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- APNewsBreak: Lawsuit filed over Haiti sex abuse (AP)
- Chicago Mayor-elect Emanuel names schools chief (AP)
- New Chicago schools chief has record of reform, but irked teachers (The Christian Science Monitor)
- Work begins on new SC school featured by Obama (AP)
- Correction: Guns on Campus story (AP)
- Congress Introduces Bill to Improve Graduation Rates (U.S. News & World Report)
| 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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