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OH district ponders creationism for hot topic list
An Ohio school district proposal to add creationism to a hot-topics list deemed appropriate for classroom discussion is drawing opposition from some parents and a civil rights group. The Springboro Board of Education took comments on the proposal at a meeting Thursday night attended by parents, students and teachers. Some ...
Obama: Sexual assault threatens trust in military
With a growing sexual assault epidemic staining the military, President Barack Obama urged U.S. Naval Academy graduates Friday to remember their honor depends on what they do when nobody is looking and said the crime has "no place in the greatest military on earth." The commander in chief congratulated the ...
First lady to students: 'I have failed at things'
Failure is OK, but continuing to work hard is more important, Michelle Obama said Friday. That was the message the first lady delivered to students at an elementary school where the arts are being used to help boost student performance. The school is located in Anacostia, one of the city's ...
Third-grade FCAT math and reading scores static
Third-grade math and reading scores on Florida's standardized test remained static this school year, with fewer than two-thirds of students demonstrating grade-level proficiency, according to results released Friday by the state Department of Education. The scores show 57 percent of third-grade students performed at grade level in reading on the ...
Ex-Ga. PTA president sentenced in embezzlement
The former president of an elementary school PTA and educational foundation has been sentenced to jail and probation for stealing at least $80,000 from the groups. Fulton County District Attorney's spokeswoman Yvette Jones says 48-year-old Maryam Arjomand pleaded guilty Thursday to forgery and theft by taking. Jones says Arjomand, of ...
City of Huron opens $12.5M water park
The city of Huron on Friday opened its new $12.5 million Splash Central Water Park on the former campus of Huron University. Mayor Paul Aylward tells KOKK radio that the water park is a great facility to enhance the quality of life in the city, and it will be something ...
Classmates mourn boys killed in landslide
Students at a St. Louis Park elementary school gathered around a memorial of stuffed animals, handwritten messages and flowers as they mourned two classmates who died in a landslide during a field trip to a Mississippi River park this week. Gov. Mark Dayton told the students, staff and parents at ...
Jackson school principal suspended
The Mississippi Department of Education has suspended the license of a Jackson school principal for one year for interfering in mandated state testing in 2011. Lisa Andrus-Johnson is the principal at Watkins Elementary School in Jackson. The Education Department says Andrus-Johnson committed acts affecting the validity of the Mississippi Curriculum ...
SoCal school's ex-PTA head charged with theft
The former president of a local Southern California PTA has been charged with grand theft for allegedly stealing $20,000 raised from children's candy bar sales. The Riverside Press-Enterprise (http://bit.ly/10Y5pFJ ) says Patricia Gledhill pleaded not guilty earlier this month to two felony counts. Gledhill was PTA president last year for ...
Southern Indiana garden honors Thomas Jefferson
Jeffersonville CityPride, a local steel production company, and students from Spring Hill and Maple elementary schools have created a new garden at Warder Park that pays tribute to the city's namesake. The project, dubbed the "Thomas Jefferson garden," is near a 10-foot bronze statue of the nation's third president and ...
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