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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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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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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US Education Dept. joins probe of DC test scores (AP)
AP – The U.S. Department of Education has joined an investigation of possible cheating on standardized tests, and District of Columbia leaders said Friday they welcome the scrutiny.
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Worst of Detroit schools to be moved to new system (AP)
AP – The worst of Detroit’s schools will be pulled out of the district — which the nation’s top education official calls the “bottom of the barrel” — and placed in a new system that gives principals and staff more control over spending, hiring and improvement efforts, state officials announced Monday.
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News Corp. hires 2 leaders for education division (AP)
AP – News Corp. has hired two top deputies to join former New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein at its education division.
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News Corp. hires 2 leaders for education division
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Suspicious envelopes found at 2 more DC schools (AP)
AP – Authorities say suspicious envelopes have been found at two more District of Columbia schools a day after nearly 30 other schools received letters containing a white, powdery substance.
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More Mass. teens plead in bully-suicide case (AP)
AP – Three teenagers admitted Thursday that they participated in the bullying of a 15-year-old girl who later committed suicide, with one of their lawyers complaining that they had been unfairly demonized as “mean girls.”
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DA drops statutory rape charge in bullying case (AP)
AP – Prosecutors have dropped a statutory rape charge against a teenager who dated a 15-year-old Massachusetts girl who later was bullied and committed suicide.
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