Calif. Muslim students guilty of disrupting speech (AP)
AP – A jury convicted 10 Muslim students Friday of disrupting a talk by the Israeli ambassador on a university campus in a case that has stoked an intense debate about free speech.
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Correction: Education-Outdoor Orientation (AP)
AP – In a Sept. 17 story about college outdoor orientation programs, The Associated Press erroneously reported the percentage difference in retention rates for students who participate in such a program at West Virginia University and those who don’t. The 87 percent retention rate for participants was 7 percentage points higher than the rate among nonparticipants, not 10 percentage points higher.
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Correction: Education-Outdoor Orientation
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Jury: Muslim students guilty of disrupting speech (AP)
AP – Jurors found 10 Muslim students guilty Friday of disrupting a lecture by the Israeli ambassador at a California university in a case that stoked a spirited debate about free speech.
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Jury: Muslim students guilty of disrupting speech
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Does waiver plan end No Child Left Behind era? (The Lookout)
The Lookout – President Obama announced Friday that he will grant waivers to states struggling to meet the high standardized test scores required under the No Child Left Behind education law. At least 20 states are expected to request the waivers next year. The White House says it will only grant those requests if the petitioning states agree
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Muslim students’ speech trial goes to US jury (AP)
AP – A jury has completed its first full day of deliberations in the trial of 10 Muslim students charged with disrupting a speech by an Israeli diplomat at the University of California, Irvine.
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Muslim students stand trial for speech disruption (AP)
AP – Prosecutors on Wednesday argued that 10 Muslim university students broke the law when they shouted down a speech by the Israeli ambassador on a Southern California campus in a case that has stoked an impassioned public debate about freedom of speech.
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Ohio reduces convictions in closely watched school-choice case (Reuters)
Reuters – Ohio Governor John Kasich said on Wednesday that an Akron-area mother convicted of felony charges for lying about where she lived to enroll her children in a suburban school district deserves a second chance.
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Ohio reduces convictions in closely watched school-choice case
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Muslim students want DA off speech disruption case (AP)
AP – Eleven Muslim students charged with disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. at a California university sought Friday to have the district attorney pulled from the case.
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Judge rules against Kan. parents in education suit (AP)
AP – Parents in a wealthy suburban Kansas City school district cannot seek to raise property taxes above a state cap because it could bring down Kansas’ entire school funding system, a federal judge ruled Friday.
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LA school officer charged in alleged hoax shooting (AP)
AP – A school police officer was charged Thursday with falsely claiming he was shot outside a high school — a report that led authorities to seal thousands of youngsters inside classrooms and scour miles of the San Fernando Valley for a gunman in January.
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LA school officer charged in alleged hoax shooting
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