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• Calif. teachers protest budget at state Capitol (AP)
• Police: Man set mom aflame, held teacher hostage (AP)
• Texas Senate approves guns in college classrooms (AP)
• Michele Bachmann's School Banned 'Aladdin' (The Atlantic Wire)
• Review finds 26 Conn. students illegally enrolled (AP)
• A Graduation Gift for College Seniors: Jobs (BusinessWeek)
• Cyber-school students: Pentagon snubs our service (AP)
• 20 Most Useful College Majors (The Daily Beast)

Calif. teachers protest budget at state Capitol (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 04:32 PM PDT AP - Hundreds of teachers from around California descended on the state Capitol Monday to make the case for extending tax hikes as a way to stave off deep budget cuts to public education.

Police: Man set mom aflame, held teacher hostage (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 02:49 PM PDT AP - A Texas man set fire to his mother, then went to a nearby school and tried to sexually assault a teacher at knifepoint before the superintendent broke down the door to help free her, police and school officials said Monday.

Texas Senate approves guns in college classrooms (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 02:31 PM PDT AP - Texas senators have voted to allow concealed handgun license holders to carry their weapons into public college classrooms.

Michele Bachmann's School Banned 'Aladdin' (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 09 May 2011 10:20 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire - Michele Bachmann's path into politics was one followed by many conservative Christians: through the schools. Bachmann sent her five kids to religious schools near her suburban Minnesota home, but she sent her 23 foster kids to public schools. She found the materials brought home by those kids to be troubling. So in 1993, she helped found one of the first public charter schools in her state. Only three months after the school opened, Bachmann faced controversy for the religious bent of the curriculum, Bloomberg's Lisa Lerer and John McCormick report. One teacher, for example, had banned Aladdin because the Disney movie mentioned magic.

Review finds 26 Conn. students illegally enrolled (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 09:31 AM PDT AP - Connecticut officials say 26 students have been removed from Norwalk schools since fall for being illegally enrolled, but a homeless single mother is the only parent to be criminally charged.

A Graduation Gift for College Seniors: Jobs (BusinessWeek) Posted: 09 May 2011 05:08 AM PDT BusinessWeek - Hamza Afzal had such a hard time finding an electrical engineering internship during the recession that he delayed his graduation, took pre-med classes, and applied to law school. This year he got two job offers in his field. "I definitely saw a shift in the job market," says Afzal, a senior at San Jose State University, who starts May 30 at chipmaker Linear Technology (NasdaqGS:LLTC - News).

Cyber-school students: Pentagon snubs our service (AP) Posted: 09 May 2011 01:12 AM PDT AP - Students graduating from the growing ranks of online high schools are running into a hurdle if their goal is to join the military: The Pentagon doesn't want many recruits with non-traditional diplomas.

20 Most Useful College Majors (The Daily Beast) Posted: 08 May 2011 08:04 PM PDT The Daily Beast - With college graduation ceremonies just weeks away, The Daily Beast tallies the statistics to figure out which majors—from engineering to mathematics—are most valuable.

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