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Facing Budget Cuts, Minn. Schools Consider Ads On School Lockers

Facing Budget Cuts, Minn. Schools Consider Ads On School Lockers

With school budgets across the nation stretched thin, district officials are looking to advertising dollars to make up for lost funds.

 

UConn Campus Evacuated Over Bomb Threat

UConn Campus Evacuated Over Bomb Threat

The University of Connecticut campus in West Hartford has been evacuated after a bomb threat was made Thursday morning, the Hartford Courant reports.

 

Michelle Rhee To Resign As D.C. Schools Chancellor

Michelle Rhee To Resign As D.C. Schools Chancellor

Ending her three-year tenure as D.C. Schools Chancellor, The Washington Post reports Michelle Rhee will announce her resignation on Wednesday.Rhee is expected to say that she will leave the post at the end of the month, a move that follows the defeat of incumbent Mayor Adrian M. Fenty, who appointed Rhee as chancellor.

 

Debit cards invade campuses

New type of plastic lets students access college loan money everywhere from the bookstore to the bar.

 

Rutgers honors late student at homecoming game

Rutgers honors late student at homecoming game

Rutgers University paid a public tribute Saturday at a football game to a student who committed suicide last week after his sexual encounter was secretly streamed online.

 

Kansas special-needs student crowned homecoming king

Owen Phariss on Friday night became the latest special-needs student to be crowned homecoming king, prompting an outpouring of cheers and a ...

 

Obama: Money without reform won’t fix schools

Speaking to TODAY's Matt Lauer in the Green Room of the White House for nearly 30 minutes, President Obama said that additional funding tied to significant reforms — including a longer school year and lifting teaching as a profession — is a much-needed fix.

 

Facebook CEO to give $100M to schools

This Friday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is expected to appear on The Oprah Winfrey Show to announce a $100 million donation to the Newark public school system.

 

CEOs With Top College Degrees No Better Than Ones Without

The research conducted by University of New Hampshire also showed that when it comes to getting canned for poor performance, CEOs with degrees from the nation's most prestigious schools are no safer than the average CEO.

 

Rising test scores allow 5 local schools to thwart outside takeover

Five Los Angeles-area schools improved so much on state standardized tests that they will no longer be exposed to possible takeover by outside groups, officials announced Monday.

 

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