Education
Third-grade FCAT math and reading scores static
Third-grade math and reading scores on Florida's standardized test remained static this school year, with fewer than two-thirds of students demonstrating grade-level proficiency, according to results released Friday by the state Department of Education. The scores show 57 percent of third-grade students performed at grade level in reading on the ...
Ex-Ga. PTA president sentenced in embezzlement
The former president of an elementary school PTA and educational foundation has been sentenced to jail and probation for stealing at least $80,000 from the groups. Fulton County District Attorney's spokeswoman Yvette Jones says 48-year-old Maryam Arjomand pleaded guilty Thursday to forgery and theft by taking. Jones says Arjomand, of ...
Gov. warns schools he will fight tuition hikes
Florida Gov. Rick Scott is strongly warning universities that he will fight against any tuition hikes this year. Scott made the warning in a letter sent out Friday to the heads of the boards that oversee the state's 12 public universities. He urged university boards to join him in a ...
Teen to be tried as adult over school bomb
A 16-year-old boy accused of bringing an explosive device to his Lafayette high school was charged Friday with first-degree attempted murder and will be prosecuted as an adult. Andrew de Bartolome also is charged with use of explosives, possession of an explosive or incendiary device and menacing, all felonies, the ...
County to ponder school building use by suburbs
The issue of what to do with some Shelby County school buildings is re-emerging, now that a new statute will allow suburbs to form their own school districts. The Commercial Appeal (http://bit.ly/18bEtdp ) reported the chairman of the unified Memphis and Shelby County school board's ad hoc facilities committee is ...
Obama: Sexual assault threatens trust in military
With a growing sexual assault epidemic staining the military, President Barack Obama urged U.S. Naval Academy graduates Friday to remember their honor depends on what they do when nobody is looking and said the crime has "no place in the greatest military on earth." The commander in chief congratulated the ...
City of Huron opens $12.5M water park
The city of Huron on Friday opened its new $12.5 million Splash Central Water Park on the former campus of Huron University. Mayor Paul Aylward tells KOKK radio that the water park is a great facility to enhance the quality of life in the city, and it will be something ...
Neb student loan company Nelnet to fill 300 jobs
Student loan company Nelnet has announced it will seek to fill more than 300 jobs in Lincoln over the next three months. The company made the announcement Thursday during its annual shareholders' meeting, the Lincoln Journal Star reported (http://bit.ly/170889J) Friday. Nelnet President Jeff Noordhoek said the company wants to fill ...
Bill preventing UNC opposite-sex housing returns
A bill blocking a University of North Carolina policy allowing students to choose roommates of the opposite sex has found new life in the state Senate budget. The proposal was inserted in the $20.6 billion plan approved this week. It seeks to prevent a UNC-Chapel Hill policy giving students the ...
Vt. to do national search for education secretary
A committee of Vermont State Board of Education has been set up to do a national search for a new education secretary. Armando Vilaseca, who was education commissioner, was appointed to the job for a year in January. Gov. Peter Shumlin had said that a national search would begin at ...
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