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LA school board buying out school superintendent (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2008 05:47 PM CST AP - The Los Angeles school board voted Tuesday to buy out the final two years of its contract with the embattled superintendent of the nation's second-largest district, a former Navy admiral with no previous experience as an educator.

6 PR Catholic schools to close due to meltdown (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2008 05:14 PM CST AP - Roman Catholic officials plan to shutter six church schools in the Puerto Rican capital next year in part because of the global financial crisis.

Pa. teen charged in foiled school attack plot (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2008 04:36 PM CST AP - A 15-year-old boy stole his father's guns to use in a suicidal attack against enemies at his suburban Philadelphia high school but was thwarted when a friend threw the weapons in a river, authorities said.

Unknown graves at Fla. reform school investigated (AP) Posted: 09 Dec 2008 03:41 PM CST AP - A former inmate at a Florida reform school known for severe beatings decades ago says he remembers walking into a laundry room, peering through a foggy dryer window and seeing a boy tumbling inside. Afraid of retribution, Dick Colon walked away.

GRE Participation Down (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 09 Dec 2008 02:11 PM CST U.S. News & World Report - The Educational Testing Service is reporting that they expect the number of GRE tests taken this year will go down, the first time there has been a dip in participation in an economic downturn, the Chronicle of Higher Education and Inside Higher Ed report.

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