Education
Neb. student suspended over vandalism of yearbook
A Lincoln middle school student has been suspended from school for marring the photo of another student by labeling it with an offensive three-letter acronym. Now, school officials are asking students and parents to "immediately mark out these letters" next to the seventh-grade Irving Middle School student's photo in the ...
Police: Missing Pa. college student found unharmed
Pennsylvania State Police say a missing college student from suburban Philadelphia has been found unharmed. However, authorities on Thursday would not disclose where 21-year-old Matthew Royer was located. State troopers say they won't comment further on the case. They say Royer's family has asked for privacy. Royer disappeared earlier this ...
IN OKLAHOMA, THE FIRST OF 24 FAREWELLS
c.2013 New York Times News Service OKLAHOMA CITY — Three days after one of the most destructive tornadoes to strike Oklahoma in decades, people here filed into a mortuary chapel Thursday morning amid heavy rain and flashes of lightning for the first of two dozen funerals. As soaked mourners stepped ...
Ascension Parish hiring 50 new teachers
Ascension Parish is looking to hire 50 new teachers. The Advocate reports (http://bit.ly/10lV9KW ) the school board is poised to hire the new teachers in an effort to ease staffing levels due to continued growth. Funds needed to hire the new teachers are listed in the school district's 2013-14 budget, ...
Center Grove students put best inventions forward
A class of Center Grove students has spent the school year tinkering with smartphones, power adapters and basketballs while trying to invent products. The students, 11 seniors and one junior, all had ideas at the start of the school year for products they thought people would want. Their ideas included ...
Center Grove students put best inventions forward
Central Indiana high school students are putting their best ideas forward as they develop inventions and market them to local businesses. The 11 students at Center Grove High School used three-dimensional computer programs to create drawings of their products. They updated the plans as they discovered which features didn't work ...
Report: Nation's kids need to get more physical
Reading, writing, arithmetic — and PE? The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and that PE become a core subject. The report, released Thursday, says only about half of the nation's youngsters are getting ...
Imprisoned Ohio Amish may skip high school classes
Amish imprisoned in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio have been granted a religious freedom exemption from a requirement to attend high school equivalency classes behind bars. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons said Wednesday that Amish bishop Samuel Mullet and his followers would be exempted from the policy requiring ...
Hattiesburg may cut 20 teaching positions
Hattiesburg Public School District Superintendent James Bacchus is proposing to eliminate the majority of a $1.8 million budget shortfall by cutting 20 teacher positions. Bacchus tells the Hattiesburg American (http://hatne.ws/10V4PZm ) his plan to lay off teachers must be approved by the Hattiesburg Public School District Board of Trustees. The ...
Pa. teacher cleared in fondling, faces second case
A suspended northwestern Pennsylvania high school teacher has been acquitted on charges that he fondled a then-12-year-old boy during a Christmas visit which the teacher, and several defense witnesses, testified never occurred. The Erie Times-News (http://bit.ly/188jLLo ) reports Wednesday's verdict came after just 25 minutes of deliberations by an Erie ...
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