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• Atlanta cheating scandal moves to the courtroom
• Teachers shut down 2 suburban Denver high schools
• Defense, prosecutors preview school cheating cases
• Police probe Miami nightclub shooting where teens, children wounded
• Texas' Strong tells Goodell colleges can do better
• California community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees

Atlanta cheating scandal moves to the courtroom Posted: 29 Sep 2014 04:21 PM PDT Prosecutors on Monday outlined the case against a dozen former principals, teachers, and administrators accused of orchestrating a massive cheating conspiracy in 2009 in Atlanta public schools, as the high-profile trial got under way.

Teachers shut down 2 suburban Denver high schools Posted: 29 Sep 2014 02:29 PM PDT GOLDEN, Colo. (AP) — Hundreds of suburban Denver high school students missed school again Monday as teachers shut down two high schools by calling in sick amid a controversy over proposed changes to an Advanced Placement history class and changes to their pay.

Defense, prosecutors preview school cheating cases Posted: 29 Sep 2014 01:11 PM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — Prosecutors said Monday that 12 former Atlanta Public Schools educators and administrators cheated, lied and stole as part of a widespread but cleverly disguised conspiracy to inflate state test scores that affected thousands of students. Defense attorneys countered in their opening statements that their clients were committed educators but made enemies of former colleagues who are now lying about their involvement in cheating.

Police probe Miami nightclub shooting where teens, children wounded Posted: 29 Sep 2014 01:00 PM PDT By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - Law enforcement and community leaders on Monday struggled to understand how minors, including preteens, were among the 15 shot and wounded early Sunday morning at what police said might have been an unsanctioned nightclub. "Beyond the horrific headline, can anyone tell me what in the world were teens, as young as 11, doing in a club," Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho tweeted. Police and fire rescue officers responded to a shooting at The Spot, in the crime-ridden Liberty City neighborhood, after 1 a.m. ...

Texas' Strong tells Goodell colleges can do better Posted: 29 Sep 2014 12:36 PM PDT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — College football programs need to do a better job of molding players into responsible adults, Texas coach Charlie Strong said Monday, a day after he visited with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

California community colleges to offer baccalaureate degrees Posted: 29 Sep 2014 09:24 AM PDT By Sharon Bernstein SACRAMENTO Calif. (Reuters) - California's two-year colleges would be able to offer baccalaureate degrees under a law signed by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown, who also rejected extra funding for the state's strapped university systems. The law, a pilot program approved Sunday by Brown along with other education-related measures, would allow 15 community colleges to expand programs in job-related fields such as automobile mechanics and dental hygiene to four-year bachelor's degrees from two-year associate's degrees. ...

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