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Man convicted in San Diego-area school shooting (AP)
Minn. district settles suits on neutrality policy (AP)
NY school linked to Va. bus crash loses license (AP)
Prayer banner at RI high school taken down (AP)
Florida parents could decide school fate under pending bill (Reuters)
Colorado court says students can carry guns on university (Reuters)
Consumer agency takes student loan complaints (AP)
Teen wounded in Ohio shooting transferred to rehab (AP)

Man convicted in San Diego-area school shooting (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 05:03 PM PST

AP - A jury deliberated about an hour before convicting a man of attempted murder for repeatedly firing his gun at a San Diego-area elementary school.

Minn. district settles suits on neutrality policy (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 04:23 PM PST

AP - Minnesota's largest school district on Monday voted to settle federal lawsuits over a policy that was criticized for failing to protect students from bullying.

NY school linked to Va. bus crash loses license (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 03:30 PM PST

AP - New York state has suspended the license of a driving school linked to a bus crash that killed four people in Virginia last year.

Prayer banner at RI high school taken down (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 02:53 PM PST

AP - Officials at a Rhode Island public high school have taken down a prayer banner that a federal judge ordered removed.

Florida parents could decide school fate under pending bill (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 01:29 PM PST

Reuters - Florida has become the latest battleground state in a movement to let parents leap-frog over their elected school boards and decide the fate of schools that fail to make the grade.

Colorado court says students can carry guns on university (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 12:25 PM PST

Reuters - The Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday that students and employees with concealed weapon permits can carry handguns on University of Colorado campuses, overturning a ban by the school's regents.

Consumer agency takes student loan complaints (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 11:01 AM PST

AP - The government's new consumer protection agency started accepting complaints Monday about student loans.

Teen wounded in Ohio shooting transferred to rehab (AP)

Posted: 05 Mar 2012 09:32 AM PST

AP - A teenager wounded in last week's Ohio school shooting in which three students were killed has been transferred to a rehabilitation unit.