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US judge orders child returned to Sweden
A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a 3-year-old girl at the center of an international custody dispute between her divorced parents to be returned to Sweden after concluding the child is being wrongfully kept in Iowa by her mother. In a ruling filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Des ...
AP top news in Iowa at 3:58 p.m. CDT
State House approves education policy deal DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state House has unanimously approved an education policy deal that would provide additional school funding. Lawmakers backed the plan Wednesday in a 95-0 vote. Republican Rep. Ron Jorgensen, of Sioux City, says the compromise plan would provide more ...
Del. budget panel adds $2M for charter schools
Members of the legislature's budget writing committee have approved $2 million in new spending for Delaware charter schools. Wednesday's vote by the Joint Finance Committee is aimed at helping high-performing charter schools with startup costs or funds to expand of programs. While committee members authorized the funding, the proposed charter ...
Obama threatens veto of House student loan plan
President Barack Obama on Wednesday threatened to veto legislation by House Republicans that would avert a doubling of student loan interest rates on July 1 but allow them to vary with the markets going forward. The White House issued the warning a day before the full House was scheduled to ...
Dickinson teachers turn down $38K
The Dickinson Public School Board and an association representing teachers are at an impasse in contract negotiations for the next two school years. The Dickinson Press reports (http://bit.ly/10U6VbS) that the board offered $38,400 per year for new teachers, but the Dickinson Education Association declined the offer. The salary would have ...
Fort Wayne schools want 3rd party to review ISTEP
Indiana's largest school district says it won't accept results of this year's standardized testing until an independent third party validates the scores. Fort Wayne Community Schools announced its position Wednesday in response to computer crashes and delays that frustrated many students during the testing period that began in late April, ...
2 children bitten by fox at Ga. elementary school
Two elementary school students in Newton County were bitten by a fox while they were on a playground Wednesday morning, animal control officials said. The fox came onto the playground at Rocky Plains Elementary School in Covington and bit two 6-year-old boys, Newton County Animal Control Director Teri Key-Hoosen said. ...
Most NY school district budgets OK'd by voters
New Yorkers voting on school budgets for next year have approved nearly all of the proposals containing tax increases within state-imposed taxing limits. Budgets that proposed bigger tax increases mostly failed. More than 630 school budgets, about 96 percent, were approved around the state, a preliminary analysis by the New ...
Ala. school board votes to lease laptops
The Oxford school board has voted to lease Apple Macbook Air laptops for middle and high school students. The school board voted to lease the laptops at a meeting Tuesday. The school system's operations director, Eric Burrage, tells the Anniston Star (http://bit.ly/11coEQG ) the four-year lease will cost the school ...
Arizona Senate advances bills for religious groups
A little religion could soon go a long way in avoiding unpopular government mandates. The Arizona Senate passed a trio of bills Wednesday that seek to lower property taxes for religious institutions and make it easier for some people to sue over the First Amendment, much to the chagrin of ...
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