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• Idaho inmates settle lawsuit over prison violence (AP)
• Lawyer: Colo. school shooting suspect mentally ill (AP)
• NC school district wins $550,000 Broad prize (AP)
• Correction: BC-US--University-Fatal Stabbing story (AP)
• Spanish schools hit by strike over staffing cuts (AP)
• Federal court reviewing Arkansas desegregation funding case (Reuters)

Idaho inmates settle lawsuit over prison violence (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 03:22 PM PDT AP - A potential class-action lawsuit against the nation's largest private prison company over allegations of violence at the Idaho Correctional Center has been settled in federal court.

Lawyer: Colo. school shooting suspect mentally ill (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 12:27 PM PDT AP - An attorney for a man charged with shooting two Colorado eighth graders at a middle school that's just miles from the site of one of the nation's deadliest school shootings told jurors Tuesday her client has struggled with imaginary voices for years.

NC school district wins $550,000 Broad prize (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 09:03 AM PDT AP - North Carolina's Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district has won a prestigious prize in public education, which will provide $550,000 in college scholarships for needy students.

Correction: BC-US--University-Fatal Stabbing story (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 08:15 AM PDT AP - In a Sept. 16 story about a killing on a Maryland college campus, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the victim, Dominique Frazier, was two days shy of her 19th birthday. She actually died three days before..

Spanish schools hit by strike over staffing cuts (AP) Posted: 20 Sep 2011 06:07 AM PDT AP - Thousands of public school teachers went on strike Tuesday in Madrid to protest staff cuts as anger over government austerity measures spread to Spain's education system.

Federal court reviewing Arkansas desegregation funding case (Reuters) Posted: 19 Sep 2011 07:19 PM PDT Reuters - A federal appeals court began reviewing a lower court order on Monday that would end state payments to Arkansas public schools that began over two decades ago to aid in desegregation efforts.

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