%headline(School vouchers spark growing court fights in US
Students like Delano Coffy are at the heart of brewing political fights and court battles over whether public dollars should go to school vouchers to help make private schools more affordable.
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Tennessee seeks to question evolution in bill
US conservative Christians and science advocates are clashing again, this time in Tennessee over a bill that would allow debate in public schools over theories like evolution.
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Political, legal fights over school vouchers’ fate
Students like Delano Coffy are at the heart of brewing political fights and court battles over whether public dollars should go to school vouchers to help make private schools more affordable.
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Political, legal fights over school vouchers’ fate
California colleges consider asking applicants: Are you gay?
California’s college and university system is looking into asking students about their sexual orientation on enrollment forms and applications.
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Ohio Legislature Debates Fracking Tax Increase
Ohio’s proposed Mid-Biennium Review encompasses a broad spectrum of legislative changes, including a proposal to raise gas and oil drilling taxes on the oil and gas industry, according to the Columbus Dispatch. The drilling increases were removed from the budgetary review last week by the Ohio House of Representatives before hearings on the issue could take place. The mid-biennium review includes a $400 million for the construction of higher education facilities and $675 million for the Ohio School Facilities Commission, National Public Radio reports.
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Ohio Legislature Debates Fracking Tax Increase
Government Initiative Tests Education Graduate Schools
After 28 years working at a specialty chemical company, Michael Fowler of Whitestown, Ind., 50, felt the urge to inspire a love of science in teenagers, much as his own high school chemistry teacher had in him. In 2011, he was enticed by a three-year-old master’s degree fellowship program for would-be science and math teachers at the University of Indianapolis.
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CPS Plans to End Columbus, Pulaski Day Met with Opposition
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, Italian and Polish community leaders in Chicago are speaking out against the Chicago Public Schools’ plans to end Columbus Day and Pulaski Day. As legal holidays in Illinois, both are marked with school and public office closings. The plan to end the school closings on these days has been backed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel as a way to fulfill his pledge to keep CPS students in the classroom for more days each year. …
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BC teachers consider how to respond to back-to-work legislation
VANCOUVER – Parents in British Columbia will have to wait a few more days before they learn about the next phase of teachers’ job action.
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BC teachers consider how to respond to back-to-work legislation
Since When Is Being Patriotic Racist?
COMMENTARY | I am absolutely appalled a high school basketball team would be called out for a “U.S.A.” chant. Being patriotic is not being insensitive. In fact, America needs more patriots, but apparently, some folks in Texas don’t agree. As reported by KENS5 in San Antonio, Alamo Heights High School students have had a complaint filed against them for chanting “U.S.A., U.S.A., U.S.A.”
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Since When Is Being Patriotic Racist?
LA schools ban blindfolds in lessons after scandal (AP)
AP – The Los Angeles Unified School District has barred lessons involving blindfolds and classroom-made butter in the wake of a recent teacher sex scandal at an elementary school.
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