2011年4月18日星期一

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Yahoo! News: Education News


APNewsBreak: Lawsuit filed over Haiti sex abuse (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 04:37 PM PDT

AP - A federal lawsuit seeking $20 million in damages was filed Monday against Fairfield University, the Society of Jesus and a Colorado man sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison for sexually abusing children at a school he founded in Haiti.

Chicago Mayor-elect Emanuel names schools chief (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 03:32 PM PDT

AP - Chicago Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel on Monday picked Rochester, N.Y., schools superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard to be the new Chicago Public Schools chief, selecting a leader who recently earned a no-confidence vote from his local teachers but someone Emanuel praised as not being afraid of "tough choices."

New Chicago schools chief has record of reform, but irked teachers (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 01:22 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The man Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel has selected to lead the Chicago Public Schools has a track record of improving graduation rates and test scores in his current job in Rochester, N.Y., but has also had conflicts with the teachers union there that recently resulted in a "no confidence" vote.

Work begins on new SC school featured by Obama (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 12:46 PM PDT

AP - Construction is starting on a new school in South Carolina more than two years after a student wrote Congress about the decrepit conditions at her school.

Correction: Guns on Campus story (AP)

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 08:39 AM PDT

AP - In an April 12 story about delays to a Texas Senate bill that would allow concealed handgun license holders to carry weapons into college classrooms, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the University of Texas-Brownsville asked to be exempt because it has a grade school on campus. The school that asked for the exemption is Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

Congress Introduces Bill to Improve Graduation Rates (U.S. News & World Report)

Posted: 18 Apr 2011 08:01 AM PDT

U.S. News & World Report - Members of Congress recently introduced a bill that would require states to improve graduation rates to 90 percent and to report data uniformly. It's expected to be pushed through with a revamping of the No Child Left Behind Act.

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