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• 3 arrested as NC school board reverses busing plan (AP)
• Harvard puts lectures, podcasts and more on iTunes U (Macworld.com)
• Gun in Ala. campus shooting bought 2 decades ago (AP)
• Judge: No school prom but lesbian's right violated (AP)
• Bleak budgets force schools to consider closure (AP)
• RBC names Grand Canyon Education 'Top Pick' (AP)
• Court sides with debtor in student loan case (AP)
• Boy killed when school bus in Minn. hits him (AP)

3 arrested as NC school board reverses busing plan (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2010 06:13 PM PDT AP - The school board in North Carolina's capital city narrowly agreed Tuesday to roll back a policy that buses students to achieve diversity, following a tense meeting at which three people were arrested, others were forcibly removed and heated arguments echoed passions from an era past.

Harvard puts lectures, podcasts and more on iTunes U (Macworld.com) Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:40 PM PDT Macworld.com - Want an Ivy League education but don’t want to pay Ivy League prices? That’s not exactly what you’ll get from Harvard’s offerings at iTunes U, but you’re sure to find plenty of quality, Harvard-produced content at no cost to you.

Gun in Ala. campus shooting bought 2 decades ago (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2010 03:14 PM PDT AP - The gun used to kill three people during a faculty meeting at an Alabama school was bought for the suspect's husband two decades ago when he said he was having problems with a neighbor, an investigator testified Tuesday.

Judge: No school prom but lesbian's right violated (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2010 04:43 PM PDT AP - The prom's still off at a Mississippi high school that canceled it instead of letting a lesbian student bring her girlfriend, but a federal judge ruled Tuesday that the district's actions did violate the teen's constitutional rights.

Bleak budgets force schools to consider closure (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2010 12:23 PM PDT AP - In a neighborhood dotted with boarded up homes, trash and gang graffiti, McCoy Elementary has been an oasis.

RBC names Grand Canyon Education 'Top Pick' (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2010 11:39 AM PDT AP - An RBC analyst named Grand Canyon Education Inc. a "Top Pick" Tuesday, saying the for-profit school's decision to charge for more credit hours will accelerate earnings growth.

Court sides with debtor in student loan case (AP) Posted: 23 Mar 2010 07:38 AM PDT AP - A unanimous Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a man who wanted his student loans dismissed through bankruptcy without having to prove that paying the money back would cause an "undue hardship."

Boy killed when school bus in Minn. hits him (AP) Posted: 22 Mar 2010 10:24 PM PDT AP - Authorities say a 6-year-old boy has died after being hit by a school bus in the central Minnesota town of Pine River.

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