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• American Samoa schools reopen after pink eye woes
• Teachers, staff return to Pittsburgh-area school where 22 stabbed
• Teachers return to school where 22 were stabbed
• Colleges seek to improve remedial programs
• Feds revisit safety rules after Calif. bus crash
• Some High School Students Skip Lunch for More Class Time
• Teachers returning to school where 22 were stabbed

American Samoa schools reopen after pink eye woes Posted: 14 Apr 2014 04:55 PM PDT PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) — Public schools in American Samoa fully reopened Monday after some 3,000 students and teachers contracted pink eye, an outbreak that prompted tourism officials to warn cruise passengers heading to the group of islands in the South Pacific.

Teachers, staff return to Pittsburgh-area school where 22 stabbed Posted: 14 Apr 2014 12:39 PM PDT Four critically injured boys remained hospitalized following the attack last Wednesday at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville. A 16-year-old student at the school, Alex Hribal, has been charged as an adult with attempted homicide and aggravated assault. "As we begin our recovery phase, it is imperative that the district begins to create a normal and calm educational environment for our students who are currently on campus and for those who will be returning to Franklin Regional Senior High School," read a statement on the website. Hribal is scheduled to appear in Westmoreland County Magisterial Court on April 30 before Judge Charles Conway.

Teachers return to school where 22 were stabbed Posted: 14 Apr 2014 10:16 AM PDT MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Teachers on Monday attended a counseling session at a church and then returned to a high school where a student stabbed 21 others and a security guard last week, but they scuttled plans to march the half block between the two to avoid the media.

Colleges seek to improve remedial programs Posted: 14 Apr 2014 09:38 AM PDT BALTIMORE (AP) — The odds have long been stacked against students like those in Edward Ennels' remedial math classes at Baltimore City Community College.

Feds revisit safety rules after Calif. bus crash Posted: 14 Apr 2014 06:36 AM PDT RED BLUFF, Calif. (AP) — Federal transportation authorities are investigating ways to minimize death and injuries in bus crashes following the fiery wreck that left 10 dead when a FedEx truck slammed into a tour bus carrying high school students in Northern California.

Some High School Students Skip Lunch for More Class Time Posted: 14 Apr 2014 05:00 AM PDT Some high school students are skipping lunch period to pack in something else -- another academic class. "Most often these students want to take an additional honors or AP course, or an elective like a foreign language, band or choir," Jim Szczepaniak, a community relations director at Niles Township High Schools District 219 in Skokie, Ill., said in an email. District 219 allows high school students, with parental consent, to forgo lunch to take another class. Only about 300 of 4,800 high school students in District 219 don't take a lunch, Szczepaniak says.

Teachers returning to school where 22 were stabbed Posted: 14 Apr 2014 03:06 AM PDT MURRYSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — The doors are reopening at the Pittsburgh-area high school where 21 students and a security guard were injured in a stabbing rampage five days ago.

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