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Detroit News

We have come to the conclusion the crisis Michigan faces is not a shortage of revenue, but an excess of idiocy. Facing a budget deficit that has passed $1 billion, House Democrats offered to buy a MP3 player or iPod for every school child in Michiga

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AP

A seventh-grader might end up in court for wearing Winnie the Pooh socks to school. Toni Kay Scott, 14, was sent to an in-school suspension program called Students With Attitude Problems last year for violating a dress code, according to a

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Arizona owes a great deal of gratitude to Arizona State Senator, Thayer Verschoor. Verschoor is doing his best to protect Arizona’s students from being challenged to develop new perspectives and to be able to debate these perspectives

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AP

Some teenagers who drink over the weekend could be in big trouble come Monday morning: A New Jersey school district plans to institute random urine tests capable of detecting whether alcohol was consumed up to 80 hours earlier.

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Reason(Jacob Sullum)

The Democrats' eagerness to cut interest rates on student loans reflects a time-honored Washington maxim: If it's good, it should be subsidized. In this case, as in most others, the truth is just the opposite: If it's good, there's

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AP

17-year-old Patrick Agin often spends a week whittling a single arrow, and he's learning to make chain mail armor by hand. It came time to submit a senior yearbook photo, he selected a photo of himself wearing chain mail and slinging a sword over

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Christian Science Monitor

What if the solution to American students' stagnant performance levels and the wide achievement gap between white and minority students wasn't more money, smaller schools, or any of the reforms proposed in recent years, but rather a new educa

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Christian Science Monitor

A generation ago, it was impossible to get through the American public school system without learning the oath. Today, though, ask kids if they know the pledge [of allegiance] and you're increasingly likely to get a blank stare.

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UPI

Arizona State University has annonced it will pay full tuition for all student admitted from within the state whose families make less than $25,000 a year. (Listen up people, ain't no such thing as a free lunch. Someone pays sooner or later)

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AP

2 students are suing to return to school after they were expelled for making a movie in which evil teddy bears attack a teacher. The teenagers were among 4 students expelled from High School over the movie, titled "The Teddy Bear Master."

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LA Times

The UCLA police officer videotaped using a Taser gun on a student also shot a homeless man at a campus study hall room 3 years ago and was earlier recommended for dismissal in connection with an alleged assault on fraternity row, authorities said.

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Daily Bruin (UCLA)

Mostafa Tabatabainejad, a UCLA student, was repeatedly stunned with a Taser and then taken into custody when he did not exit the Library in a timely manner. Community Service Officers had asked Tabatabainejad to leave after he failed to produce his B

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AP

Police entered 2 classrooms at Middle and High School and announced there was a threat to the school. Students, who were unaware police were conducting a drill, were taken from the classroom into the halls, patted down and asked what they had in thei

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FIRE

Writer and humorist Dave Barry probably never expected that one of his jokes would spark a university free speech dispute. But in early September, a Marquette University administrator removed a Barry quote about the federal government

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