Topic: Education
APTOPIX Closing Schools
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Superintendent John Covington listens to citizens during a meeting of the Kansas City School Board, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City school board voted to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)
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US city schools locked down after online threat
AFP Global Edition
A vague threat apparently posted by an Australian on two social networking sites led to the lockdown on Wednesday of all schools in the busy midwestern US city of Minneapolis, officials said. City officials received a phone call early Wednesday alerting them that a young man planned to "shoot up ...
Triple Shooting OSU
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This ID photo provided by Ohio State University shows Nathaniel Brown. Brown, a university custodial employee, reportedly shot two co-workers in a campus maintenance building, killing one of them, and then fatally shot himself, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in Columbus, Ohio, according to officials. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Ohio State ...
Report: States team up on new academic standards
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Report: Governors, state school leaders team up on new academic standardsGovernors and state education leaders are proposing a new set of standards to define what should be taught in the nation's public schools, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. The new benchmarks, to be announced Wednesday, are meant to replace ...
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