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• Obama song video prompts protests at NJ school (AP)
• NM school goes from worst to among best in 3 years (AP)
• Schwarzenegger OKs school bill required by US law (AP)

Obama song video prompts protests at NJ school (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 11:05 AM PDT AP - Protesters brought some different songs Monday to an elementary school where students sang in praise of President Barack Obama, bringing criticism from conservative commentators who said children were being indoctrinated.

NM school goes from worst to among best in 3 years (AP) Posted: 12 Oct 2009 06:11 AM PDT AP - Fifth grader Darius Yazzie's after-school chores include hauling water for horses and feeding chickens, while his classmate, Shanika Begay, rides a bus 15 miles each way through the rolling hills of this impoverished corner of the Navajo Nation.

Schwarzenegger OKs school bill required by US law (AP) Posted: 11 Oct 2009 05:39 PM PDT AP - California is removing a legal ban on using the results of student achievement tests to evaluate teachers, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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