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• Engaged pair, teen athlete among dead in bus crash
• Couple: Truck was on fire before deadly bus crash
• Calif. crash probe includes limiting bus fires
• California school bus crash: Looking for answers in tragedy
• Chicago Teachers Union to Mayor Rahm: Improving failed schools full of black kids is RACIST
• Rights group welcomes Saudi end to girls' sports ban

Engaged pair, teen athlete among dead in bus crash Posted: 12 Apr 2014 03:19 PM PDT LOS ANGELES (AP) — Five high school students and three chaperones have been confirmed dead or are unaccounted for after a charter bus heading to Humboldt State University was struck by a FedEx tractor-trailer in Northern California. The bus and big rig drivers were killed, but their identities have not been released.

Couple: Truck was on fire before deadly bus crash Posted: 12 Apr 2014 01:46 PM PDT ORLAND, Calif. (AP) — A couple said a FedEx tractor-trailer was already on fire when it careened across a median, sideswiped their car and slammed into a bus carrying high school students, adding a new twist to the investigation of a crash that killed 10 people.

Calif. crash probe includes limiting bus fires Posted: 12 Apr 2014 12:44 PM PDT ORLAND, Calif. (AP) — A couple said a FedEx tractor-trailer was already on fire when it careened across a median, sideswiped their car and slammed into a bus carrying high school students, adding a new twist to the investigation of a crash that killed 10 people.

California school bus crash: Looking for answers in tragedy Posted: 12 Apr 2014 11:48 AM PDT Transportation safety officials say it could be weeks before they know the cause of the collision between a FedEx tractor-trailer and a bus that took 10 lives, half of them Los Angeles-area high school students on their way to visit the college in northern California where they hoped to continue their education. Even then, why the FedEx truck – which was hauling two heavy trailers – crossed a grassy median as it traveled south along I-5, slamming head-on into the bus and bursting into flames, may remain unclear. "We don't know whether the FedEx driver had fallen asleep, whether he experienced a mechanical failure with his vehicle or whether there was a separate collision on the southbound side that caused him to lose control," said Lieutenant Scott Fredrick, lead investigator for the California Highway Patrol. One eye witness said the truck already was in flames before it smashed into the bus, which was headed north along California's main north-south interstate highway midway between Sacramento and the Oregon border.

Chicago Teachers Union to Mayor Rahm: Improving failed schools full of black kids is RACIST Posted: 12 Apr 2014 09:18 AM PDT In late March, the Chicago Board of Education announced an ambitious plan to implement its "turnaround" model for three low-performing elementary schools in poor, predominantly black neighborhoods. The turnaround process involves the sacking of every teacher and staffer at each of the schools, according to an email from the Chicago Teachers Union obtained by The Daily Caller. Still reeling from the closure of 50 schools in 2013, embattled Chicago Teachers Union Karen Lewis called the turnaround plan "a slap in the face to those of us who are attempting to negotiate for more resources" and "nothing more than school closings by another name." The email from the teachers union also suggested that the effort to improve the schools is an effort spearheaded by Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett to damage black children and black families.

Rights group welcomes Saudi end to girls' sports ban Posted: 12 Apr 2014 06:45 AM PDT Human Rights Watch welcomed Saturday a recommendation by Saudi Arabia's consultative Shura Council to lift the ban on sports in girls' state schools. On Tuesday, the council recommended that the longstanding ban, relaxed in private schools last year, be ended altogether, state media in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom reported. All education in Saudi Arabia is single-sex, but sports in girls schools remains a sensitive issue in a country where women have to cover from head to toe when in public. "Saudi Arabia has a long way to go to end discriminatory practices against women, but allowing girls to play sports in government schools would move the ball down the field in ways that could have major long-term impact," HRW's Sarah Leah Whitson said.

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