2011年4月28日星期四

Yahoo! News: Education News

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: Education News


Ind. school shooting victim, 15, out of hospital (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 04:38 PM PDT

AP - The family of a 15-year-old Martinsville West Middle School student who was shot twice in the abdomen at the school says he has been released from a hospital but has a "very long road to recovery."

Homeless child enrolled in wrong school: What should happen to him? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 01:17 PM PDT

The Christian Science Monitor - The case of Tanya McDowell is putting advocates for homeless students on alert.

NJ voters approve 80 percent of school budgets (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 11:50 AM PDT

AP - A year after an anti-tax revolt took its toll on school budgets, New Jersey voters have returned to their more generous ways in the state's one-of-a-kind school tax elections.

U of Alabama cancels commencement in storms' wake (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 11:34 AM PDT

AP - The University of Alabama has canceled students' final exams and postponed commencement ceremonies for graduating students in the wake of devastating storms that killed dozens across the state.

Tennessee Senate to consider banning ‘gay’ mentions in K-8 (The Lookout)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 10:19 AM PDT

The Lookout - The Tennessee Senate is set to vote next week on a bill that would criminalize teaching about homosexuality in schools enrolling students from kindergarten through the eighth grade Teachers could be charged with a misdemeanor if they talked about homosexuality. There's already a law in the state forbidding teachers from straying at all from the [...]

Butler who served British royals opens NY school (AP)

Posted: 28 Apr 2011 05:12 AM PDT

*** CORRECTS SECOND SENTENCE *** In this Wednesday, April 27 2011 photo, Christopher Ely, a butler who once worked at Buckingham Palace and the Windsors, poses for a portrait at The French Culinary Institute in New York. After decades of service to royalty, Hollywood celebrities and diplomats, the 48-year-old master butler is opening a Manhattan school to teach genteel old British ways — updated for 21st century New York.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - Butler Christopher Ely has done it all: served dinner to the queen at Buckingham Palace, brushed the bearskin atop a royal guard's helmet, sat on a carriage carrying Princess Diana.


Indiana lawmakers OK broadest voucher plan in US (AP)

Posted: 27 Apr 2011 06:06 PM PDT

AP - Indiana will create the nation's broadest private school voucher system and enact other sweeping education changes, making the state a showcase of conservative ideas just as Gov. Mitch Daniels nears an announcement on whether he will make a 2012 presidential run.
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