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1 hr ago | Patch.com

100 Hazelwood School District Seniors Get PTA Scholarships

The Hazelwood School District PTA Council awarded $50,000 in scholarships to 100 seniors representing Hazelwood West, East and Central high schools this week.

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Related Topix: Hazelwood, MO

5 hrs ago | MyFoxAtlanta

Father, 2 children hurt in Douglas Co. dog attack

President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr.

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Related Topix: Atlanta, GA, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Morehouse College, Martin Luther King, Jr.

9 hrs ago | Cape Cod Times

School panel race the only contest in Harwich

The birth of the Monomoy Regional High School is tangible now. The foundation is poured, the girders will be arriving soon and the track and synthetic-surface multipurpose field are taking shape.

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Related Topix: Harwich, MA, Chatham, MA, SUNY College at Oswego, Boston College, Deval Patrick, US Governors

14 hrs ago | Patch.com

Opening Day of Doggie Swim Park at Chapel Hill Kennel

Barking dogs rushed through the gates to splash in the newly filled swimming pools with waterfalls on "Swim Park Grand Re-Opening Day" May 10 at one of Middletown's most bucolic dog kennels, located on a horse farm in Chapel Hill.

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Related Topix: Kids, Family

18 hrs ago | Patch.com

Library, Schools Join for Cobb Summer Reading Program

For the first time, the Cobb County School District is partnering with the Cobb County Public Library System to create a "unified" summer reading experience for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

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Related Topix: Libraries, Cobb, GA

20 hrs ago | KTEN-TV Denison

El Paso police arrest teacher, call in bomb squad

El Paso police used a bomb squad to investigate the home of a high school teacher arrested on charges he had an improper relationship with a student.

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Related Topix: El Paso, TX

Sat May 18, 2013

The Janesville Gazette

'Popcorn Friday' proceeds aid retired Milton teacher

To help buy retired Milton teacher Jim Rotar a device to help him communicate, make checks payable to Milton Middle School with Jim Rotar in the memo line.

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Related Topix: Milton, WI, Parkinson's Disease, Health, Janesville, WI

Patch.com

Art Show, Rubber Duckies, Dog Walk This Weekend

Where/when: Tamenend Park , 1255 Second Street Pike, Upper Southampton, Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the art show; 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the flea market; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the herb sale.

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Related Topix: Ivyland, PA, Warminster, PA

WEAU-TV Eau Claire

Wis. camp gets cleaning after kids get sick

A YMCA camp in western Wisconsin has been cleaned after more than 50 children from a Minnesota school district were sickened with norovirus.

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Related Topix: Kids, Family, Pepin, WI, Haugen, WI

The Janesville Gazette

Milton school staff morale at - all-time low' over plan, teachers say

Teachers this week said morale in the classroom is at an "all-time low" as school staff stare down the barrel of another round of potential cuts in take-home pay the board is considering through a series of insurance changes.

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Related Topix: Explosion

Philly.com

Council committee approves bill that would help schools

AS THOUSANDS of students, parents and teachers marched down North Broad Street to City Hall yesterday calling for more school funding, a City Council committee approved an alternative plan to raise money for the cash-strapped school district.

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KCCI-TV Des Moines

Transgender student wants his new name used at graduation

A transgender student asked the Red Lion School Board Thursday night why he can't use the name he wants to be called, instead of his legal one, at graduation.

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Related Topix: Transgender

Fri May 17, 2013

WFMZ

Dog alerts couple to fire that destroyed house; fundraiser planned

A local police chief and a school principal have their dog to thank for alerting them to a fire that destroyed their home and much of what they own.

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Related Topix: Womelsdorf, PA, Berks County, PA, Temple, PA

Detroit News

Former Pontiac school superintendent reaches settlement

A former superintendent of the financially troubled Pontiac School District who alleged he was fired for exposing fraud and misuse of school funds has agreed to a $100,000 settlement to drop his whistle-blower lawsuit.

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WTVF Nashville

Driver Charged In DUI Crash That Injured Two Teenagers

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. Two Montgomery Central High School students were injured in a head-on DUI crash near their school on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Clarksville, TN, Montgomery County, TN

WOI-TV West Des Moines

Dubuque students may miss planned trip to New York

Dozens of students, parents and staff from a Dubuque high school are unsure what to do after a Cedar Rapids travel agency closed without making arrangements for a planned trip to New York despite about $30,000 in advance payments.

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Related Topix: Dubuque, IA

Michigan Radio

Michigan high school bans baby bump photos from yearbook

A Michigan school district has barred two pregnant students from showing their baby bumps in the high school yearbook - a decision made to keep with the state's abstinence-based approach to sex education, according to the superintendent.

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West Linn Tidings

West Linn-Wilsonville Education Foundation counts on families - Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:00

The West Linn-Wilsonville Education Foundation is in the middle of its annual fundraising effort - the COUNT campaign - to raise money for classroom teaching positions.

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Related Topix: Wilsonville, OR, West Linn, OR

Thu May 16, 2013

The Winnipeg Free Press

Flights in Greece halted for 4 hours as unions hold work stoppages against government

Flights in Greece were halted for four hours Thursday as the country's two largest labour unions staged work stoppages to protest austerity measures and a government decision to cancel a teachers' strike.

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Related Topix: Travel

WBKO-TV Bowling Green

Tennessee Governor Signs School Security Bill

Gov. Bill Haslam has signed a bill that allows school districts to let people with police training be armed in schools.

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Related Topix: Bill Haslam, US Governors