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- School's race rule prompts mom to pull kids out (AP)
- 2 more plead guilty in Obama student loan case (AP)
- NJ Gov fires education chief over $400 mln typo (Reuters)
- Gov. Christie fires education commissioner over video flap (The Upshot)
- Video: NJ didn't fix grant error as governor says (AP)
School's race rule prompts mom to pull kids out (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 03:33 PM PDT AP - A policy intended to achieve racial equality at a north Mississippi school has long meant that only white kids can run for some class offices one year, black kids the next. But Brandy Springer, a mother of four mixed race children, was stunned when she moved to the area from Florida and learned her 12-year-old daughter couldn't run for class reporter because she wasn't the right race. |
2 more plead guilty in Obama student loan case (AP) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 03:01 PM PDT AP - Two more people accused of illegally viewing President Barack Obama's student loan records have pleaded guilty. |
NJ Gov fires education chief over $400 mln typo (Reuters) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 02:12 PM PDT Reuters - New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, a Republican whose deep budget cuts have won wide praise, on Friday fired his education commissioner after a clerical error cost the state $400 million in federal education dollars. |
Gov. Christie fires education commissioner over video flap (The Upshot) Posted: 27 Aug 2010 12:14 PM PDT The Upshot - Republican Gov. Chris Christie has fired New Jersey's education chief after the U.S. Department of Education released video that caught the administration in a lie, the New Jersey Star-Ledger reports. The state missed out on $400 million in federal education funds for submitting budgetary information for the wrong years, a move that Garden State Democrats [...] |
Video: NJ didn't fix grant error as governor says (AP) Posted: 26 Aug 2010 05:45 PM PDT AP - A video released by the federal Department of Education shows that a piece of Gov. Chris Christie's explanation about what went wrong when the state made a $400 million mistake on a grant application may also have been wrong. |
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