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Pa. school nixes Biden’s rally for Democrat Lentz (AP)

Published on October 26, 2010 By rohit

PHILADELPHIA – A Democratic congressional candidate says a Philadelphia-area school district is playing politics by canceling a rally headlined by Vice President Joe Biden. Biden is set to campaign Wednesday for Democrat Bryan Lentz in the home stretch of a close race for an open congressional seat

Report: School cooking blast injures 10 students (AP)

Published on October 22, 2010 By

TORRANCE, Calif. – Officials say portable cooking equipment has exploded in a Southern California classroom, sending 10 high school students to the hospital.

Ga. school district wins $1 million Broad prize (AP)

Published on October 19, 2010 By

ATLANTA – Georgia’s largest school system has won the nation’s top prize in public education, which will provide $1 million in college scholarships for needy students in the district. Gwinnett County Public Schools snagged the Broad Prize for Urban Education, an award the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation gives annually to urban districts that show the most gains in student performance and closing minority achievement gaps. It’s the second year in a row the 150,000-student district was nominated for the prize announced Tuesday.

Deflated bus tires force Ohio school closing (AP)

Published on October 18, 2010 By

MADISON, Ohio – A school district near Cleveland has canceled Monday’s classes because vandals deflated tires on most of the school buses. Madison Local Schools Superintendent Roger Goudy tells Cleveland television stations WJW and WKYC that about three-quarters of the district’s 41 buses were found in a bus garage with air let out of their tires.

2 injured in shooting near Los Angeles high school (AP)

Published on September 16, 2010 By rohit

LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles police say a man and a teenager were injured in a shooting down the block from a high school. Police spokesman Gregory Baek says a person in a red car fired multiple shots Wednesday afternoon near Crenshaw High School.

Texas mom says she waved finger, not gun, at team (AP)

Published on September 11, 2010 By

SAN ANTONIO – A Texas mother who witnesses said pulled a gun on a seventh-grade volleyball team that badly beat her daughter’s team told police she merely waved her finger and never threatened the children, officials said Friday.

Duncan: Schools should disclose more on teachers (AP)

Published on August 26, 2010 By

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan urged schools across the country on Wednesday to disclose more data on student achievement and teacher effectiveness, saying too much information that would help teachers and parents is being kept out of public view

No condoms for grade schoolers, Mass. schools say (AP)

Published on June 30, 2010 By rohit

PROVINCETOWN, Mass. – The superintendent of a Massachusetts school district is apologizing to parents for what she calls a misunderstanding over a condom availability policy. Superintendent Beth Singer said in the letter e-mailed Tuesday that the district will clarify that elementary school-age students won’t be able to get a condom if they request one from the school nurse .

Budget cuts more painful at inner-city LA schools (AP)

Published on June 28, 2010 By

LOS ANGELES – When state budget cuts imperiled city schools, a group of parents fought back by enlisting Hollywood stars to spread a message targeting one of their own, Gov. Arnold Schwarzeneggar.

High court turns down No Child Left Behind case (AP)

Published on June 7, 2010 By

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court has turned away a challenge by school districts and teacher unions to the federal No Child Left Behind law. The court said without comment Monday that it will not step into a lawsuit that questioned whether public schools have to comply with requirements of the law if the federal government doesn’t pay for them.