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• Senate committee examines Bush-era education law
• Jail for 9 of 10 ex-educators in Atlanta test-cheating case
• New law reduces testing at Florida public schools
• Prison sentences for eight former Atlanta educators in test-cheating scandal
• Somali Shebab kill 15 in education ministry attack
• Singapore high school maths problem stumps the Internet
• 10 ex-educators sentenced in Atlanta schools cheating case; 9 get jail time; 2 accept deals
• Delhi's stressed-out teachers reject meditation courses
• Somali Islamist group say attacked ministries in capital
• Suspected Islamist bombers attack Somali ministry: police
• Obamacare's Cadillac Tax Hits the College Campus
• Hit by school violence, Colorado mulls districts' liability
• Washington state school district removes 143 students over vaccine law

Senate committee examines Bush-era education law Posted: 14 Apr 2015 04:42 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate committee began debating legislation Tuesday that attempts to fix the much-maligned No Child Left Behind education law by giving states more control in determining how to hold public schools accountable for student performance.

Jail for 9 of 10 ex-educators in Atlanta test-cheating case Posted: 14 Apr 2015 04:24 PM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — All but one of 10 former Atlanta public school educators convicted in a widespread conspiracy to inflate student scores on standardized tests were sentenced to jail time Tuesday, and the judge called the cheating scandal "the sickest thing that's ever happened in this town."

New law reduces testing at Florida public schools Posted: 14 Apr 2015 02:21 PM PDT By Bill Cotterell TALLAHASSEE (Reuters) - Governor Rick Scott signed legislation rolling back testing in Florida public schools on Tuesday but said the new law was no rebuke to former governor and possible presidential candidate, Jeb Bush, who championed school grading and student testing 16 years ago.

Prison sentences for eight former Atlanta educators in test-cheating scandal Posted: 14 Apr 2015 01:06 PM PDT By David Beasley ATLANTA (Reuters) - Eight former Atlanta public school educators were ordered on Tuesday to serve between one and seven years in prison for their convictions on racketeering charges in one of the nation's largest test-cheating scandals. The lengthy prison sentences, unusual for educators, contrasted to the treatment of two defendants in the case also found guilty by a jury this month. Superior Court Judge Jerry Baxter gave three of the 11 educators convicted in the scandal 20-year sentences, with seven years to be served in prison and the rest on probation.

Somali Shebab kill 15 in education ministry attack Posted: 14 Apr 2015 12:06 PM PDT Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab militants on Tuesday blasted their way into the higher education ministry with a car bomb before storming the building, killing 15 people. Police and witnesses said the car bomb caused a huge explosion which allowed the gunmen to force their way into the fortified building. Six Shebab gunmen were also killed, with two of those blowing themselves up, internal security ministry spokesman Mohamed Yusuf Osman said. Abdukadir Abdirahman Adan, head of Mogadishu's Ambulance Services, told reporters his crews had taken about 15 dead bodies and 20 wounded civilians to hospital.

Singapore high school maths problem stumps the Internet Posted: 14 Apr 2015 10:17 AM PDT A maths problem that first appeared in a test for Singapore's elite high school students has baffled Internet users around the world after it went viral, prompting a rush of attempts to solve it. The question, involving a girl asking two boys to guess her birthday after giving them scant clues, first appeared in an April 8 test organised by the Singapore and Asian School Math Olympiads (SASMO). It was meant for 15- and 16-year-old elite secondary school students, but swiftly went global after a local television news presenter posted it on his Facebook page Saturday. In the question, Cheryl gives her new friends Albert and Bernard 10 possible dates when they enquired about her birthday, before separately giving each of them further clues.

10 ex-educators sentenced in Atlanta schools cheating case; 9 get jail time; 2 accept deals Posted: 14 Apr 2015 09:18 AM PDT ATLANTA (AP) — 10 ex-educators sentenced in Atlanta schools cheating case; 9 get jail time; 2 accept deals.

Delhi's stressed-out teachers reject meditation courses Posted: 14 Apr 2015 07:22 AM PDT A plan by authorities in New Delhi to send stressed-out teachers on free meditation courses has backfired after they said they would rather the money was spent on improving the Indian capital's crumbling schools. Delhi's new government said Monday it would send the city's school teachers on 10-day courses in Vipassana and Anapan -- forms of silent meditation intended to induce calm. "Most still have serious electricity supply issues and bad toilets for students... The government should first focus its spending on providing basic school infrastructure." Delhi's populist new chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is a regular practitioner of Vipassana, which originated in India but has become fashionable in the West in recent years. "What we plan to waste here can instead be used to benefit, improve at least 50 (government) schools for both teachers and students," Singh said.

Somali Islamist group say attacked ministries in capital Posted: 14 Apr 2015 03:28 AM PDT Somali Islamist group al Shabaab was behind an attack on a government building in Mogadishu on Tuesday that houses the Higher Education and Petroleum Ministries, a spokesman from the group said. "We are inside and fighting goes on," Sheikh Abdiasis Abu Musab, al Shabaab's military operations spokesman, told Reuters after attackers set off two blasts before gunmen stormed inside. Police and government officials confirmed that the Petroleum and Minerals Ministry was in the same building as the Higher Education Ministry.

Suspected Islamist bombers attack Somali ministry: police Posted: 14 Apr 2015 02:49 AM PDT MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Suspected Islamist attackers set off bombs at Somalia's Higher Education Ministry building in the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday and gunmen stormed inside, a police officer said. Major Ali Nur, a police officer, told Reuters he had seen one dead civilian and five injured, but said it was too early know full casualty figures. There was no immediate comment from the Islamist group al Shabaab which frequently stages attacks.

Obamacare's Cadillac Tax Hits the College Campus Posted: 14 Apr 2015 02:15 AM PDT Higher education and its comfortable inhabitants on campus have long been hotbeds of support for Obama and Obamacare. Now, along with business and labor, i.e., the other inhabitants of what passes for the real world, they are about to become victims of one of its high "Cadillac" tax on generous health plans. In 2009 President Obama gave assurances that he did not want any tax on health insurance plans he considered wasteful or too generous to affect average Americans.

Hit by school violence, Colorado mulls districts' liability Posted: 14 Apr 2015 12:09 AM PDT DENVER (AP) — A novel approach to make public schools liable for campus violence under a measure is advancing in Colorado, even as lawmakers from both parties wonder whether liability will prevent the next mass shooting.

Washington state school district removes 143 students over vaccine law Posted: 13 Apr 2015 08:10 PM PDT By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE (Reuters) - A Washington state school district pulled 143 students who lacked documentation proving they had received required immunizations from classrooms on Monday, in a first-in-the-state clamp-down triggered by a recent measles epidemic. The Spokane Public Schools, the state's second-largest district, made the decision after a measles epidemic in which more than 150 people fell ill across the United States, and a whooping cough outbreak in the state's eastern city. "(The students) stay out of school until they show compliance," district spokesman Kevin Morrison said. All U.S. states require certain vaccines for students for diseases such as mumps, rubella, tetanus or polio, but school immunization laws grant exemptions to children for medical reasons, including an inhibited immune system.

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