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• Suit: Girl was checked out of Miss. school, raped (AP)
• Ed. Secy: States to get waivers on No Child tests (AP)
• Gov. Brown endorses popular vote bill for Calif. (AP)
• School shooting plot: bond $500,000 each (AP)
• Obama to offer states waivers on school-aid law (Reuters)
• Judge: Memphis school merger with county legal (AP)
• Obama to offer No Child Left Behind waivers (Reuters)
• Md. mom who killed son agonized over school costs (AP)

Suit: Girl was checked out of Miss. school, raped (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2011 04:16 PM PDT AP - A federal appeals court has reinstated a lawsuit that claims a 9-year-old Mississippi girl was checked out of school six times by an unauthorized man who then raped her.

Ed. Secy: States to get waivers on No Child tests (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2011 03:13 PM PDT AP - The Obama administration effectively gutted the Bush-era No Child Left Behind law Monday, giving states a way out of a decade-long policy that focused on holding schools accountable but labeled many of them failures even if they made progress.

Gov. Brown endorses popular vote bill for Calif. (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2011 02:53 PM PDT AP - Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that would award all of California's 55 Electoral College votes to the winner of the national popular vote in presidential elections.

School shooting plot: bond $500,000 each (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2011 02:49 PM PDT AP - A family court judge ordered $500,000 bond on Monday for each of three 15-year-old boys accused of plotting to kill two specific people and anyone else in their way on the first day of class at their suburban New Orleans school.

Obama to offer states waivers on school-aid law (Reuters) Posted: 08 Aug 2011 01:57 PM PDT Reuters - The Obama administration will allow U.S. states to opt out of some of the No Child Left Behind education law because Congress has failed to reform the controversial program, two senior officials said on Monday.

Judge: Memphis school merger with county legal (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2011 01:40 PM PDT AP - A federal judge has ruled that the merger between Memphis City Schools and its surrounding county school district is legal.

Obama to offer No Child Left Behind waivers (Reuters) Posted: 08 Aug 2011 12:41 PM PDT Reuters - The administration will provide qualifying states waivers from No Child Left Behind after Congressional inaction on reforming the program, White House Domestic Policy Council Director Melody Barnes and Education Secretary Arne Duncan said on Monday.

Md. mom who killed son agonized over school costs (AP) Posted: 08 Aug 2011 02:46 PM PDT AP - Ben Barnhard finally had reason to be optimistic this summer: The 13-year-old shed more than 100 pounds at a rigorous weight-loss academy, a proud achievement for a boy who had endured classmates' taunts about his obesity and who had sought solace in the quiet of his bedroom, with his pet black cat and the intricate origami designs he created.

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