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• Texas school bus crash sends 32 to hospital (AP)
• Michigan School District Might Ban Two Books (ContributorNetwork)
• Police: Conn. school pool drowning was accident (AP)
• Final plea in NY drug ring case on Columbia campus (AP)
• Santorum on defense over votes in Congress (AP)
• NYC to Open Its First Software Engineering High School (Mashable)

Texas school bus crash sends 32 to hospital (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 07:11 PM PST AP - A tractor-trailer clipped a school bus full of students Tuesday, flipping the bus onto its side and sending 32 people — 29 of them children — to a central Texas hospital. Police said a 9-year-old boy was ejected through the escape hatch in the bus roof, and the bus driver was knocked unconscious.

Michigan School District Might Ban Two Books (ContributorNetwork) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 01:36 PM PST ContributorNetwork - Plymouth-Canton Community School, a district near Detroit, has been wrestling with a decision to ban two books from its high school AP English program. A husband and wife objected to Toni Morrison's Pulitzer winner "Beloved" and Graham Swift's "Waterland," Michigan Radio reports. Here are details about this debate.

Police: Conn. school pool drowning was accident (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 10:40 AM PST AP - Police say a Connecticut teen who drowned in his school's swimming pool was participating in a supervised swim class when someone found him unconscious in the deep end.

Final plea in NY drug ring case on Columbia campus (AP) Posted: 17 Jan 2012 10:19 AM PST AP - A student accused of selling LSD at Columbia University pleaded guilty Tuesday to attempted drug possession, resolving the last case in a takedown of a drug ring on the Ivy League campus.

Santorum on defense over votes in Congress (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 06:44 PM PST AP - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is on the defensive against criticism for his votes supporting President George W. Bush's "No Child Left Behind" law and his rejection of anti-union legislation.

NYC to Open Its First Software Engineering High School (Mashable) Posted: 16 Jan 2012 08:25 AM PST Mashable - New York City is taking another step toward becoming Silicon Alley -- the East Coast's own tech hub -- with the grand opening of the city's first software engineering-specialized high school. Class at Software Engineering Academy will be in session for 400 to 500 ninth graders this September.

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