College presidents wary of Obama cost-control plan (AP)
AP – Public university presidents facing ever-increasing state budget cuts are raising concerns about President Barack Obama’s plan to force colleges and universities to contain tuition prices or face losing federal dollars.
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College presidents wary of Obama cost-control plan
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Student charged in Utah school bomb plot (AP)
AP – The two teens had a detailed plot, blueprints of the school and security systems, but no explosives. They had hours of flight simulator training on a home computer and a plan to flee the country, but no plane.
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Newark, NJ, told to produce Facebook pledge log (AP)
AP – The state’s largest city must produce a list of documents related to a $100 million pledge to its public schools from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, a judge ruled Friday.
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Newark, NJ, told to produce Facebook pledge log
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Can a home computer teach you to fly a real plane? (AP)
AP – Can flight simulator training on a home computer teach you enough to fly a real plane?
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Obama ‘putting colleges on notice’ on high tuition (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama fired a warning at the nation’s colleges and universities on Friday, threatening to strip their federal aid if they “jack up tuition” every year and to give the money instead to schools showing restraint and value.
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Obama pushes colleges to keep tuition under control (Reuters)
Reuters – President Barack Obama, appearing before thousands of cheering students at the University of Michigan, touted his plan on Friday to reward colleges that keep their tuition under control with more federal aid as he makes school affordability a top election-year priority.
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Broken schools breed South Africa’s "lost generation" (Reuters)
Reuters – The first blow to Martha Netshiozwe’s future came when her parents died of AIDS. The second came when she ran out of money and had to drop out of a South African high school.
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Broken schools breed South Africa’s "lost generation"
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Utah teens arrested in alleged school bombing plot (AP)
AP – A Utah high school student bragged to police that he was smarter than the Columbine killers and was plotting with an older student to set off a bomb during a school assembly and escape in a stolen plane, court documents say.
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Dem NC governor faced tough re-election fight (AP)
AP – Gov. Beverly Perdue said Thursday she will not seek re-election because she fears a fight with Republicans over public education would become too political. But she entered the election year with some baggage: a campaign finance investigation, sagging poll numbers and worries from fellow Democrats she would drag them down in a key battleground state for President Barack Obama.
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Under education reform, school principals swamped by teacher evaluations (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Sharon McNary believes in having tough teacher evaluations.
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Under education reform, school principals swamped by teacher evaluations
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