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Suit filed in Blytheville school-choice exemption
A group of parents and grandparents is suing the Blytheville School District, claiming it wrongfully denied their children's applications to transfer elsewhere under the state's school choice law. The law, approved this year after a federal judge struck down a similar law, allows students to transfer out of their residential ...
Christus to close main Shreveport hospital
Christus Health will close Sutton Children's Medical Center in Shreveport as it moves services from Christus Schumpert St. Mary Place to south Shreveport and Bossier City. Dr. William Lunn, Christus Health Shreveport-Bossier chief operating officer says the closure is part of a two-year plan to focus on outpatient services and ...
Cuts needed to align Monroe school budget
Reductions in the number of employees, possible school closures and cuts to services including food and transportation are all possibilities as Monroe City Schools superintendent-elect Brent Vidrine takes the helm of the district on June 1. Vidrine tells The New-Star (http://tnsne.ws/118EAgM ) the district will consider all expenditures to balance ...
Judge to hear request to expand Eastside
The proposal to expand Hammond Eastside Middle School to eighth grade will be discussed in federal court May 29 in New Orleans. The Daily Star reports (http://bit.ly/16IOOxJ ) attorneys in the Tangipahoa Parish School Board's desegregation case also will ask U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle to recognize that the school ...
Va. teacher accused of student assaults in class
A substitute teacher in Orange County faces charges of assaulting several students in a sixth-grade math class. Police tell media outlets that 49-year-old Laurie Millard is charged with six counts each of assault and battery and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. None of the students was seriously injured. ...
Recent Missouri editorials
Southeast Missourian, May 19 Police cameras Improving technology has created endless fuel for the public-privacy debates of our time. We live in a surveillance society with the government and private sectors watching our movements. Whether it's Google or Facebook tracking our online habits for profitable reasons, or the government tracking ...
Attleboro rehires contractor despite lunch flap
The city of Attleboro has renewed its contract with the food services company that created a national ruckus when its workers denied lunch to about two dozen middle school students whose account balances were in arrears. The school committee on Monday approved a one-year contract with New York-based Whitsons Culinary ...
New technology grants available for SD schools
South Dakota schools can now begin applying for two new kinds of grants approved by this year's Legislature. The Legislature set aside $500,000 for grants that are intended to help teachers use technology in innovative ways. Public school districts, teachers and Education Service Agencies can submit applications until July 8. ...
Budget debate scheduled to continue in SC Senate
The budget debate in the South Carolina Senate enters week two. Senators are scheduled to resume discussions Tuesday on their state spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July 1. They have yet to tackle on the floor two issues expected to bring prolonged debate: Medicaid expansion and private ...
Detroit district expands summer school academy
The Detroit Public Schools is expanding its summer school academy, reaching out to non-district students and offering a pre-kindergarten transitions program. The additions are part of a new strategic plan to increase enrollment and improve academic performance. A credit recovery program gives high school students in and outside the district ...
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