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• Glitches prompt suspension of Oklahoma tests again
• Prosecutors: Prep school graduates ran drug ring
• US sends salvage ship to help with S.Korea ferry disaster
• South Korean President Calls Ferry Crew's Actions Murderous
• The Stupid War on the Common Core
• AP Top News at 4:52 a.m. EDT

Glitches prompt suspension of Oklahoma tests again Posted: 21 Apr 2014 02:49 PM PDT OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's public schools superintendent suspended online testing across the state on Monday after middle and high school students systemwide experienced disruptions during high-stakes standardized tests for the second consecutive year.

Prosecutors: Prep school graduates ran drug ring Posted: 21 Apr 2014 02:32 PM PDT ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) — Two prep school graduates sought to use their sports connections and business acumen to establish a monopoly on drug sales to high school students in the affluent Main Line suburbs of Philadelphia, authorities said Monday.

US sends salvage ship to help with S.Korea ferry disaster Posted: 21 Apr 2014 10:22 AM PDT The United States is sending a Navy salvage ship to help South Korea with the recovery of the ferry that capsized last week, the Pentagon said Monday. South Korea has not formally requested the ship, but the USNS Safeguard was being moved from Thailand toward South Korea in case it does, Pentagon spokesman Colonel Steve Warren said. An amphibious assault ship, the USS Bonhomme Richard, is already taking part in rescue operations off the southwestern coast where the Sewol sank on Wednesday with 476 people aboard, including 352 high school students on a holiday trip.

South Korean President Calls Ferry Crew's Actions Murderous Posted: 21 Apr 2014 04:31 AM PDT South Korean President Park Geun-hye said on Monday that the actions of the crew members of a ferry that sank last week with 476 people on board were "like an act of murder." Five days after the boat capsized, divers continue to search for the 238 missing passengers, most of them high-school students, who are now presumed dead. So far, seven members of the crew — including captain Captain Lee Joon-seok — have been arrested for their role in the disaster.

The Stupid War on the Common Core Posted: 21 Apr 2014 02:45 AM PDT An unholy alliance between the Tea Party and the teachers' unions threatens to derail the most promising education reform in decades.

AP Top News at 4:52 a.m. EDT Posted: 20 Apr 2014 01:52 AM PDT MOKPO, South Korea (AP) — The confirmed death toll from South Korea's ferry disaster rose past 50 on Sunday as divers finally found a way inside the sunken vessel, quickly discovering more than a dozen bodies in what almost certainly is just the beginning of a massive and grim recovery effort. About 250 people are still missing from the ship, the vast majority of them high school students who had been on a holiday trip. Anguished families, waiting on a nearby island and fearful they might be left without even their loved ones' bodies, have vented their fury, blocking the prime minister's car during a visit and attempting a long protest march to the presidential Blue House.

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