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Calif principal sells shoe collection to save jobs (AP)
Group criticizes mock Iowa school shooting drill (AP)
Pupil nut allergy: School eases up on restrictions (AP)
Possible Republican 2012 hopefuls criticize public schools (Reuters)
Are College Rankers Becoming Too Powerful? (U.S. News & World Report)
Ariz. students protest planned cuts to 3 campuses (AP)
Investigation continues in UConn student's death (AP)
Alpine bond proposal would build 5 new schools (AP)

Calif principal sells shoe collection to save jobs (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 06:03 PM PDT

AP - Worried about possible layoffs, school principal Michele Miller spotted a potential solution in her own home.

Group criticizes mock Iowa school shooting drill (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 04:18 PM PDT

AP - An anti-illegal immigration group in Iowa is criticizing a mock school shooting training drill that includes a fake scenario involving a teen who vents his anger over illegal immigration by using violence.

Pupil nut allergy: School eases up on restrictions (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 02:11 PM PDT

AP - An elementary school beset by the protests of some parents is scrapping some of the more severe restrictions it had implemented to protect a first-grader with a severe allergy to nuts, such as obliging classmates to rinse their mouths twice daily with water.

Possible Republican 2012 hopefuls criticize public schools (Reuters)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 12:35 PM PDT

Reuters - Three potential 2012 Republican presidential candidates expressed hostility toward the public school system at a home schooling rally on Wednesday in the early presidential caucus state of Iowa.

Are College Rankers Becoming Too Powerful? (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 09:01 AM PDT

U.S. News & World Report - Are universities overly influenced by the rankings? Are the ranking organizations themselves becoming too powerful, and are the rankers the ones really setting higher education policy? To what degree are students and others influenced by the rankings--and what are the long-term implications of the rapidly spreading global rankings movement?

Ariz. students protest planned cuts to 3 campuses (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 08:03 AM PDT

AP - Students at Arizona's three state universities are publicly protesting recommended funding cuts of $235 million that would raise tuition.

Investigation continues in UConn student's death (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:52 AM PDT

AP - Friends of a University of Connecticut student killed by a campus shuttle bus are planning a vigil near the spot where he died.

Alpine bond proposal would build 5 new schools (AP)

Posted: 24 Mar 2011 05:00 AM PDT

AP - School officials in Alpine, Utah, want to build five new schools as part of a proposed $210 million bond.