Panel: Educators in scandal should lose licenses (AP)
AP – A committee in Georgia has recommended revoking the teaching licenses of eight teachers and three administrators accused in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating investigation.
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Most states to seek exception to education law (AP)
AP – The Education Departments says a majority of states have notified it that they intend to take President Barack Obama up on his offer to let them get around unpopular proficiency requirements in the education law “No Child Left Behind.”
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Knocking anthropology? Gov’s daughter has degree (AP)
AP – When Florida Gov. Rick Scott singled out anthropology degrees as job market losers, maybe he had some inside knowledge. It turns out his daughter, Jordan Kandah, has an anthropology degree from Virginia’s College of William & Mary.
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Adult students injured in Calif. bus-tractor crash (AP)
AP – Several adult special-education students were taken to a hospital with minor injuries when a school bus collided with a farming tractor and flipped onto its side Wednesday morning in a rural area west of Sacramento.
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Clash over economy sets tone for 2012 election (AP)
AP – For a voter looking to preview next year’s presidential election, nothing placed the competing arguments in sharper focus than a single day.
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LA schools to boost equity for minority students (AP)
AP – A 19-month civil rights investigation of the Los Angeles Unified School District found that the district failed to provide an equal education to English-learners and black students, resulting in wide academic disparities, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday.
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Texas schools sue state, saying funding is unfair (AP)
AP – A coalition of more than 150 Texas school districts said Tuesday it has filed a lawsuit against the state over a school funding system it says is unfair, inefficient and unconstitutional.
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Senators seek to alter No Child Left Behind law (AP)
AP – An outline of a plan by two senators to rework the education law known as No Child Left Behind would put more control over schools in the hands of states.
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Group wants school fined after musk oxen deaths (AP)
AP – An animal rights group wants the University of Alaska Fairbanks investigated and fined following the deaths of at least a dozen musk oxen at the school’s large-animal research station.
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Sarah Lawrence College ranked as priciest in U.S. (Reuters)
Reuters – Higher education in the United States is not cheap but Sarah Lawrence College in New York, with total costs of $58,334 a year, is the most expensive college in the country, according to a new ranking.
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