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29 Detroit schools to be closed in the fall (AP) Posted: 12 May 2009 03:48 PM PDT AP - The emergency financial manager for the Detroit Public Schools says 29 schools will be closed next fall as the district works to trim a deficit topping $300 million.

Judge forbids LA teachers from staging walkout (AP) Posted: 12 May 2009 03:05 PM PDT AP - A judge has forbidden Los Angeles teachers from staging a one-day walkout Friday to protest planned layoffs and class-size increases.

The Return of the National Standards Debate (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 12 May 2009 01:46 PM PDT U.S. News & World Report - A coalition of education leaders, advocacy groups, and teachers unions is pushing for the development of nationalized common academic standards, an oft-debated tool of education that has yet to be truly implemented. This new groundswell of support for common standards--which would create a single framework of material and skills for students to master in all 50 states and the District of Columbia--is signaling that national standards might be moving closer to reality.

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