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By Dana Beyerle, Tuscaloosa News
Alabama failed in its initial bid for a Race to the Top grant, but the state will try again to get a share of the federal school improvement money.
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By The Associated Press, Montgomery Advertiser
The judge set to preside over accused UAH shooter Amy Bishop's upcoming preliminary hearing Tuesday on capital murder and attempted murder charges issued a gag order in the case today.
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AR: Ark. lottery hit with trademark suit over name
By Chuck Bartels, The Associated Press, The Log Cabin Democrat (Conway)
A Little Rock businessman filed suit Thursday against the Arkansas Scholarship Lottery, arguing that the lottery should be ordered to stop using terms for which he secured the trademark years ago — including the phrase "Arkansas Lottery."
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CA: UC could oversee prison health
By Michael Rothfeld, Los Angeles Times
The Schwarzenegger administration wants to put the University of California in charge of state prison inmates' medical needs in an overhaul of the troubled corrections healthcare system that could save $12 billion over a decade, officials say.
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GA: State taps lottery reserves
By Dorie Turner, The Associated Press, Chattanooga Times Free Press
State officials are dipping into reserves to help pay for education programs funded by the Georgia Lottery for the first time in nearly a decade, as ticket sales lag behind the growth of the HOPE scholarship and statewide prekindergarten.
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GA: Zero Tolerance bill passes out of Senate, moves to House
By Ernie Suggs, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
An overhaul on Georgia's zero-tolerance policies, the kind of law that Emanuel Jones said he was elected to the Georgia Senate to write, passed his chamber Thursday and now heads to the House. SB 299 would give principals and school systems more discretion in how they handle disciplinary cases in their schools.
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HI: More freshmen urged to Step Up
By Loren Moreno, The Honolulu Advertiser
Some 1,800 high school freshmen have pledged to work toward a more rigorous diploma known as the Board of Education's "Step Up" Recognition Diploma, but officials are hoping to get hundreds more students to step up.
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HI: Softball players claim bias
By Curtis Lum, The Honolulu Advertiser
U.S. District Judge David Ezra today will hear a motion for a temporary restraining order after three members of Baldwin High School's girls softball team filed a federal lawsuit against the state and Maui County yesterday alleging they are being discriminated against because of their gender.
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IA: ISU, UNI athletics face end to use of tax money
By Staci Hupp, The Des Moines Register
Iowa State University and University of Northern Iowa officials would have until September to draw up plans to wean their athletic departments off taxpayer money under a proposal state regents will consider next week.
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IL: Teachers safe for now in Huntley Dist. 158
By Larissa Chinwah, Daily Herald (Arlington Heights)
While school districts across the area are reducing staff in order to make up decreased revenue from the state, the Huntley Unit District 158 school board shaved a further $2 million from its draft 2010-2011 budget without laying off teachers.
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IL: Plan could let schools opt out of new rules
By Mike Riopell, The Southern Illinoisan (Carbondale)
Under legislation approved Thursday, local schools wouldn't have to implement some new rules made by the state unless the state also sends money to pay for the changes.
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IL: District 86 weighs cost-cutting moves
By Leslie Williams, Peoria Journal Star
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- Cuts to supplies, travel and training workshops are some of the cost-saving measures District 86 school board members weighed Thursday night in an attempt to plug what could be up to a $3 million gap in next year's budget.
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IL: ICC approves smaller tuition increase
By Dave Haney, Peoria Journal Star
EAST PEORIA, Ill. -- An initial vote to raise tuition at Illinois Central College by $8 per credit hour failed Thursday, ending with a stalemate and at least two trustees remarking how students and families are struggling financially.
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IL: Sexting bill passes Illinois Senate
By Michelle Manchir, Chicago Tribune
Students under 18 who use computers or cell phones to share nude photos of their peers would earn little more than a scolding under a measure the Illinois Senate approved Thursday to address the "sexting" phenomenon.
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IL: NIU probes motives, response to 2008 shootings
By Jodi S. Cohen, Chicago Tribune
Steven Kazmierczak wanted infamy. He wanted video game-style bloodshed. And perhaps most of all, he wanted to punish Northern Illinois University, the "surrogate family" that had kept his demons at bay but that he felt ultimately abandoned him.
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IN: Will union make allowances for school reform?
By Joseph Dits and Kevin Allen, South Bend Tribune
SOUTH BEND, Ind. -- If the South Bend Community School Corp. goes through with state mandates to lift failing ISTEP test scores at Bendix, Riley and Washington high schools — specifically, the state's list of "must do" tasks — it will have to violate the teachers contract.
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IN: Full day kindergarten hurt by sour economy, cost
By Chelsea Schneider Kirk, Gary Post-Tribune
Northwest Indiana parents who pay their school districts for full-day kindergarten may face steeper costs next year as districts struggle to find revenue in the wake of $300 million in cuts ordered by Gov. Mitch Daniels.
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KY: Bill to ease college transfers advances
By Tom Loftus, The Courier-Journal (Louisville)
A bill to make it easier for community college students to transfer to four-year public universities cleared the Senate Education Committee on Thursday in a weaker — but satisfactory — form, the bill's original sponsor said.
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LA: Higher education cuts loom
By Jordan Blum, The Advocate (Baton Rouge)
State higher education leaders Thursday were preparing to cut another $85 million from their budgets after receiving word from the Jindal administration.
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MA: Harvard will raise tuition
By Staff Reports, The Boston Globe
Harvard University will increase tuition next school year by 3.8 percent, the school announced yesterday, bringing the annual cost of a Harvard education, including room and board, to $50,724.
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ME: Money there for some schools
By Matthew Stone, Kennebec Journal
Maine school districts will have access to $41.4 million in school construction bonds this year, but they have to move fast to get the money.
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MS: Colleges eye rate hike for boarding
By Maria Burnham, The Associated Press, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
The leaders of Mississippi's eight public universities presented the state College Board with requests to raise room-and-board rates Thursday but were told to come back next month with proposals for the long-term upkeep of dorms, not just the bare minimum needed to scrape by.
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NC: School suspensions lead to legal challenge
By Erik Eckholm, The New York Times
CHOCOWINITY, N.C. — As school let out one day in January 2008, students from rival towns faced off. Two girls flailed away for several seconds and clusters of boys pummeled each other until teachers pulled them apart.
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NY: Despite gains, charter school is told to close
By Trip Gabriel, The New York Times
Accountability is a mantra of the charter school movement. Students sign pledges at some schools to do their homework, and teachers owe their jobs to students' gains on tests. But as New York State moves to shut down an 11-year-old charter school in Albany, whose test scores it acknowledges beat the city's public schools last year, it is apparent that holding schools themselves accountable is not always so easy, or bloodless, as numbers on a page
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RI: Obama effigy found in Central Falls, RI, high school classroom
By Jennifer D. Jordan, The Providence Journal
CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — A teacher at Central Falls High School has been disciplined after School Supt. Frances Gallo discovered a doll representing President Obama hanging upside down in effigy in the teacher's third-floor classroom Monday afternoon. The doll wore a sign: "Fire CF teachers."
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US: Congress does repair job on stimulus school construction plan
By Christopher Flavelle, ProPublica
Last December, we reported in USA Today [1] that a plan to subsidize billions of dollars in school construction under the stimulus bill had largely flopped. Now, Congress has passed a fix to get the program back on track. President Obama signed the bill today.
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VT: Billions for student aid will help VSAC
By Staff Reports, Burlington Free Press
WASHINGTON -- A $36 billion boost in student aid could preserve a role for Vermont Student Assistance Corp. in the student-loan process. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., announced Thursday that an agreement on student aid legislation would provide billions in new spending on Pell grants -- rescuing VSAC jobs in the process.
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