Education
NM gets private grant to expand school programs
New Mexico is receiving a half million dollars from a Denver-based philanthropic group to expand programs that allow students to receive an associate degree from a college while attending high school. Gov. Susana Martinez announced Friday that the Daniels Fund is providing $525,000 for the state to establish more pilot ...
Texas teen develops iTunes app: Widget Tabs
At age 16, Julian Alvarez has an app on the iTunes market and the trappings of a development company. Perhaps most importantly, he has the passion to pursue computer engineering as his lifelong career. Widget Tabs, which allows multiple programs to fill one screen via tabs, debuted in April after ...
Michelle Obama speaks of 'hunger' for education
First lady Michelle Obama has spoken passionately about the importance of education to the African-American community in a commencement address to more than 600 graduates of Bowie State University. The first lady spoke Friday about the university's founding in 1865 to train black teachers and the "hunger" its first students ...
Substitute allegedly assaulted student in class
Krotz Springs police were investigating a report that a substitute teacher tore a desk apart and assaulted a 13-year old boy during class at Krotz Springs Elementary School. The boy's mother told The Daily World (http://bit.ly/18QbY3N) that the incident occurred during class Wednesday. Stacey Durham, the seventh grader's mother, said ...
Chinese visitors part of exchange with Ind. city
A group of 30 Chinese citizens — students, teachers and an education delegate — stayed with families and toured elementary schools in Logansport this week where they observed classes, learned about one another and forged friendships through a recently established cultural exchange program. Wang Li and Shi Jin Song, both ...
Tribal leader wants boycott of South Dakota city
The chairman of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe is calling for an economic boycott of Chamberlain after the school board in the southeastern South Dakota city refused to allow a tribal honoring song during Sunday's graduation ceremony. Chairman Brandon Sazue also has called for the withdrawal of millions of dollars ...
Livingston Parish to replace some of its bus fleet
The Livingston Parish School Board has doubled its bus budget to allow the transportation director to replace a fifth of the oldest segment of the district's fleet. Of the 256 school buses on the road in Livingston Parish, Transportation Director Steve Vampran says 156 are 15 years old or older ...
Could Tobacco Be the Next Biofuel?
Biofuel researchers at UC Berkeley may keep the tobacco industry from going up in smoke. Scientists are engineering tobacco plants to produce oils that can serve as biofuels to power airplanes, cars, trucks and other machines. (May 17)
Dewhurst: Texas budget deal should be done Friday
A day of escalating tensions over stuck Texas budget talks ended late Thursday with the House and Senate on the apparent brink of a deal that would restore more than $4 billion to public schools gutted by historic spending cuts two years ago. Dewhurst told The Associated Press late Thursday ...
St. Louis-area kids showcase public works art
Kids' artwork from four Chesterfield elementary schools will go on the road this winter. In fact, it will be on blades for the snow plows that keep those roads clear. Mike Geisel, Chesterfield's director of public services, said the effort is being done in honor of National Public Works Week, ...
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