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• 3 shot outside Pittsburgh school; drug link probed
• 3 students shot outside Pittsburgh high school
• Tuition freeze proposed for University of California undergrads
• Los Angeles school board looks at laptops after troubled iPad rollout

3 shot outside Pittsburgh school; drug link probed Posted: 13 Nov 2013 02:57 PM PST PITTSBURGH (AP) — Three Pittsburgh high school students heading to their vehicle after classes ended were shot Wednesday afternoon, and police investigating whether the shooting stemmed from a drug-related dispute had six people in custody for questioning, school and police officials said.

3 students shot outside Pittsburgh high school Posted: 13 Nov 2013 01:37 PM PST PITTSBURGH (AP) — Three Pittsburgh high school students heading to their vehicle after classes ended were shot Wednesday afternoon, and police sought as many as three people and were investigating whether the shooting was drug-related, school and police officials said.

Tuition freeze proposed for University of California undergrads Posted: 13 Nov 2013 12:52 PM PST By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO (Reuters) - The new president of the University of California proposed freezing the cost of undergraduate tuition for another year to allow for an overhaul of how to pay for higher education in the state. Janet Napolitano, the former U.S. homeland security chief, announced the proposal on Wednesday, just six weeks after taking over the 10-campus University of California system, saying it would give administrators time to create a tuition system that would be less of a burden on families. California has kept undergraduate tuition steady for the past two years, as politicians wrangled over state funding and families continued to struggle in the recovering economy. "Tuition goes right to the heart of accessibility and affordability -- two of the university's guiding stars," Napolitano said in remarks delivered to university regents in San Francisco.

Los Angeles school board looks at laptops after troubled iPad rollout Posted: 13 Nov 2013 09:42 AM PST By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Los Angeles school board, in the middle of a troubled $1 billion plan to equip each student with an iPad, has voted to try laptops at some high schools before deciding whether to give all its 650,000 pupils a tablet. The Los Angeles Unified School District technology rollout is the largest of its kind for any U.S. public education system. The landmark project ran into problems at the start of this school year when about 300 high school students among an initial 25,000 pupils to get the iPad bypassed its security protocols to access social networking and other websites blocked to them. As a result of that breach, Superintendent John Deasy has temporarily forbidden students from taking the iPads home.

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