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• Okla. ed board wants use of Rainy Day Fund now (AP)
• Probe continues in Chicago BOE president's death (AP)
• Virtual pioneers: Macedonia schools to get wired (Reuters)
• USDA backs rewarding schools serving healthy food (Reuters)
• China fuels US foreign student boom (AFP)

Okla. ed board wants use of Rainy Day Fund now (AP) Posted: 17 Nov 2009 05:15 PM PST AP - Cuts in state funding for education mean teachers at one northeastern Oklahoma school now must clean their own classrooms while their superintendent scrubs the toilets. A superintendent in a neighboring county is considering laying off five teachers. Yet another is asking veteran teachers to consider early retirement.

Probe continues in Chicago BOE president's death (AP) Posted: 17 Nov 2009 04:55 PM PST AP - Divers returned to the Chicago River and investigators scoured cell phone records Tuesday as police declined to call the death of the city's school board president a suicide a day after an autopsy concluded he shot himself in the head.

Virtual pioneers: Macedonia schools to get wired (Reuters) Posted: 17 Nov 2009 04:19 PM PST Reuters - "Practical English Grammar by Correspondence" -- a 1973 tome published by the Soviet Union -- sits atop a pile of books on the librarian's desk in Macedonia's Grigor Prlichev elementary school.

USDA backs rewarding schools serving healthy food (Reuters) Posted: 17 Nov 2009 01:13 PM PST Reuters - Schools that serve more fruits, vegetables and whole grains to pupils should see higher federal support rates than those serving less-healthier meals loaded with high fats and sugar, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said on Tuesday.

China fuels US foreign student boom (AFP) Posted: 16 Nov 2009 06:34 PM PST AFP - Soaring interest by Chinese students has led to record foreign enrollment at US universities, offering a potential boon to the United States both economically and politically, a study said.

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