Yahoo! News: Education News

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• Some Michigan schools won't join `Race to the Top' (AP)
• Officer, neighbor shot by NY man firing out window (AP)
• Apollo shares slide as gov't reviews aid practices (AP)
• Kansas school districts to reopen funding lawsuit (AP)

Some Michigan schools won't join `Race to the Top' (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 02:50 PM PST AP - Some Michigan school districts with relatively little financial incentive are opting to skip participating in the state's bid to try and win up to $400 million in federal cash for education.

Officer, neighbor shot by NY man firing out window (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 02:12 PM PST AP - Police say an upstate New York man firing shots from his second-floor window injured a neighbor and a responding police officer before surrendering.

Apollo shares slide as gov't reviews aid practices (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 08:31 AM PST AP - Shares of for-profit education provider Apollo Group Inc. fell Friday after it said a Department of Education report found that its students were not properly aware of tuition costs and financial aid eligibility, and that the school was late repaying federal student aid.

Kansas school districts to reopen funding lawsuit (AP) Posted: 08 Jan 2010 08:00 AM PST AP - A legal dispute over the funding of Kansas public schools is heading back to court, challenging recent cuts in education spending by the state.

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