2010年3月1日星期一

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


UC students protest budget cuts, fee hikes (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 03:37 PM PST

A broken window is seen at a Subway restaurant Friday, Feb. 26, 2010, in Berkeley, Calif.  A late-night demonstration over university budget cuts turned violent when protesters broke into a U.C. Berkeley campus building, torched trash cans, smashed windows and threw rocks and bottles at police, authorities said Friday. The unrest began around 11 p.m. Thursday after a crowd of more than 100 people gathered on campus for an open-air dance party to raise support for an upcoming statewide protest over education funding cuts. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - University of California students from around the state have traveled to the state capital to protest steep fee hikes and cuts to higher education funding.


Obama seeks money, interventions to stem dropouts (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 02:08 PM PST

President Barack Obama speaks at The America's Promise Alliance Education event, hosted by Alliance Founding Chairman Colin Powell and his wife and Alliance Chair Alma Powell, Monday, march 1, 2010, at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)AP - President Barack Obama on Monday addressed the nation's school dropout epidemic, proposing $900 million to states and school districts that agree to drastically change or even shutter their worst performing schools.


Classes resume at Colo. school where gunman shot 2 (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 01:07 PM PST

In this photo provided by Jefferson County Sheriff's Office on Thursday Feb. 25, 2010, Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood is shown. Eastwood is accused of wounding two middle school students at Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton, Colo. on Tuesday.  (AP Photo/Jefferson County Sheriff's Office)AP - A suburban Denver middle school was back in session Monday for the first time since a gunman wounded two students in the parking lot six days earlier, with counselors in every classroom and a full-time security guard on duty.


Obama cites RI school firings in education speech (AP)

Posted: 01 Mar 2010 12:05 PM PST

AP - President Barack Obama says a Rhode Island school that recently fired all its educators is an example of how there needs to be accountability.

Colo school reopens for counseling after shooting (AP)

Posted: 26 Feb 2010 01:17 PM PST

AP - The Colorado school where two children were shot and wounded has reopened for students who want to talk to counselors or pick up items they left behind in the confusion after the attack.

Teachers to appeal mass firings at RI high school (AP)

Posted: 25 Feb 2010 01:30 PM PST

AP - A union representing the teaching staff fired from one of the worst performing high schools in Rhode Island plans to file appeals over the dismissals.
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