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• Armed man near school fatally shot by Wash. police (AP)
• Obama: Kids, economy gain from new education plan (AP)
• Obama links education reform to economic recovery (Reuters)
• Calif. Muslim students guilty of disrupting speech (AP)
• No Child Left Behind: with waivers, Obama offers states flexibility (The Christian Science Monitor)

Armed man near school fatally shot by Wash. police (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2011 05:24 PM PDT AP - A man armed with two guns repeatedly opened fire near a high school where students were attending games Saturday, sending children and their parents running for cover under the bleachers before police arrived and killed him, authorities said.

Obama: Kids, economy gain from new education plan (AP) Posted: 24 Sep 2011 07:45 AM PDT AP - President Barack Obama says kids and the economy will benefit from the changes he's making in education policy and his plan to spend billions to upgrade schools and keep teachers on the job.

Obama links education reform to economic recovery (Reuters) Posted: 24 Sep 2011 03:15 AM PDT Reuters - Young people in the United States are falling behind their overseas peers in reading, math and science, President Barack Obama said on Saturday, calling education reform an essential part of economic recovery.

Calif. Muslim students guilty of disrupting speech (AP) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 06:04 PM PDT AP - A jury convicted 10 Muslim students Friday of disrupting a talk by the Israeli ambassador on a university campus in a case that has stoked an intense debate about free speech.

No Child Left Behind: with waivers, Obama offers states flexibility (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 23 Sep 2011 11:46 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama today unveiled a sweeping plan to give states the flexibility they have been clamoring for under the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) education law.

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