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Bill upping spending on Minn. schools almost law ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota schools are in line for a bunch of new money from the state. The Legislature was ready Saturday to sign off on a massive education finance bill that puts $485 million more into programs from early ...
With time short, Minn. lawmakers meet over weekend
Moving in fits and starts Saturday, the Minnesota Legislature tried to nail down the final pieces of the next state budget, including votes on a nearly $16 billion school funding bill that's been one of the chief priorities for Democrats running things at the Capitol. Floor sessions also were likely ...
Eugene schools face $16 million budget gap
The Eugene School District wants wage concessions from teachers because of a projected $16 million budget gap. Up to 20 teachers could lose their jobs because of the budget problems, and that number could nearly double if the teachers' union does not accept wage concessions, The Register-Guard newspaper reported (http://is.gd/y2hvDL ...
Herbert signs legislation to prevent teen suicide
Gov. Gary Herbert visited a high school in the Salt Lake City suburb of Magna rocked by a recent string of suicides to discuss the problem and sign legislation meant to prevent it. Herbert on Friday heard suggestions on how to deal with teen suicides from students at Cyprus High. ...
Chicago Teachers Union begins 3-day citywide march
Hundreds of teachers, parents and students took to Chicago's streets Saturday, the first of three days of marches to protest Mayor Rahm Emanuel's plan to close dozens of city school. The show of force was meant to add weight to a pair of lawsuits filed in recent days. Police-escorted processions ...
Most ND school districts fail to meet standards
More than two-thirds of North Dakota's public school districts failed to meet annual federal education standards, and one superintendent says it's bound to get worse. The Annual Yearly Progress report released Friday shows that 126 of the 177 districts in the state either failed to meet the goals for math ...
Women sad, angry over sale of nonprofit Ohio home
For more than 100 years, the Anna Louise Inn in downtown Cincinnati has been a safe, serene place that thousands of struggling women came to know as home. But after losing a two-year fight with a Fortune 500 company determined to buy their beautiful, 104-year-old property and turn it into ...
French president signs gay marriage into law
France will see its first gay weddings within days, after French President Francois Hollande signed a law Saturday authorizing marriage and adoption by same-sex couples and ending months of nationwide protests and wrenching debate. Hollande's office said he signed the bill Saturday morning, a day after the Constitutional Council struck ...
Imprisoned Ohio Amish complain about schooling
Some of the Amish sentenced in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio are upset with federal prison education requirements. The U.S. Bureau of Prisons has required some to study for high school equivalency certificates, one of their defense attorneys said. The Amish claim that violates their First Amendment rights. ...
Criticism flares around new Pa. graduation tests
It seemed to hit the Capitol like a brick: a sudden groundswell of criticism over a move by Gov. Tom Corbett and the Pennsylvania State Board of Education to toughen academic achievement standards and tie them to graduation tests for the state's roughly 1.7 million public and charter school students. ...
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