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• District's error axes summer break for 2 schools (AP)
• Supreme Court rejects school strip search (Reuters)
• Boss for troubled Texas state schools to retire (AP)
• Homeschooling goes from fringe to mainstream in US (AFP)
• Hundreds gather to mourn slain Iowa football coach (AP)

District's error axes summer break for 2 schools (AP) Posted: 25 Jun 2009 03:11 PM PDT AP - It's a kid's worst nightmare — just as the last bell has rung for summer break, a school district's error sentences students to another six weeks in class.

Supreme Court rejects school strip search (Reuters) Posted: 25 Jun 2009 09:03 AM PDT Reuters - A public school violated the privacy rights of a teenage girl who had to disrobe on suspicion she had ibuprofen pills, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in its first decision on student strip searches.

Boss for troubled Texas state schools to retire (AP) Posted: 25 Jun 2009 08:30 AM PDT AP - The head of a Texas agency in charge of the troubled state-run institutions for the mentally disabled has announced she is retiring.

Homeschooling goes from fringe to mainstream in US (AFP) Posted: 25 Jun 2009 06:51 AM PDT AFP - When Elizabeth Dean was four, her mother took her out of kindergarten to teach her at home because she could already read the children's classic "Charlotte's Web" while the other kids were just learning how to write the letter "C".

Hundreds gather to mourn slain Iowa football coach (AP) Posted: 24 Jun 2009 06:59 PM PDT AP - Hundreds of mourners prayed and embraced at a stadium in rural Iowa to remember a longtime high school football coach who authorities say was gunned down by one of his former players.

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