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Committee delays vote on ACT test requirement
The Legislature's budget committee has delayed taking a vote on whether to have every high school junior in Wisconsin take the ACT college entrance exam. The plan by state superintendent Tony Evers and Gov. Scott Walker was before the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee for a vote Tuesday. But the Republican-controlled ...
Kentucky editorial roundup
Recent editorials from Kentucky newspapers: May 19 The Daily News, Bowling Green, Ky., on IRS revelations being very troubling: While the ever-growing IRS scandal has many facets, at the end of the day the most troubling aspect of the revelations is that American citizens were targeted by a government agency ...
Pa. gov seeks to clarify proposed school standards
Gov. Tom Corbett has asked state education officials to clarify that a set of proposed academic achievement standards for Pennsylvania public school students are not uniform national standards, a step a spokesman said Tuesday is designed to respond to criticism of the proposal. However, Corbett's request apparently would not alter ...
Dalai Lama speaks to Kentucky students
The Dalai Lama delved into teen angst about violence and academic stress, telling a crowd of students Tuesday that moral teaching in schools would promote non-violence and reassuring them that a bit of anxiety about grades can be productive. The 77-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, who lives in India, decried ...
Ga.'s grad rate inches toward 70 percent for 2012
Georgia's high school graduation rate for the class of 2012 has increased to nearly 70 percent, a slight increase under a new formula that saw the rate drop considerably in recent years. State officials on Tuesday released the statewide rate of 69.7 percent for 2012, up roughly two points from ...
Texas district that axed sports gets new life
An underperforming South Texas school district that swapped funding sports for new science labs when threatened with closure in 2011 will remain open under an academic agreement announced Tuesday between the district and Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Leaders of the Premont Independent School District joined state Education Commissioner Michael Williams and ...
Worried parents seek out kids after US tornado
The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside a suburban Oklahoma City church, listening intently as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who were being dropped off — survivors of a deadly tornado that barreled through their community. For many families in Moore, the ...
NC House panel hosts public debate on voucher bill
A proposal to let North Carolina students use public money to attend private or religious schools drew fierce debate Tuesday from a state House panel. The House Education Committee heard from both sides of the voucher debate but didn't take a vote on a bill giving $4,200 annual grants to ...
In tornado's wake, worried parents seek out kids
The parents and guardians stood in the muddy grass outside an Oklahoma City area church, listening as someone with a bullhorn called out the names of children who were being dropped off — survivors of a deadly tornado that barreled through their community. For many families, the ordeal ended in ...
Should we let wunderkinds drop out of high school?
It's one thing to say tech geniuses don't need degrees. After all, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg all dropped out of college. But now we've got David Karp, who doesn't even have a high school diploma. Karp, 26, founded Tumblr, the online blogging forum, and sold it to ...
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