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- Newtown teachers want continued mental health funding
- Power restored after massive outage hits downtown Detroit
- Despite Controversy Over Transgender High School Athletes, Feds Say They Can Play
- Five college students plead not guilty to gang rape on NJ campus
- Calif. lawmakers push higher education changes
- More than 2,200 NYC school computers missing, unused: comptroller
| Newtown teachers want continued mental health funding Posted: 02 Dec 2014 03:45 PM PST
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| Power restored after massive outage hits downtown Detroit Posted: 02 Dec 2014 02:59 PM PST By Serena Maria Daniels DETROIT (Reuters) - A massive outage on Tuesday cut power for as long as six hours to public buildings in Detroit ranging from city hall to a criminal courthouse, scores of public schools and more than three dozen buildings at Wayne State University, officials said. The outage in the city-run system that distributes power to the public buildings was another black eye for Detroit, which won court approval in November to exit the biggest U.S. municipal bankruptcy. ... |
| Despite Controversy Over Transgender High School Athletes, Feds Say They Can Play Posted: 02 Dec 2014 02:05 PM PST A controversial plan to let transgender high school students play on sports teams according to their gender identity got a little boost from the federal government on Monday. |
| Five college students plead not guilty to gang rape on NJ campus Posted: 02 Dec 2014 12:21 PM PST By Sascha Brodsky PATERSON, N.J. (Reuters) - Five college students accused of gang-raping a female fellow student in a New Jersey dorm room pleaded not guilty on Tuesday, in the latest in a series of sexual assaults and harassment incidents prompting colleges to reexamine conduct policies. The five men blocked a dorm room doorway at William Paterson University in Wayne, and restrained and demanded sex from the woman on Nov. 25, when the campus had largely emptied out for the Thanksgiving break, according to the criminal complaint. ... |
| Calif. lawmakers push higher education changes Posted: 02 Dec 2014 11:24 AM PST Democrats in the state Senate released a plan Tuesday to avoid tuition increases at the University of California by directing more money to the system and charging a higher rate to out-of-state students. ... |
| More than 2,200 NYC school computers missing, unused: comptroller Posted: 02 Dec 2014 10:33 AM PST By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - More than 2,200 computers purchased for New York City schools are missing or stashed away in closets and never used, according to an audit released by the city comptroller on Tuesday. The audit of the New York City Department of Education sampled only nine of more than 1,700 city schools and one administration building, sparking fears that millions of dollars worth of devices are unaccounted for citywide, Comptroller Scott Stringer said in a statement. ... |
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