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Judge halts closing of Kansas City charter school
A judge has temporarily stopped the closing of a Kansas City charter school. State education officials voted last week to pull the charter of Gordon Parks Elementary School because of the students' poor performance. School officials say their children are making progress even though many live in poverty. Cole County ...
Parents face tough choice when tornadoes bear down
With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: "We are currently holding all students until the current storm danger is over. Students are being released to parents only at this time." Parents had a gut-wrenching choice, and only a few minutes to ...
Japan approves joining int'l child abduction pact
Japan's parliament on Wednesday approved joining an international child custody treaty amid foreign pressure for Tokyo to address concerns that Japanese mothers can take children away from foreign fathers without recourse. The upper house of parliament voted unanimously to join the 1980 Hague Convention on international child abduction following passage ...
West Feliciana joins school cooperative
The West Feliciana Parish School Board has agreed to join a cooperative of Louisiana school districts that hope to save money through bulk purchases of computers and software and by devising curriculum and online courses. The Vermilion Parish School Board administers the District Cooperative of Louisiana, and West Feliciana is ...
NH high school students recognized
New Hampshire high school students who have achieved academic excellence are celebrating. The state says 3,600 students from 64 high schools are being recognized as "New Hampshire Scholars." They've taken on more rigorous academic programs to reach their goals in subjects like physics, foreign languages and advanced math. Gov. Maggie ...
NJ judge rejects protest in school bullying ruling
An administrative law judge has found an eighth-grade boy in New Jersey violated anti-bullying rules by calling a student a "horse" and "fat." The judge says a reasonable person should know that repeatedly calling a teenage girl "fat" would have a harmful effect. He rejected the Ridgewood boy's claim that ...
Wyoming teen pregnancy rates decline
Wyoming's teen birthrate dropped by nearly 15 percent between 2007 and 2012, but officials are unclear as to why. Ashley Busacker is a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wyoming assignee. She says the decline could be because of strong pregnancy prevention messages or increased use of birth control. Her ...
Singer Kellie Pickler named new 'Dancing' champ
Kellie Pickler came into the final "Dancing With the Stars" episode in second place but finished in first. The 26-year-old country singer won the show's mirror ball trophy Tuesday. "This is amazing!" she beamed to her professional partner, Derek Hough. The pair earned two sets of perfect scores Monday night ...
Search for US tornado survivors nearly complete
Rescue workers neared the end of the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children. Scientists concluded the storm was a rare and extraordinarily ...
Search for Okla. tornado survivors nearly complete
Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children. Scientists concluded the storm was a rare and ...
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