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How San Diego Schools Pushed Themselves to the Precipice of Insolvency

This summer, San Diego Unified School District trustees were asked to make a difficult decision.

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Florence (Ariz.) Schools Fight Bullying Battle

There’s nothing new about the issue of bullies in school. It’s a problem that’s been around since the days of one-room schoolhouses.

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Frederick County (Md.) Schools Refuse to Count Illegal Students

The debate around counting the number of illegal immigrants enrolled in Frederick County schools has flared up — again.

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Senate Votes for Unlimited Potatoes in Schools

The Senate threw its support behind the potato Tuesday, voting to block an Obama administration proposal to limit the vegetable on school lunch lines.

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Finance Reports Shed Light on Denver School-board Race

Finance reports filed Monday by committees involved in the Nov. 1 election show that the Denver teachers union has spent $88,500 on two Denver school-board candidates.

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West Virginia Education Officials Study Year-Round School

The West Virginia Department of Education has formed an internal committee to study whether year-round school would work.

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Senator Alexander Aims to Shape Education Law Overhaul

Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander, a member of the Senate education committee and a former U.S. secretary of education, said that when the panel takes up the legislation this week, he will vote to send it to the full Senate.

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Florida Board of Education Meets to Discuss Standards, Struggling Schools

The Florida Board of Education got a glimpse of continued improvements at Miami Edison Senior High on Tuesday, just three months after board members decided to keep the struggling school and Miami Central Senior High open.

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Career Technology Ed Becomes More Important as Funding Shrinks

At a time when college graduates are struggling to find jobs, employers in vocational fields are struggling to find trained workers.

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N.Y. Regents Set to Alter Rules for Grading State Exams

Teachers in New York State will soon be banned from grading their own students’ state standardized tests, a Board of Regents committee decided on Monday, part of an effort to curtail cheating on the high-stakes exams.

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