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• Obama visits Florida ahead of bellwether special election
• Kansas high court: School funding unconstitutional
• Kansas High Court Says the State's Public School Funding Is Unconstitutional
• Obama urges students to file financial aid form
• Kansas violating state constitution in school funding, court says
• 5 things to know about Kansas school funding fight
• 6 Great Jobs You Can Get With an Online Degree
• India's anti-graft party takes aim at Modi's economic model
• Parent Trap: Teen Sues Parents for College Tuition
• Lawmaker Accuses Republicans of Secretly Wanting to Abort Biracial Babies

Obama visits Florida ahead of bellwether special election Posted: 07 Mar 2014 03:47 PM PST By Roberta Rampton MIAMI (Reuters) - President Barack Obama gave a feel-good campaign-style speech at a gymnasium packed with screaming high school students on Friday, sketching out the main points of his populist agenda ahead of a special election in Florida on Tuesday. Obama did not mention the race for the House of Representatives seat that had been held by the late Republican Bill Young in a congressional district that includes St. Petersburg, a city north of Miami. The White House said it was a coincidence that his speech came just before the election. Obama and his family plan to spend the rest of his weekend in Florida, at a lush Key Largo private resort.

Kansas high court: School funding unconstitutional Posted: 07 Mar 2014 03:31 PM PST TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas must spend more money on its public schools, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday in a decision that could jeopardize Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's desire to make his state a tax-cutting template for the nation.

Kansas High Court Says the State's Public School Funding Is Unconstitutional Posted: 07 Mar 2014 01:05 PM PST Kansas's public school funding is unconstitutionally disparate between districts, according to a Friday ruling from the state Supreme Court that will require the state to increase public school funding. Although the court didn't tell the state exactly how much more it had to spend to meet the basic education needs of every student in the state, a Department of Education official estimated to the AP that Kansas needs to add at least $129 million in funding to poorer districts to its statewide $3 billion school budget for next year. If the state legislature doesn't fix the gap by July 1st, a lower court will intervene.  The ruling pertains to cuts in school funding from 2010 to 2012.

Obama urges students to file financial aid form Posted: 07 Mar 2014 12:30 PM PST MIAMI (AP) — President Barack Obama says education is the best investment in America's future, and he's urging high school students to make sure they file for federal financial aid.

Kansas violating state constitution in school funding, court says Posted: 07 Mar 2014 11:16 AM PST Kansas is violating the state constitution in its funding of public schools, a duty that is mandatory and not to be left to the whims of state legislators, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The court has given the Kansas legislature until July 1 to fully fund its obligations for state school funding for the next year. "This is a great win for Kansas kids," said attorney John Robb, who represents the school districts, parents and students who brought the case. "It means that the constitution actually has meaning for kids in Kansas." But while the court upheld part of a lower court finding in favor of a group of public school districts claiming the state should provide more money for education, the court also reversed part of that lower court ruling.

5 things to know about Kansas school funding fight Posted: 07 Mar 2014 10:44 AM PST The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state is not spending enough money on its public schools, ordering an increase in two types of aid by July 1 and more lower-court hearings on how much the ...

6 Great Jobs You Can Get With an Online Degree Posted: 07 Mar 2014 09:22 AM PST For adults juggling jobs and family commitments, earning a degree can seem like a Herculean task. "Online learning can do two things: It can lead to advancement in an existing profession, or it can lead to a completely new profession," says Leah K. Matthews, executive director of the Accrediting Commission of the nonprofit Distance Education and Training Council. The following six jobs were pulled from U.S. News & World Report's 100 Best Jobs of 201 4 rankings. They earned high marks for employment opportunity, salary, work-life balance and job security, among other factors.

India's anti-graft party takes aim at Modi's economic model Posted: 07 Mar 2014 05:07 AM PST By Sruthi Gottipati NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian opposition politician Narendra Modi, who leads opinion polls ahead of next month's general election, faces pressure from a small anti-graft party attacking his economic model on his home turf, the thriving state of Gujarat. The pro-business leader has presided over rapid economic growth during more than 12 years as the chief minister of the coastal state, and slashed red tape to attract companies such as Ford, Maruti Suzuki and Tata Motors. Now, Modi promises to replicate his state's development model nationwide if he becomes prime minister. But Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party, on Friday said small businesses in the state were being shuttered, public schools and health services were in poor shape and claims of regular supplies of electricity were not true.

Parent Trap: Teen Sues Parents for College Tuition Posted: 07 Mar 2014 02:30 AM PST Beyond the legalities, it has many talking about the moral and ethical obligations parents have (or don't have) when it comes to paying for their children's college education. Still, more than 60 percent of young adults (ages 19 to 22) receive some financial help from their parents, with 35 percent receiving tuition assistance, according to a 2012 study from of the University of Michigan.

Lawmaker Accuses Republicans of Secretly Wanting to Abort Biracial Babies Posted: 06 Mar 2014 05:40 PM PST After Alabama lawmakers passed four antiabortion bills this week, one African American Democrat turned to an unusual form of race-baiting, telling his white Republican colleagues that they'd feel differently about the procedure if their daughters were pregnant with a black man's baby. "Ninety-nine percent of all of the white people in here are going to raise their hand that they are against abortion," state Rep. Alvin Holmes, D-Montgomery, said on the floor, as recorded by AL.com. The topic turned to race soon after Rep. Mary Sue McClurkin, R–Indiana Springs, the author of one antiabortion bill, compared her legislation to Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that desegregated public schools by ruling that separate is not equal. The 1954 ruling resulted in social tumult in Alabama and other Southern states and is believed to have helped usher in the civil rights movement.  The Alabama Department of Public Health, at the behest of pro-life organizations, issued a closure order in 2012 demanding the closure of the New Women All Women abortion clinic in Birmingham, one of the last clinics in the state.

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