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Newark hopes Facebook gift translates to results (AP) Posted: 25 Sep 2010 10:26 AM PDT AP - New Jersey has already thrown enough money at its largest school district to make it among the nation's best-funded, yet it remains in the pits. Can a $100 million gift from the founder of Facebook really turn it around?

Texas ed board adopts resolution limiting Islam (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2010 06:20 PM PDT AP - The Texas State Board of Education adopted a resolution Friday that seeks to curtail references to Islam in Texas textbooks, as social conservative board members warned of what they describe as a creeping Middle Eastern influence in the nation's publishing industry.

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