Education
School storm protection is spotty in tornado zones
With its single-story design and cinder-block walls, Plaza Towers Elementary School may have seemed sturdy when it was built a couple of generations ago. But a powerful tornado revealed the building's lack of modern safety standards, destroying the school and killing seven students. Unlike several other schools in the Oklahoma ...
Obama threatens veto of House student loan plan
President Barack Obama on Wednesday threatened to veto legislation by House Republicans that would avert a doubling of student loan interest rates on July 1 but allow them to vary with the markets going forward. The White House issued the warning a day before the full House was scheduled to ...
Dickinson teachers turn down $38K
The Dickinson Public School Board and an association representing teachers are at an impasse in contract negotiations for the next two school years. The Dickinson Press reports (http://bit.ly/10U6VbS) that the board offered $38,400 per year for new teachers, but the Dickinson Education Association declined the offer. The salary would have ...
Fort Wayne schools want 3rd party to review ISTEP
Indiana's largest school district says it won't accept results of this year's standardized testing until an independent third party validates the scores. Fort Wayne Community Schools announced its position Wednesday in response to computer crashes and delays that frustrated many students during the testing period that began in late April, ...
College fossil-fuel divestment movement builds
Student activists at more than 200 colleges are trying a new tactic in hopes of slowing the pace of climate change: They are asking their schools to stop investing in fossil fuel companies. The Fossil Free campaign argues that if it's wrong to pour pollution into the air and contribute ...
2 children bitten by fox at Ga. elementary school
Two elementary school students in Newton County were bitten by a fox while they were on a playground Wednesday morning, animal control officials said. The fox came onto the playground at Rocky Plains Elementary School in Covington and bit two 6-year-old boys, Newton County Animal Control Director Teri Key-Hoosen said. ...
Most NY school district budgets OK'd by voters
New Yorkers voting on school budgets for next year have approved nearly all of the proposals containing tax increases within state-imposed taxing limits. Budgets that proposed bigger tax increases mostly failed. More than 630 school budgets, about 96 percent, were approved around the state, a preliminary analysis by the New ...
Ala. school board votes to lease laptops
The Oxford school board has voted to lease Apple Macbook Air laptops for middle and high school students. The school board voted to lease the laptops at a meeting Tuesday. The school system's operations director, Eric Burrage, tells the Anniston Star (http://bit.ly/11coEQG ) the four-year lease will cost the school ...
Arizona Senate advances bills for religious groups
A little religion could soon go a long way in avoiding unpopular government mandates. The Arizona Senate passed a trio of bills Wednesday that seek to lower property taxes for religious institutions and make it easier for some people to sue over the First Amendment, much to the chagrin of ...
Divergent opinions offered on education standards
Education standards adopted in Wisconsin and 44 other states are either a rigorous benchmark that will improve student performance, or they're a dangerous intrusion on local control masterminded by the federal government, speakers said at a joint legislative hearing Wednesday. The divergent opinions offered by right-leaning think tanks came as ...
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