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• Judge blocks Colorado school voucher program (AP)
• Ind. teen gets 30 years for shooting classmate (AP)
• YouTube sensation Rebecca Black bullied at school, starts homeschooling (Digital Trends)
• Maine school finds Chinese recruiting a tough sell (AP)
• Travel Picks: Top 10 university student destinations (Reuters)

Judge blocks Colorado school voucher program (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2011 05:00 PM PDT AP - A Denver judge blocked Colorado's first school voucher program Friday, calling the program to give parents in the state's wealthiest county checks for tuition at religious schools a "substantial disservice to the public interest."

Ind. teen gets 30 years for shooting classmate (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2011 04:26 PM PDT AP - A central Indiana teenager convicted of shooting a former middle school classmate was sentenced to 30 years in prison Friday by a judge who told him the shooting just inside a school entrance "stole the innocence of this community."

YouTube sensation Rebecca Black bullied at school, starts homeschooling (Digital Trends) Posted: 12 Aug 2011 04:22 PM PDT Digital Trends - If you haven’t seen Rebecca Black’s video Friday then you might be in the minority of internet users. Her official YouTube video received 167 million views, and she became an instant star. The popularity of the song was mostly fueled by people making fun of the song, and countless parody videos. Due to constant bullying at school, mostly due to the song’s popularity, Black decided to leave her public school and start home schooling.

Maine school finds Chinese recruiting a tough sell (AP) Posted: 12 Aug 2011 11:30 AM PDT AP - A school district in the deep woods of Maine that sought out Chinese students to help boost its enrollment and its finances fell far short of its ambitious goal of bringing in 60 students.

Travel Picks: Top 10 university student destinations (Reuters) Posted: 12 Aug 2011 04:24 AM PDT Reuters - It's summer holidays and that means university students around the world are working and traveling for adventure and experience. In the spirit of youthful exploration online travel adviser Cheapflights.com (www.cheapflights.com) offers its top 10 year-round list of destinations for scholars on a budget. Reuters has not endorsed this list:

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