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LA schools board passes $6.2 billion budget
The Los Angeles school board has passed a $6.2 billion budget for the next school year that doesn't include steep cuts and layoffs for the first time in five years. The Daily News of Los Angeles (http://bit.ly/14JHyyl ) says an additional $200 million in state funding from a sales tax ...
US sens want answers in child death on reservation
North Dakota's U.S. senators are calling for quick action by authorities investigating the death of a 3-year-old girl on the Spirit Lake Reservation. The FBI has called the death "mysterious" but hasn't released details, citing the ongoing investigation. Sen. Heidi Heitkamp tells the Grand Forks Herald (http://bit.ly/102ohX7 ) she's deeply ...
Cheating on MAP testing alleged in Camdenton
State education officials are investigating allegations of cheating on annual state testing given to students at Camdenton Middle School. The Lake Sun Leader reports (http://bit.ly/14JyMQR ) Superintendent Tim Hadfield notified staff members in a letter last week about the investigation. Hadfield says the allegations include that a teacher signaled students ...
School board in allows dodgeball, similar games
Dodgeball is back in physical education classes in a New Hampshire school district. The Windham School Board on Tuesday night accepted a study committee's recommendation to let students play dodgeball and other "human target" games next year. That was a change from a vote in March to eliminate the games ...
Mo. education officials recommend preschool tests
Missouri education officials are recommending that early childhood programs use a system developed in California to assess whether children are ready to enter school. The state Board of Education has no mandatory assessment tool for early childhood education. Instead, the Missouri board is recommending that preschools voluntarily use an assessment ...
BESE approves $2M for 'Course Choice' program
The state education board is on track to spend $2 million from an oil and gas trust fund for a pilot program to expand online high school course offerings to public school students, after the previous financing source was declared unconstitutional. A panel of the Board of Elementary and Secondary ...
Report faults UW-System education schools
A review of the nation's teacher-training programs released Tuesday suggests that many University of Wisconsin System education schools are of middling quality. The nonprofit National Council on Teacher Quality used a four-star rating system to evaluate teacher preparation programs at more than 1,100 colleges and universities. UW-Stout's undergraduate program for ...
Texas child welfare workers resign amid probe
The Texas child welfare agency under investigation for its mishandling of a toddler's death last year has disciplined two employees after discovering one of them had "an inappropriate relationship" with the child's father, an agency spokesman said Tuesday. Officials were tipped in May that the relationship between Thomas Klapheke and ...
Republicans negotiate changes to Wisconsin budget
Republicans privately negotiated a series of last-minute changes to the Wisconsin budget Tuesday designed to smooth its passage, including removing a cap on a popular tax credit program for disabled veterans and delaying the loosening of requirements for high-capacity wells. The changes, discussed among Republican legislative leaders in both the ...
Especially grim encephalitis toll feared in India
A mosquito-borne disease that preys on the young and malnourished is sweeping across poverty-riven northern India again this monsoon season in what officials worry could be the deadliest outbreak in nearly a decade. Encephalitis has killed at least 118 children so far this year and authorities fear the death toll ...
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