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• School board member pleads guilty to sex abuse (AP)
• Md. police suspend 2 more officers in video probe (AP)
• Inquest held in '86 killing by woman in Ala. case (AP)
• Ivy League Schools Dominate America's Best Graduate School Rankings (U.S. News & World Report)
• Parents end weeklong school furlough sit-in (AP)
• Student loan change could boost aid work: Clinton (Reuters)
• Query of '86 killing by suspect in Ala. case ends (AP)
• Man accused of taking gun into Pittsburgh school (AP)
• Mass. meeting in wake of bullying case gets heated (AP)
• Tribal project lends a hand to India education aims (Reuters)
• Pa. police: 3rd grader gave heroin to classmates (AP)
• Mo. Senate restores education spending cuts (AP)

School board member pleads guilty to sex abuse (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 05:36 PM PDT AP - A Southern California school board member has pleaded guilty to molesting a young girl for five years.

Md. police suspend 2 more officers in video probe (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 03:34 PM PDT AP - Police in Maryland say they have suspended two more officers in their investigation of the beating of a University of Maryland student captured on video.

Inquest held in '86 killing by woman in Ala. case (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 03:15 PM PDT AP - A prosecutor who has had sharp criticism for police who investigated the 1986 killing of a teenager by his sister was the last witness called over three days to testify at a judicial inquest into the shooting.

Ivy League Schools Dominate America's Best Graduate School Rankings (U.S. News & World Report) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 02:03 PM PDT U.S. News & World Report - In the wake of 2008's housing crisis and the recession that ensued, college graduates are finding it harder than ever to penetrate the job market. Many now find themselves competing against recently laid off workers who possess a decade or more of experience. Though it's been nearly two years since the onset of the financial meltdown, the country's unemployment rate still hovers near 10 percent. Rather than wade into such a treacherous job market, many have opted to try their hand at graduate school. ...

Parents end weeklong school furlough sit-in (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 11:32 AM PDT AP - Parents who have been protesting Hawaii's shortest-in-the-nation school year have ended a sit-in that lasted several days at Gov. Linda Lingle's office.

Student loan change could boost aid work: Clinton (Reuters) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 11:19 AM PDT Reuters - More U.S. graduates are likely to work with aid groups and charities after an overhaul of the country's student loan program lessens their debt repayment burden, former U.S. President Bill Clinton said.

Query of '86 killing by suspect in Ala. case ends (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 11:06 AM PDT AP - Testimony has ended in a judicial inquest into the fatal shooting of a teenager in 1986 by his sister, who is now a college professor charged in a mass shooting.

Man accused of taking gun into Pittsburgh school (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 07:16 AM PDT AP - Authorities have filed charges against a man they say entered a Pittsburgh high school with a gun and injured a security guard when both men tumbled through a glass door.

Mass. meeting in wake of bullying case gets heated (AP) Posted: 15 Apr 2010 07:01 AM PDT AP - A school committee meeting for a Massachusetts district embroiled in a bullying controversy turned heated.

Tribal project lends a hand to India education aims (Reuters) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 10:31 PM PDT Reuters - It's an ambitious plan -- giving all children under the age of 6 a free education among India's 1-billion plus population -- but at least one local initiative is making sure millions of tribal people with oral traditions don't get left behind.

Pa. police: 3rd grader gave heroin to classmates (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 07:47 PM PDT AP - Police say a third-grader in Pennsylvania handed out more than 60 small bags of heroin to his classmates before his teacher discovered them.

Mo. Senate restores education spending cuts (AP) Posted: 14 Apr 2010 05:37 PM PDT AP - Missouri senators reversed course Wednesday and decided to preserve a deal freezing college tuition and to fund a program that gives teachers a salary boost for extra work, such as after-school tutoring.

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