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Suit filed in Blytheville school-choice exemption
A group of parents and grandparents is suing the Blytheville School District, claiming it wrongfully denied their children's applications to transfer elsewhere under the state's school choice law. The law, approved this year after a federal judge struck down a similar law, allows students to transfer out of their residential ...
Christus to close main Shreveport hospital
Christus Health will close Sutton Children's Medical Center in Shreveport as it moves services from Christus Schumpert St. Mary Place to south Shreveport and Bossier City. Dr. William Lunn, Christus Health Shreveport-Bossier chief operating officer says the closure is part of a two-year plan to focus on outpatient services and ...
Cuts needed to align Monroe school budget
Reductions in the number of employees, possible school closures and cuts to services including food and transportation are all possibilities as Monroe City Schools superintendent-elect Brent Vidrine takes the helm of the district on June 1. Vidrine tells The New-Star (http://tnsne.ws/118EAgM ) the district will consider all expenditures to balance ...
Judge to hear request to expand Eastside
The proposal to expand Hammond Eastside Middle School to eighth grade will be discussed in federal court May 29 in New Orleans. The Daily Star reports (http://bit.ly/16IOOxJ ) attorneys in the Tangipahoa Parish School Board's desegregation case also will ask U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle to recognize that the school ...
Trial begins in international custody case
A trial was to begin Tuesday in federal court that will determine what country will decide the fate of two 13-year-old twin boys at the center of an international custody battle that extends from Eastern Europe to Middle Tennessee. The trial won't determine whether or not the boys should stay ...
Bay Area teacher arraigned on molestation charges
A third-grade teacher at an Alameda County elementary school faces dozens of charges related to inappropriate behavior with his students. The Oakland Tribune reports (http://bit.ly/1186U9e) that 47-year-old Michael William Howey has been arraigned on 17 counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14 and 23 counts of ...
Va. teacher accused of student assaults in class
A substitute teacher in Orange County faces charges of assaulting several students in a sixth-grade math class. Police tell media outlets that 49-year-old Laurie Millard is charged with six counts each of assault and battery and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. None of the students was seriously injured. ...
Recent Missouri editorials
Southeast Missourian, May 19 Police cameras Improving technology has created endless fuel for the public-privacy debates of our time. We live in a surveillance society with the government and private sectors watching our movements. Whether it's Google or Facebook tracking our online habits for profitable reasons, or the government tracking ...
Bernard Waber, children's author, dies at age 91
Bernard Waber, the author of such children's favorites as "The House on East 88th Street" and "Lyle, Lyle Crocodile," has died. Waber died May 16 at his Long Island home after a long illness, publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced Monday. He was 91. Waber's "warmth, energy, artfulness, elegance, and abiding ...
Attleboro rehires contractor despite lunch flap
The city of Attleboro has renewed its contract with the food services company that created a national ruckus when its workers denied lunch to about two dozen middle school students whose account balances were in arrears. The school committee on Monday approved a one-year contract with New York-based Whitsons Culinary ...
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