2009年3月5日星期四

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Yahoo! News: Education News

Conn.-based broadcasting school shuts down (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 04:25 PM PST

Recent graduate Tracy Miller of Plainville, Conn., reads a notice of closure on the door of her school, The Connecticut School of Broadcasting in Farmington, Conn., Thursday, March 5, 2009. Officials at the private Connecticut-based broadcasting school say it will seek bankruptcy protection after abruptly shutting down this week. The school operates 26 campuses in 16 states. It was founded in Connecticut in 1964 by a Hartford broadcaster. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)AP - A private Connecticut-based broadcasting school with campuses in more than a dozen states abruptly shut down this week and said Thursday it will seek bankruptcy protection.

Shy teen spotlights battle over failing schools (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 04:18 PM PST

Reuters - A shy 14-year-old girl plucked from obscurity by the White House and given star treatment has come to symbolize a battle over how to fix dilapidated U.S. schools.

Broadcasting school had 26 locations (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 12:32 PM PST

AP - Connecticut School of Broadcasting campuses:

Mich. teen charged in beating of school bus driver (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 10:14 AM PST

AP - A 16-year-old Michigan boy has been charged in the beating of a substitute school bus driver.

Police arrest 2 Ga. students, find gun in school (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 09:41 AM PST

AP - Two students are in custody, three guns were seized and a suburban Atlanta school was locked down after authorities were tipped that a student planned to bring guns to school.

Playground One: Obama daughters get new swing set (AFP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 07:22 AM PST

A newly installed swingset just outside the Oval Office on the south lawn of The White House in Washington, DC. President Barack Obama's young daughters Malia and Sasha got a huge surprise when they got home from school on Wednesday -- a brand new swing set, climbing frame and slide.(AFP/File/Chris Kleponis)AFP - President Barack Obama's young daughters Malia and Sasha got a huge surprise when they got home from school on Wednesday -- a brand new swing set, climbing frame and slide outside the Oval Office.

Mayoral control of NYC schools up for renewal (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2009 02:17 AM PST

In this Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2009 picture, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg discusses his initiative to support the city's financial services sector and encourage entrepreneurship at a news conference in lower Manhattan, in New York. As Bloomberg campaigns for re-election - after angering rivals by changing the city's term limits law so that he can run - he is aggressively fighting any attempt to wrest the schools from his control. (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)AP - Mayor Michael Bloomberg has touted his stewardship of the city's public school system as a key achievement of his administration — and a reason to re-elect him to a third term.

Hispanic enrollment in schools, colleges rising (AP)

Posted: 04 Mar 2009 09:26 PM PST

AP - Roughly one-fourth of the nation's kindergartners are Hispanic, evidence of an accelerating trend that now will see minority children become the majority by 2023.

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