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2 hrs ago | The Campbell Reporter

Diabetes in California schools: State's high court to hear legal battle over insulin shots

From elementary school to high school, she has been able to count on a teacher, administrator or someone else to help her son Jonathan Mahmoud with his insulin shots when no school nurse was available -- the norm in California's budget-battered education system, where there's only one nurse for every 2,200 students.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Insulin (generic), Humulin, Novolin, Diabetes, Health, Nursing, Albany, CA

6 hrs ago | WIFR

Quinn Signs Moratorium on Online Charter Schools

Gov. Pat Quinn on Friday signed legislation placing a one-year moratorium on any new online charter schools in Illinois districts outside of Chicago.

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Related Topix: Pat Quinn, US Governors

10 hrs ago | KRMG-AM Tulsa

Actor Tyler Perry donates $100K to Ohio schools

Filmmaker and actor Tyler Perry has surprised middle school students in Ohio by showing up at a musical concert and donating $100,000 to help student athletes in the city's South-Western schools.

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Fri May 24, 2013

WGAL-TV Lancaster

Newtown school district to get $1.3 million

The Newtown, Connecticut, public school district will receive a $1.3 million endowment to help the community recover from the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced Friday in Hartford.

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Related Topix: Newtown, CT, Autos

WIFR

Video Shows Student-School Employee Altercation

Chicago Public Schools officials have suspended an employee of a high school on the city's South Side after seeing a video that appears to show the employee shoving a 16-year-old student down a flight of stairs.

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Boston Herald

Principal recounts storm hitting Okla. school

MOORE, Okla. - Teachers and students at Plaza Towers Elementary School hunkered down against the storm just as they had been taught in countless tornado drills, their principal said Friday, recounting how she walked the halls until the twister was on the doorstep, then announced on the intercom, "It's here." In a pause-filled recollection that left ... (more)

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Related Topix: Moore, OK, Kids, Family, Opinion

News9 Oklahoma City

Briarwood Elementary Teachers Return To Tornado-Ravaged School

Teachers at Briarwood rode out the storm in the hallways, bathrooms, and closets, and had not seen the destruction since pulling children out of the rubble.

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The York Daily Record

C. Pa. official: Students safe after school threat

A central Pennsylvania school official says students are safe but classes are dismissing early as a precaution following a threat to an elementary school.

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Northern Michigan News

Michigan panel OKs 3 pct. raise for K-12 schools

Michigan's public schools would get about 3 percent more and it's community colleges and universities about 2 percent more in overall funding next fiscal year under measures nearing final approval in the Legislature.

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Related Topix: Michigan, Michigan Government

Star-Telegram.com

Wheelchair lift out of Wis. promises more access

An elementary school principal has inspired the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create a new wheelchair lift that could help make more places wheelchair accessible.

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Related Topix: University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin Government, Wisconsin, Inventions, Science / Technology

Thu May 23, 2013

Ohio.com

Ohio school board considers creationism curriculum

SPRINGBORO, OHIO: A civil rights group is asking a southwest Ohio school district to abandon proposed policies that teach creationism in the classroom.

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Related Topix: Springboro, OH, ACLU

The Virginian-Pilot

Students in Va. build disorientation chair for NASA

High school students in Virginia have finished building NASA a spinning chair that astronauts in Texas will use to practice being disoriented.

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Related Topix: Virginia, Virginia Government

Burlington Times News

Senate budget would end intern program

Dozens of college state government interns would be sent home this summer and a long-running teen mock legislative program would be shuttered in the Senate budget approved this week.

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Related Topix: Healthcare Law, Law

SFGate

Texas Senate OKs expanding virtual course network

The Senate has approved a proposal to expand the state's network of virtual school courses online and allow it to include more private courses.

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Inside Bay Area

Union City third-grade teacher placed on unpaid leave after molestation charges

A third-grade teacher who faces dozens of child molestation charges for allegedly kissing and fondling female students has been placed on unpaid leave.

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Related Topix: Union City, CA, Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens

KAKE

50 Middle And High School Children Injured In Multi-Bus Crash In Indiana

Northern Indiana authorities say about 50 middle and high school students were injured and a bus driver was seriously hurt in a chain-reaction crash involving four school buses.

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Related Topix: Kosciusko County, IN

Wed May 22, 2013

CBS Local

US: District Didn't Properly Probe Sex Assault Claims

A school district failed to properly investigate allegations by two students that they were sexually assaulted at their Grand Rapids-area high school, the U.S. Department of Education said.

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Related Topix: Grand Rapids, MI, Forest Hills, MI

KLFY-TV Lafayette

EU bid to label Hezbollah wing terror group

A House committee taking Congress' latest look at the Internal Revenue Service's mistreatment of tea party groups will apparently have to do so without input from the star witness.

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Related Topix: Tax, Hofstra University, Terrorism

Vancouver Sun

Halifax parent irate over claims students at school had mouths taped shut

The father of a seven-year-old boy whose mouth was allegedly taped closed by an after-school monitor says school officials in Halifax reacted slowly and incompletely to the incident.

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Related Topix: Kids, Family

Lincoln Daily News

NH-M District 88 receives $30,000 check

New Holland-Middletown Elementary District 88 received a check for $30,000 from the newly formed community group NH-M Community Supports Education at the regularly scheduled school board meeting on May 15.

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Related Topix: New Holland, IL, Middletown, IL