2009年4月2日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Education News

Educators decry SC gov's anti-bailout stance (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 04:14 PM PDT

AP - Parents and teachers in a state with one of the nation's worst graduation rates are predicting their governor's vow to reject federal cash for schools will cost hundreds of teaching jobs, crowd classrooms and hurt poor children.

US university scraps porn after funding threat (AFP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 04:04 PM PDT

An attempt to distract university students in Maryland from late-night drinking with a feature-length porn movie was blocked Thursday after state senators threatened to cut funds for the college.(University of Maryland)AFP - An attempt to distract university students in Maryland from late-night drinking with a feature-length porn movie was blocked Thursday after state senators threatened to cut funds for the college.


Correction: Air quality tests near schools (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 01:55 PM PDT

AP - In a March 31 story about plans to monitor air quality near 62 schools, The Associated Press reported erroneously how long the tests would run. Air samples will be collected on 10 days over a two-month period, not one month.

Little Rock school desegregation order upheld (AP)

Posted: 02 Apr 2009 11:12 AM PDT

AP - A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a judge's ruling that the Little Rock School District has met terms of a long-standing desegregation order.

Wash. man convicted in fellow student's murder (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 05:04 PM PDT

AP - A 20-year-old man who had been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic was convicted Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a fellow high school student.

Schools to begin receiving economic stimulus money (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 04:07 PM PDT

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, center left, and Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, speak to a class at Doswell Brooks Elementary School, including student Jeisy Escobar, 11, right, after a news conference about education stimulus funding, in Capitol Heights, Md. on Wednesday, April 1, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Education Secretary Arne Duncan released the first $44 billion in economic stimulus money directed to schools Wednesday but said strings will be attached to the next round of aid.


7 students punished at Winfrey's school for girls (AP)

Posted: 01 Apr 2009 11:30 AM PDT

In this Dec. 5, 2008 file photo, Oprah Winfrey arrives at The Hollywood Reporter's annual Women in Entertainment Breakfast in Beverly Hills, Calif. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)AP - Seven students have been punished for violating the code of conduct at Oprah Winfrey's school for disadvantaged girls in South Africa, the second controversy to hit the fledgling institution since it opened in 2007.


School chief: Mayors need control of urban schools (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 04:12 PM PDT

AP - Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Tuesday that mayors should take control of big-city school districts where academic performance is suffering.

Get "junk" food out of U.S. schools: PTA, diet group (Reuters)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 03:05 PM PDT

Reuters - Congress can fight the epidemic of childhood obesity by getting "junk" food out of school stores and snack machines, a parent-teacher group and the American Dietetic Association said on Tuesday.

EPA to test air around 62 schools in 22 states (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 12:21 PM PDT

AP - The Environmental Protection Agency will soon be adding a different kind of equipment to dozens of school yards around the country — air pollution monitors.

Suburban schools see limited Hispanic integration (AP)

Posted: 31 Mar 2009 06:06 AM PDT

AP - Hispanic students have become more segregated in suburban public schools over the last decade, even while blacks and Asians have become slightly less isolated, according to a new study.

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