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3 hrs ago | Modesto Bee

Pittsburgh scholarships saving schools, students

John Tokarski III maintained a 4.4 GPA in Pittsburgh's Schenley High School, played three sports and took on leadership roles.

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Related Topix: Washington & Jefferson College, Kalamazoo, MI, Kalamazoo Metro

7 hrs ago | Detroit News

Taylor schools to hold counseling after youth die in train car collision

Grief counseling will be available to students and staff from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Truman High School in Taylor following the death of several teens in a train and car collision on Thursday afternoon.

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Related Topix: Taylor, MI, Train Disaster, Westland, MI

11 hrs ago | Detroit Free Press

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Seventeen Detroit public high schools are being turned over to four professional educational management companies as part of what school district officials are calling the most dramatic restructuring of the troubled district's history.

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Related Topix: Detroit, MI, Detroit Metro

Fri Jul 10, 2009

ClipSyndicate

VIDEO: Steroids testing

Testing of steroids in High School students yielded eight guilty parties.

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Related Topix: Video, Health

KTHV-TV

Appeals Court Upholds Mitchell Johnson sentence

A federal appeals panel has upheld a four-year prison sentence for a drug and weapons conviction of Mitchell Johnson, one of two Jonesboro Westside Middle School students who killed four students and a teacher in a 1998 massacre.

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Related Topix: Johnson, AR

KOSA

Gov. Perry Names Lowe Chair of Texas State Board of Education

Gov. Perry Names Lowe Chair of Texas State Board of Education 7/10/09 Office of the Governor News Release July 10, 2009 Austin, Texas - Gov.

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Related Topix: Rick Perry, US Governors, Austin Metro, Austin, TX, Lampasas, TX

WPEC-TV West Palm Beach

School police release principal tape

We're now hearing for the first time from a former high school principal, forced from his job due to improper use of a school credit card.

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Rochesterhomepage.net

Principals Plunge into Pilot Program

Who has the toughest job in the Rochester City School District? Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard said it's the principals at the district's nearly 60 schools.

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Related Topix: Rochester, NY

Times Leader

Board of Education plans new Pa. graduation exams

A new generation of high-school graduation competency tests would be phased in starting next year under a plan unveiled Thursday by the chairman of the Pennsylvania Board of Education - the state's latest attempt to navigate a political minefield of opposition to new testing requirements.

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Related Topix: Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Government

Thu Jul 09, 2009

BonitaNews.com - Bonita Springs, Florida

$450,000 grant will help Lee schools improve emergency management

Lee County is among 108 school districts nationwide that will split $26 million in federal grant money.

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10News

Helix High Could Lose Charter For Sex Scandals

The Grossmont Union High School District board was expected to consider Thursday night taking the first step toward revoking Helix High School's 11-year-old charter because of how the school handled a recent series of teacher sex crimes, it was reported Thursday.

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Related Topix: San Diego, CA, San Diego Metro, La Mesa, CA

KSALLink.com

Kansas Education Board to Discuss Fiscal 2011 Budget

Aid to school districts will drop $163 million during the current fiscal year. Districts are losing $215 in base state aid per student, a decline of 4.8 percent.

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The Cincinnati Enquirer

Audit: Stimulus creating summer jobs

COLUMBUS, Ohio - President Barack Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus package will help put 14,200 teens and young adults to work this summer in Ohio, and most of the stimulus-funded highway projects in the state are reaching economically distressed areas, according to a federal report released Wednesday.

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Related Topix: US Politics, Ted Strickland, US News, US House of Representatives, Democrat, Ohio, Barack Obama, Cincinnati, OH, Joe Biden

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VIDEO: At-risk students taught computer, financial skills

13 middle school students from 3 Hampton schools are taking part in the two-week course at Hampton University.

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Related Topix: Video

Wed Jul 08, 2009

WEAR TV3

Destin Lifeguards Awarded "Best in the State"

A group of lifeguards from Destin have been named the best in the state. A group of six lifeguards won the 16th Annual Jacksonville Beach Lifeguard Challenge almost two weeks ago.

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Related Topix: Daytona Beach Metro, Fort Lauderdale Metro, Miami Metro, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

CBC

Orbiting astronaut gets honorary degree

Astronaut Robert Thirsk spins in zero gravity as high school students look on after he was granted an honorary degree by the University of Calgary via video link from the International Space Station.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, NASA

Education Week

School district shapes religious policy

Register or subscribe now, or login below, to continue reading. FEATURED EVENTS Webinar: Cellphones as Instructional Tools July 23, 4 p.m., ET July 9, 2 p.m., ET Live Event Ed-tech strategies that will make a difference to your district now.

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Related Topix: Chicago Metro

6 ABC

Feds: Pa. school indifferent over sex assaults

The Justice Department wants to join a lawsuit filed on behalf of three eastern Pennsylvania boys who say they were raped as first graders.

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Victoria Advocate

Court to weigh school's ban on campaign shirt

Originally published July 8, 2009 at 3:23 a.m., updated July 8, 2009 at 4:25 a.m. NEW ORLEANS a ' A student who claims he was threatened with suspension for wearing a T-shirt supporting John Edwards' presidential campaign is asking a federal appeals court to bar a Texas school district from enforcing its dress code.

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Related Topix: US Politics, John Edwards, US News, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals

KHOU-TV Houston

Gym class no longer required

Health class will no longer be a state requirement for high school students this fall, making Texas one of the few states in the country with no required health education, officials said.

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Related Topix: Texas

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