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Top award goes to elementary school in East Texas

Region 7 Education Service Center (ESC) will present each of the schools with a certificate of achievement on behalf of the Texas Education Agency on May 12, 2009, at the service center located in Kilgore, Texas. TYLER, TX - The Caldwell

Mar. 24   5:06 pm

Full Story at KLTV

CIA Says It Has 3,000 Documents Related to Destroyed Interrogation Tapes

On Friday, the CIA today disclosed that it has a list of roughly 3,000 summaries, transcripts, reconstructions and memoranda relating to 92 interrogation videotapes that were destroyed by the agency. The CIA refused, however, to disclose the list to

Mar. 24   2:12 pm

Full Story at The Hill

Multiracial Students to Be Among the Counted

The federal government is abandoning its traditional check-one-box approach to gathering racial and ethnic information on American students. Next year, the Education Department will allow parents to check every box that applies to their children in two

Mar. 24   11:44 am

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When Russ Whitehurst Goes Pagan!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 at 7:23 am. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed. Whitehurst is right: ?It is

Mar. 24   11:23 am

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JCPS will make big changes in testing

Parents will see big changes when statewide testing begins May 11 in Jefferson County Public Schools, courtesy of the state legislature's decision to phase out CATS testing: State testing in arts and humanities, as well as vocational studies and

Mar. 24   9:55 am

Full Story at Louisville Courier-Journal

Home Loans Des Moines - How to Get Good Home Loan in Des Moines

Getting a home loan, especially in a metropolitan are like Des Moines (well, as metropolitan as you can get in Iowa) can be quite a hassle, or an extremely quick and smooth process. The biggest influence in your experience will most likely be your

Mar. 24   7:53 am

Full Story at Associated Content

Dodson finished stint as superintendent on a high note

Theres nothing like finishing a distinguished career than by going out on top, and Cliff Dodson, Buncombe County Schools Superintendent, is going out about as on top as it gets. On his final lap before retiring as head of the school system in June,

Mar. 24   5:04 am

Full Story at The Asheville Citizen-Times

State may nudge bar upward for graduation rate

The US Department of Education asked Massachusetts to set a "more challenging" graduation rate standard, but a proposed change under consideration by the state may do little to coax more public high schools to graduate larger number of

Mar. 24   4:43 am

Full Story at Boston Globe

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Budget Proposal by Governor Edward G. Rendell

The front of the Scotland School building. Alma Mater We rise here now to sing her praises, alma mater true. The mountains echo every word our loyalty to you. From cottage number one to grads now in the sun, We pledge our faith and give our

Mar. 24   2:50 am

Full Story at Associated Content

Turnout small for candidate forum

Fewer than 10 people, including moderator Mark Schreiber, attended a candidate forum held Wednesday evening at the Flint Hills Technical College conference room. School board incumbents Mike Crouch and Brent Windsor, joined by candidates Danny Giefer

Mar. 24   2:35 am

Full Story at Emporia Gazette

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