania Associated Press Managing Editors' annual meeting Friday. The award honoring the former editor of The Morning Call of Allentown and Coatesville Record salutes an exemplary Pennsylvania college student who best displays the ideals ...
PSU report reviews women's status at university
Women at Penn State either haven't made progress or have lost ground when it comes to being represented in several key areas, including leadership positions and enrollment, according to report from a university commission. Among notable findings in the report entitled "Status of Women at Penn State, 2001-11," released this ...
Moody's says recent PSU actions are positive
Ratings agency Moody's Investors Service says recent changes to the Pennsylvania State University Board of Trustees are a "credit positive." In a credit outlook report released late Thursday Moody's says "significant changes" were recently made to Penn State's governance structure and oversight practices, and those should strengthen oversight and management. ...
Pa. school board makes no decision on name request
A transgender student in central Pennsylvania is continuing his fight to be announced by his male name at graduation next month. Issak Wolfe and more than 50 supporters wearing stickers saying "His name is Issak" attended Thursday night's Red Lion Area School District board meeting. They brought with them a ...
Students visiting PSU come home with bedbug bites
Several people in a group of 40 chaperones and students visiting Penn State's main campus say they came home with bedbug bites. The school says bedbugs were reported in the Curtin Hall dormitory. Three rooms were treated, and all of the residence hall's rooms are being checked. A university spokeswoman ...
Transgender student resists district's name policy
A transgender student pressed a central Pennsylvania school district on Thursday to reverse its decision to read his female name at next month's graduation ceremony, calling it pointless and "incredibly hurtful." The student uses the name Issak Wolfe, but is enrolled at Red Lion High School in York County as ...
Pa. girl, parents sue over molestation by teacher
A 16-year-old girl and her parents have sued two school districts and two teachers — one of whom is serving four to eight years in prison for having sex with the girl after he was hired to direct a high school musical in a nearby district. Twenty-four-year-old Jeffrey Hahn was ...
Police testing 'powder' found in Pa. school desk
Police in a crime-ridden Pittsburgh suburb are testing packets of white powder found in an unused elementary school desk to determine if the substance is cocaine, heroin or some other kind of drug. Wilkinsburg School Superintendent Archie Perrin says the packets were found Tuesday when fourth-graders were cleaning out a ...
York superintendent resigns, will take job in NY
The superintendent of the York School District in central Pennsylvania has resigned to take a job on Long Island. Superintendent Deborah Wortham announced her resignation Wednesday, after the presentation of a financial recovery plan for the district. Wortham says she's accepted the position of superintendent in the Roosevelt Union Free ...
Penn State defends medical changes after report
Penn State coach Bill O'Brien is fervently disputing suggestions raised in a report that player medical care has been compromised after the team doctor was replaced. Speaking often in an angry tone that might be otherwise reserved for an argument with an official, O'Brien told reporters in a conference call ...
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