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Grad denied diploma for saying 'hell'

Anderson Cooper reports on a school denying its valedictorian her diploma because she said "what the hell" in a speech.

 

Texas teacher convicted after sex with 5 students

Brittni Colleps

A former Texas high school teacher was convicted Friday after having sex with five 18-year-old students at her home. It took the jury less than an hour to conclude that Brittni Nicole Colleps, 28, of Arlington, was guilty of 16 counts of having an inappropriate relationship between a student and teacher. The second-degree felony is punishable by two to 20 years in prison per count.

 

Teacher Accused of Having Group Sex With Students on Video

A former Texas high school English teacher and mother of three is on trial, accused of having sex with five male students. The evidence against Brittni Colleps, 28, includes cell phone video that allegedly shows group sex between her and four students at her home. Prosecutors say it happened while her children and husband, who is an Army specialist stationed out-of-state, were away. The graphic video was shown to the jury this week.

 

UC Irvine professor vowed in emails to kill 200 students

UC Irvine Professor

A UC Irvine professor accused of setting a
series of fires following his son's suicide
wrote in emails that he planned to get a
dozen machine guns and shoot at least 200
students at his son's high school and then
kill himself.

 

Wages aren’t stagnating, they’re plummeting

High school dropouts’ earnings have fallen 66 percent since 1969, and people with some college – the median level of education in the US – have seen earnings fall by a third. Reasonable people can disagree about what caused this massive decline and what should be done to fix it. But it’s a major crisis and people like Conard who deny its existence are just wrong.

 

Prosecutors: Prosper High boys had ‘Team Snapback’ sex club

A prosecutor said Tuesday that several Prosper High School boys were part of a club with a reputation for giving girls drugs and forcing them to have sex. But one of the boys told a judge that “Team Snapback” was just a group of friends whose activities included ...

 

School quashes porn-star prom date

Senior Prom

A Minnesota school district has quashed a high school's senior plans to bring a porn star -- perhaps two -- to his senior prom.

 

Cops: Staffer taped students having sex

A drug counselor at California high school pleaded not guilty Wednesday to secretly videotaping students engaged in sexual activity with each other, and to possessing child pornography.

 

Report: US makes modest gains in graduation rate

Graduation

Aggressive efforts to prevent students such as Burke from dropping out contributed to a modest 3.5 percent increase nationally in the high school graduation rate from 2001 to 2009, according to research to be presented Monday at the Grad Nation summit in Washington. The event was organized by the children's advocacy group America's Promise Alliance.

 

Lawyer: Shooting suspect 'remorseful'

Chardon Shooting

There will be no school Tuesday in the small town of Chardon, Ohio as many tried to understand why a quiet teen sprayed a school cafeteria with bullets, hitting five classmates and sending a high school into chaos.

 

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