Posts Tagged ‘ Schools ’

A giant flush will kick off a new season for the Orlando Magic at their new home at Amway Center. Team officials will join city leaders and students from Nap Ford Elementary School on Wednesday to simultaneously flush all 443 toilets at the new arena. wesh.com
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Thinking about running for eighth grade class president at Mississippi’s Nettleton Middle School? Are you white? Because only white kids can run for president. Black kids can be vice-president, though! But only black kids. gawker.com
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Jeremi Glover’s first day at his new school was going fine until it was time to go home. The yellow bus he came on didn’t show up. So, school transportation officials put him on a van contracted by the school system. “I’m appalled that they would have a contractor come pick my son up...
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Even teachers play hooky to work on their tans. More than a dozen Department of Education employees were busted in the past two years for faking illnesses to take paid vacations, records show. Two newlywed teachers jetted to Italy for a honeymoon. Another couple flew to sunny Aruba for a romantic getaway. And a...
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When Butner-Stem Middle School posted the details of student bus routes, in an effort to communicate with parents, some worried the information went a bit too far. Ann Harris, who has three grandchildren in the school, says more than just parents and students could access the links. “You have your pedophiles, your sex offenders,...
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Omaha police on Thursday arrested two Burke High School students on separate weapons violations after a gun discharged while students rode home on a school bus. “Apparently a young man had a firearm that accidentally discharged, and that’s really all we know at this point,” said Luanne Nelson, a spokeswoman for the Omaha Public...
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A Freeland High School student testified Thursday that he decided to “tell the truth” about teacher Marcie L. Rousseau having sex with him after coming to believe she was having sex with “everyone else,” including Freeland High assistant principal J. Barry Weldon Jr. Rousseau “was telling me it’s going to be OK, that she...
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Only 11th graders will be given the exam, state says For the second time in less than a decade, Illinois is eliminating the state writing exam for elementary and junior high students, provoking concerns that writing instruction will taper off and fewer students will master the critical skill. Education officials blamed the state’s budget...
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Greg Stewart went from mentor to inmate for reasons he still can’t explain. The once-admired London elementary school teacher’s spectacular fall ended with the short walk across a courtroom Friday into custody. Before sentencing Stewart to six months in jail for sexually assaulting a 14-year old female pupil, the judge said the former Orchard...
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A Price Hill man had his bond set at $10,000 after he was charged with drug possession, cultivation of marijuana and having weapons while under disability. Police officers found 33 plants and three guns at Prosser’s Glenway Avenue home. wlwt.com
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