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• Minority members oppose plans for ed law rewrite (AP)
• Arne Duncan calls for personal finance lessons starting in kindergarten (The Lookout)
• NJ students text parents to say bus driver drunk (AP)

Minority members oppose plans for ed law rewrite (AP) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 01:01 PM PST AP - Minority lawmakers say House and Senate plans to rewrite the No Child Left Behind education law fail to protect minority children, those with disabilities and children learning English.

Arne Duncan calls for personal finance lessons starting in kindergarten (The Lookout) Posted: 11 Nov 2011 05:44 AM PST The Lookout - Education Secretary Arne Duncan said this week that schools should incorporate personal finance into lesson plans. He proposes that such instruction should start as early as kindergarten to combat widespread financial illiteracy. "As important as reading and math and social studies and science, I think today more than ever financial literacy has to be part [...]

NJ students text parents to say bus driver drunk (AP) Posted: 10 Nov 2011 07:11 PM PST AP - A New Jersey bus driver has been charged with drunken driving after a middle school student texted home with "Mommy I think our bus driver is drunk she's not driving right."

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