Muslim students across Northeast monitored by NYPD (AP)
AP – The New York Police Department monitored Muslim college students far more broadly than previously known, at schools far beyond the city limits, including the Ivy League colleges of Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, The Associated Press has learned.
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Teacher suspended for discussing racial epithet in class (Reuters)
Reuters – A white public school teacher in Chicago has filed suit against the city’s board of education after he was suspended for using a racial epithet during an in-class discussion about offensive language.
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Cranston School Prayer Banner Should Remain (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | According to reports from the Associated Press, the Cranston School Committee voted 5-2 to not appeal the court ruling against allowing Cranston High School West to display a banner titled “School Prayer.” The case was brought by a young atheist by the name of Jessica Alhquist, a student at the school, and backed by the ACLU.
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House GOP lawmakers push plan to update ed law (AP)
AP – House Republicans on Thursday pushed ahead with a plan to update the federal No Child Left Behind education law by shifting more control to states and school districts in determining whether children are learning.
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A guide to No Child Left Behind (AP)
AP – Ten states now have President Barack Obama’s OK to scrap one of the most rigorous and unpopular mandates in American education — that all students measure up in reading and math by 2014. In exchange, the states had to promise they would raise standards and develop more creative ways to measure what students are learning.
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What is the Future of No Child Left Behind? (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | It has been reported by Associated Press that President Obama will free 10 states from the educational constraints put in place by No Child Left Behind. The controversial education plan put in place by President Bush calls for schools to meet minimum educational standards by 2014 or face penalties. Unfortunately, the plan has not unfolded as many had hoped, and schools are now faced with the daunting challenge of meeting steep expectations. Will NCLB rebound, or is this the first step towards the end?
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Obama grants 10 states leeway on education law (Reuters)
Reuters – President Barack Obama said on Thursday he was granting 10 states exemptions from parts of the “No Child Left Behind” education law, a move that could prove popular in an election year with parents and teachers who have criticized the law – but raises concern among some advocates for low-income and minority students.
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Is President Obama Buying Votes Through Executive Order? (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | Through executive order, President Barack Obama will allow 10 states a pass on the deadline requirements set under No Child Left Behind, according to Fox News. This continues a stream of executive orders given by the president. As a political scientist, I see the president’s actions suspicious when added with the fact of how the 2012 election is right around the corner. How many votes will he try to buy through his executive order ability?
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Obama gives education waivers to 10 states (AP)
AP – President Barack Obama says his decision to free 10 states from the No Child Left Behind education law will give the flexibility they need to set high standards for students and hold schools accountable.
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No Child Left Behind loses bite as Obama issues waivers (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – For 10 states, the chance to get No Child Left Behind off their backs has finally arrived, with President Obama announcing long-awaited waivers from some aspects of the federal education law Thursday.
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