2009年8月24日星期一

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


Ex-student arrested in California school explosion (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 05:44 PM PDT

Students, teachers and administrators from Hillsdale High School are evacuated in San Mateo, Calif., Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. Authorities say an explosion at this high school has forced evacuation of students and cancellation of classes. There are no reports of injuries. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - A 17-year-old boy with a sword, chainsaw and explosive devices attached to his body was arrested Monday after he detonated two explosives at a Northern California high school, authorities said.


Ex-student arrested in San Mateo school explosion (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 02:57 PM PDT

AP - A 17-year-old boy is under arrest after police say he detonated an explosive at a California high school.

Consumer strain: Pens and notebooks put on layaway (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 10:48 AM PDT

In this photo made Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009, Tammy Wyatt, a layaway specialist at Kmart in Conover, N.C., hangs a bag containing back-to-school supplies that a customer has put on layaway. It is unheard of for layaway rooms to be so packed at back-to-school time and for the packages to include relatively cheap school supplies. (AP Photo/Nell Redmond)AP - To gauge consumers' strain, look no further than the rows and rows of plastic bags awaiting layaway payments at Kmart. They are filled with back-to-school basics — not just T-shirts and jeans but notebooks, magic markers and pencils.


Several students injured in Neb. school bus crash (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 10:17 AM PDT

AP - Nearly two dozen students were injured when a school bus collided with a pickup truck at a rural Nebraska intersection.

Schools urged to prepare for swine flu absences (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 09:52 AM PDT

Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, speaks with school children at H.D. Cooke Elementary School in Washington, after speaking at a news conference about the H1N1 virus, on Monday, Aug. 24, 2009. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)AP - Schools should be ready with hard-copy packets and online lessons to keep learning going even if swine flu sickens large numbers of students, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said Monday.


In the red, US school districts cut yellow buses (AP)

Posted: 24 Aug 2009 06:20 AM PDT

Buses are parked in a row at a Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District transportation center Friday, Aug. 7, 2009 in Houston. In a cost-saving measure, the school district will stop busing students who live within two miles of their school this year. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)AP - As a mother of two, Feleccia Moore-Davis is accustomed to the usual back-to-school swirl of new supplies, new clothes and new routines. But this year, that final flurry of summer is accompanied by an unusual worry.


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