Does Obama’s Education Plan Make the Grade? (Time.com)
Time.com – The President’s plan for education reform is a good start. Here’s how to make it even better
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Student aid linked to health care gets a trim (AP)
AP – Congressional Democrats on Thursday trimmed their original student loan plans, reduced spending for community colleges, and eliminated early childhood money from a broad rewrite of a college aid bill piggybacked on to fast-track health care legislation.
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Foodmakers support more control of school food (Reuters)
Reuters – Four major food and beverage makers announced support on Thursday for legislation expanding U.S. control over snacks sold at schools and allowing the government to ban junk food from campuses.
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Obama effigy hung at RI school with fired teachers (AP)
AP – A teacher at a failing school where he and all his colleagues are being fired hung an effigy of President Barack Obama in his classroom, apparently in reaction to Obama’s support of extreme measures to ensure accountability in schools.
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Text message dispute triggered brutal Fla. beating (AP)
AP – The brutal beating of a 15-year-old girl at a Florida middle school was triggered by a text message dispute between the victim and the teenage boy accused punching and stomping on her with steel-toed boots, authorities said Thursday.
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Does Obama’s Education Plan Make the Grade? (Time.com)
Time.com – The President’s plan for education reform is a good start. Here’s how to make it even better
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Detroit Schools slow to tear down vacant buildings (AP)
AP – Owen Elementary, which closed in 2006, stands open to any who dare to take on its dark, winding hallways and shadowy classrooms on Detroit’s southwest side.
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No Child Left Behind: Obama overhaul takes flak from both parties (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – National lawmakers quizzed Secretary of Education Arne Duncan Wednesday about the Obama administration’s blueprint for overhauling the No Child Left Behind federal education law.
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44 of 172 Detroit schools slated to close in June (AP)
AP – Doors are expected to shut on more than a quarter of Detroit’s 172 public schools in June as the district fights through steadily declining enrollment and a budget deficit of more than $219 million, an emergency financial manager said Wednesday.
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Education reform: Can poor test scores get a teacher fired? (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Imagine if a computer could identify the weakest-link teachers – the ones who should be told it’s time to get out of the classroom.
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