Ohioans React to School Violence Statistics (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – Violence has been a growing problem in Ohio public schools since 2008, according to 10TV News. Columbus City Schools District records reviewed during by 10TV News revealed a .25 caliber pistol and 9 mm semiautomatic weapon were confiscated at district schools. The investigation discovered 46 reports of knives or guns found on school grounds during the past three years.
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Judge orders removal of school prayer mural (Reuters)
Reuters – A federal judge has ordered the immediate removal of a Christian prayer mural displayed in the auditorium of a Rhode Island high school, saying it violated a U.S. constitutional ban on state-sponsored prayer in public schools.
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Group of Texas schools sue state to get more funds (Reuters)
Reuters – Six so-called property wealthy school districts in Texas on Friday sued the state to get more funding, arguing that the state had failed to adequately finance them, the schools’ attorney said on Friday.
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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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Panel: Educators in scandal should lose licenses
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Felony charges reduced for mother who lied to put children in a better school (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor – Kelley Williams-Bolar has won a reprieve. The Ohio mother who served jail time earlier this year for falsifying information to enroll her children in the Copley-Fairlawn City Schools has had her felony convictions reduced to misdemeanors.
Ohio School Cancels Christian Tea Party Speaker (ContributorNetwork)
ContributorNetwork – COMMENTARY | After pressure from groups opposing an Egyptian Christian’s upcoming speaking engagement, Ohio’s Mansfield City Schools withdrew the permit for a local Tea Party Association event.
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Atlanta schools created culture of cheating, fear (AP)
AP – Teachers spent nights huddled in a back room, erasing wrong answers on students’ test sheets and filling in the correct bubbles. At another school, struggling students were seated next to higher-performing classmates so they could copy answers.
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Six percent of D.C. public school employees get separation notes (Reuters)
Reuters – The District of Columbia Public Schools has notified 413 employees of their separation as the result of IMPACT evaluations, the DCPS said on Friday.
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Six percent of D.C. public school employees get separation notes
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1 woman, children hurt in Denver school bus crash (AP)
AP – Authorities say several high school students and a woman were hurt in a traffic accident involving a Denver Public Schools bus and a car.
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1 woman, children hurt in Denver school bus crash
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Ex-Atlanta schools supe sorry after cheating probe (AP)
AP – Former Atlanta schools Superintendent Beverly Hall is apologizing to the people of Atlanta and their children for “any shortcomings,” but says educators involved in the district’s cheating scandal bear the “moral responsibility.”
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