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• University of Calif. approves big fee hikes (AP)
• Detroit schools seek to force board member to talk (AP)
• Gates Foundation gives $335M for teacher quality (AP)
• Idaho schools face cuts, agencies face elimination (AP)
• Study charts use of 'swap' deals by Pa. schools (AP)
• Second lawsuit attacks Florida school funding (AP)
• Chicago police: No homicide in schools chief death (AP)

University of Calif. approves big fee hikes (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 05:27 PM PST AP - The governing board of the University of California approved a $2,500 student fee increase Thursday after two days of tense campus protests across the state.

Detroit schools seek to force board member to talk (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 02:43 PM PST AP - The Detroit Public Schools will seek a court order forcing a school board member to testify about his role in a $1.5 billion construction bond issue, the district's emergency financial manager said Thursday.

Gates Foundation gives $335M for teacher quality (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 12:04 PM PST AP - Three school districts and a coalition of charter schools have agreed to be test kitchens for some radical ideas for improving teacher quality — from paying new teachers to spend another year practicing before getting their own class to letting student test scores affect teacher pay.

Idaho schools face cuts, agencies face elimination (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 08:52 AM PST AP - Two months before the 2010 Idaho Legislature convenes, the session's bitter tenor is set: Public education funding is due to be slashed again and state agencies now scraping to get by could be eliminated to help cover a remaining $52 million budget shortfall.

Study charts use of 'swap' deals by Pa. schools (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 07:46 AM PST AP - Auditor General Jack Wagner said about one-fifth of Pennsylvania's school districts have recently been involved with interest rate "swaps," a practice he said the Legislature should ban.

Second lawsuit attacks Florida school funding (AP) Posted: 19 Nov 2009 05:11 AM PST AP - State officials are facing a second lawsuit filed in as many weeks accusing them of shortchanging public schools in violation of a state constitutional provision requiring a "high quality" education for Florida's children.

Chicago police: No homicide in schools chief death (AP) Posted: 18 Nov 2009 06:03 PM PST AP - Chicago police said Wednesday that tests have revealed gunshot residue on the hand of Michael Scott — the strongest evidence yet that the president of the city's school board took his own life.

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