Yahoo! News: Education News

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• Education makes political comeback in Washington (AP)
• Florida school scrambles to retrieve prizes with racy images (Reuters)
• Education Policy and Republican Frontrunners Mitt Romney and Herman Cain (ContributorNetwork)
• Can new No Child Left Behind law pass before 2012 elections? (The Christian Science Monitor)
• In Yemen, schools become hostages of rising crisis (Reuters)
• Americans Now Owe More Than $1 Trillion in Student Loans (The Atlantic Wire)
• School discipline changes move forward in Colo. (AP)
• Senate votes for unlimited potatoes in schools (AP)

Education makes political comeback in Washington (AP) Posted: 19 Oct 2011 03:06 PM PDT AP - A rare show of bipartisanship in a divided Congress produced a deal to fix an education law long considered flawed, until a single senator stalled progress Wednesday.

Florida school scrambles to retrieve prizes with racy images (Reuters) Posted: 19 Oct 2011 02:56 PM PDT Reuters - School administrators hoping to reward students for their A+ fund-raising efforts at a Florida elementary school unwittingly gave them X-rated gifts, officials said.

Education Policy and Republican Frontrunners Mitt Romney and Herman Cain (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:06 AM PDT ContributorNetwork - A new CNN poll shows Republican presidential nomination candidates Mitt Romney and Herman Cain in a dead heat to lead the GOP pack. Romney, Cain and the other GOP contenders will continue their series of debates October 18 in Las Vegas. Prior debates have focused on Republicans' core issues: improving the economy, restructuring the tax code and undoing President Obama's healthcare overhaul. But one burning issue about which the GOP candidates have kept mostly quiet is the implementation of education reforms at the state level.

Can new No Child Left Behind law pass before 2012 elections? (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 19 Oct 2011 09:12 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Everyone agrees that No Child Left Behind should be reauthorized. But agreement on what a revised bill would look like has so far proved an unreachable hurdle.

In Yemen, schools become hostages of rising crisis (Reuters) Posted: 19 Oct 2011 07:06 AM PDT Reuters - The playground of Aden's al-Haqqani school should be filled with squealing children at this time of year -- instead, goats pick through the brittle grass as young men doze atop crumbling school desks strewn across the yard.

Americans Now Owe More Than $1 Trillion in Student Loans (The Atlantic Wire) Posted: 19 Oct 2011 07:00 AM PDT The Atlantic Wire -

School discipline changes move forward in Colo. (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 06:15 PM PDT AP - Post-Columbine school disciplinary policies that Colorado lawmakers say lead to mandatory expulsions for things like inadvertently having a butter knife in a backpack are facing an overhaul, under a proposal given preliminary approval Tuesday.

Senate votes for unlimited potatoes in schools (AP) Posted: 18 Oct 2011 05:38 PM PDT AP - The Senate threw its support behind the potato Tuesday, voting to block an Obama administration proposal to limit the vegetable on school lunch lines.

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