Education
With time short, Minn. lawmakers meet over weekend
Moving in fits and starts Saturday, the Minnesota Legislature tried to nail down the final pieces of the next state budget, including votes on a nearly $16 billion school funding bill that's been one of the chief priorities for Democrats running things at the Capitol. Floor sessions also were likely ...
First lady to high school grads: Live your dreams
First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: Strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit. Mrs. Obama spoke for 22 minutes to the graduates of Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Magnet High School on ...
Eugene schools face $16 million budget gap
The Eugene School District wants wage concessions from teachers because of a projected $16 million budget gap. Up to 20 teachers could lose their jobs because of the budget problems, and that number could nearly double if the teachers' union does not accept wage concessions, The Register-Guard newspaper reported (http://is.gd/y2hvDL ...
Suspect identified in fatal Hofstra home invasion
A wanted man with a criminal history dating back nearly 15 years was identified by police Saturday as the masked home invader involved in the death of a Hofstra University student early Friday morning. Dalton Smith, who was wanted on a parole violation related to a first-degree robbery conviction, attempted ...
Chicago Teachers Union begins 3-day citywide march
Hundreds of teachers, parents and students took to Chicago's streets Saturday, the first of three days of marches to protest Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to close dozens of city school. The show of force was meant to add weight to a pair of lawsuits filed in recent days. Police-escorted processions ...
Most ND school districts fail to meet standards
More than two-thirds of North Dakota's public school districts failed to meet annual federal education standards, and one superintendent says it's bound to get worse. The Annual Yearly Progress report released Friday shows that 126 of the 177 districts in the state either failed to meet the goals for math ...
Imprisoned Ohio Amish complain about schooling
Some of the Amish sentenced in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio are upset with federal prison education requirements. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has required some to study for high school equivalency certificates, one of their defense attorneys said. The Amish claim that violates their First Amendment rights. ...
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. ...
Immigrant inspires scholarships at St. Paul school
The first two students have awarded college scholarships bearing the man of Congolese native who died in a traffic accident after moving to Minnesota. Medard Prosper and two brothers survived a civil war in his native Democratic Republic of Congo that claimed his parents and nine siblings. The 19-year-old died ...
Texas Tech won't raise tuition, fees for 2013-14
Texas Tech University students will not pay more for tuition and fees in 2013-14. The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (http://bit.ly/14BJvv1 ) reported Saturday that the regents' vote Friday applies to in-state, undergraduate students enrolled in 15 semester credit hours at Texas Tech, its health sciences center and at Angelo State University in ...
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