NY city councilmen among 24 arrested in school protest (Reuters)
Reuters – Twenty-four people, including two members of the New York City Council, were arrested on Monday at a protest over plans to close two dozen city schools, authorities said.
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Feds probe Calif. ‘sham university’ for visa fraud (AP)
AP – The government of India is condemning the use of ankle monitors on Indian students who were enrolled at a “sham university” in California that authorities say was a front for illegal immigration.
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Duncan, Lee urge more black men to become teachers (AP)
AP – Filmmaker Spike Lee joined Education Secretary Arne Duncan in issuing a call Monday for more black men to become teachers, making their plea at the country’s only all-male historically black college.
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"World School" announces first of 20 campuses in New York (Reuters)
Reuters – Educational entrepreneur Chris Whittle, who pioneered charter schools and classroom television, is set to open the first of a network of 20 private schools to groom the next generation of global citizens.
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Cheaper Student Loans, But Shortage of College Grants Likely in 2011 and 2012 (U.S. News & World Report)
U.S. News & World Report – Although the federal government will hand out billions of dollars more in college grants in 2011 and 2012 than ever before, the nation’s financial aid programs as a whole are not keeping up with rising tuition, government officials and financial aid analysts say.
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Ivy League case tests Rockefeller drug law change (AP)
AP – A case against five Columbia University students accused of dealing drugs on campus is putting a spotlight on a recent overhaul of New York’s once-notoriously stringent drug laws.
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Foundation aims for new instruments across W.Va. (AP)
AP – In the nine years Leigh Ann Smith has taught music in West Virginia’s Mingo County, she’s had to do it with a misfit collection of used instruments: a few trumpets, some saxophones and a snare drum.
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Maine jury finds school gunman guilty (AP)
AP – A Maine jury has found a 57-year-old man guilty of holding a group of fifth-graders hostage.
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LA chief apologizes for dragnet in shooting hoax (AP)
AP – A school police officer who triggered a massive manhunt by saying he had been shot in his bulletproof vest was regarded as a pariah Friday by authorities who deemed the shooting a hoax.
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Ind. School District Settles With Trans Student (The Advocate)
The Advocate – Lambda Legal has reached a settlement with the Gary, Ind., school district, in the case of a transgender student who was barred from attending prom in a dress in 2006, and the district has adopted LGBT-inclusive policies as part of it.
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