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• Philly teachers get resourceful amid budget cuts
• Conservative and Same-Sex Colleges to Transgender Students: Welcome
• Colleges re-thinking sexual assault education
• 2015 Best Colleges Preview: Top 10 National Liberal Arts Colleges
• California students rushed to hospital after eating pot-laced cookies
• Contentious California gubernatorial debate turns to insults
• ACLU Targets Florida Single-Sex Classrooms

Philly teachers get resourceful amid budget cuts Posted: 05 Sep 2014 04:07 PM PDT Thousands of Philadelphia students return to school Monday and their teachers are hard at work preparing for the new school year, despite dire budget cuts.

Conservative and Same-Sex Colleges to Transgender Students: Welcome Posted: 05 Sep 2014 02:49 PM PDT When Jayce Marcus wanted to move into the on-campus dorms at a Quaker-founded college in Oregon earlier this year, he expected to be admitted into the male housing unit. Although some media outlets pointed to Marcus' medical and legal transition to the male gender, for LGBT advocates this point is irrelevant—if Marcus identifies himself as a male, then he should be treated as such. "Students deserve to exist in a place where the wholeness of their being is affirmed," said Samantha Master, youth and campus engagement manager for the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. Although George Fox University ultimately secured a religious exemption for their discrimination of Marcus, most schools aren't looking for a way out of accommodating the trans community.

Colleges re-thinking sexual assault education Posted: 05 Sep 2014 11:15 AM PDT BALTIMORE (AP) — As freshmen descend on college campuses, they enter the "red zone" — a period between Labor Day and Thanksgiving during which they are most vulnerable to sexual assault.

2015 Best Colleges Preview: Top 10 National Liberal Arts Colleges Posted: 05 Sep 2014 05:30 AM PDT Applying to college is a journey that involves finding the right school, submitting applications and then -- if you're lucky -- choosing among the acceptance letters and financial aid awards to find that place you'll call home for the next few years.

California students rushed to hospital after eating pot-laced cookies Posted: 04 Sep 2014 10:32 PM PDT Two California high school students were rushed to a hospital and three others were sickened on Thursday after eating marijuana-laced cookies that a classmate was selling during the lunch hour, police said. One of the students at De Anza High School in Richmond, about 17 miles northeast of San Francisco, collapsed in a classroom, while the other made it to the school office before being rushed to the hospital, said Richmond Police Department Lieutenant Al Walle. Both students were unconscious, unresponsive and in critical condition when they were taken to the hospital, police said. Three other students became nauseous after eating the cookies, but were not hospitalized, police said.

Contentious California gubernatorial debate turns to insults Posted: 04 Sep 2014 08:36 PM PDT By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - The debate between Democratic California Governor Jerry Brown and his long-shot Republican opponent quickly turned to insults on Thursday, kicking off the state's election season with disagreements over education, high-speed rail and immigration. Brown said he would sign a ban on single-use plastic grocery bags passed last week by the state legislature, an environmentalist-backed effort that Kashkari ridiculed, along with other recent bills he had supported restricting full-on tackle football practices for middle- and high-school students to avoid concussions and a measure allowing dogs on restaurant patios.

ACLU Targets Florida Single-Sex Classrooms Posted: 04 Sep 2014 07:16 PM PDT The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, with the national group in support, has filed civil rights complaints with the Department of Education against schools in three Florida counties over experimental programs that allow for sex-segregated classrooms. The programs involved are limited to a handful of schools and are optional, but the ACLU says that doesn't make them any more acceptable under Title IX, the federal law banning sex discrimination in schools receiving federal funds. "School districts are spending tens of thousands of dollars training teachers that boys and girls are so different that they have to be taught separately using radically different teaching methods," said ACLU attorney Amy L. Katz in a statement. Galen Sherwin, a senior staff attorney with the ACLU's Women's Rights Project, told The Daily Caller News Foundation that the educational approaches taken by single-sex classrooms were entrenching stereotypes.

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