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Despite the fact Phanachone was 7th in her graduating high school class and has a 3.9 GPA, school officials said she was “illiterate” because she refused to take the English Language Assessment. They called her refusal “insubordination” and suspended her for three days.

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9news.com

Secretary Duncan said American schools should be open six days a week, at least 11 months a year. "I fundamentally think that our school day is too short, our school week is too short and our school year is too short." "You're competing for jobs with kids from India and China. I think schools should be open six, seven days a week; 11, 12 months a year," Duncan said.

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Mark Yannone

A recent survey showed that a large number of Americans prefer socialism to capitalism. Don't worry. They don't mean it.

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Pro Liberate

5 years later, the same Val Edrington who embraced John Singer and tearfully thanked him for saving the life of his son would call for Singer to be murdered under color of "law" for the supposed crime of protecting his own children from the

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Washington Post

Tickets were selling fast for Saturday night's showing of a "XXX blockbuster" at the University of Maryland's student union. (Pirates! Skeletons! An orgy of belly dancers!) Then, like a douse of cold water, the state Senate stepped

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2NEWS.TV via a Dotblu.com question! LOL

School officials were not wild about the idea, but Pocatello High School Principal Don Cotant relented after Harrison explained the advertisements could help illuminate such topics as the Great Depression.

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The Ledger

An 8th-grader has been suspended from riding the school bus for 3 days after being accused of passing gas. "Jonathan passes gas on the bus to make the other children laugh and it is so stink [sic] that you can't breathe after he does it,

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The Dallas Morning News

The principal & other staff at South Oak Cliff High School were supposed to be breaking up fights. Instead, they sent troubled students into a steel utility cage in an athletic locker room to battle it out with bare fists and no head protection, reco

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New York Times

The State Department of Education estimates that preliminary notices will be given to 26,500 teachers by the Sunday cutoff. An additional 15,000 bus drivers, janitors, secretaries and administrators are also expected to receive the written warnings.

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LA Times

3 administrators at Porter Middle School have been reassigned for allegedly asking a boy to buy marijuana as part of an informal sting operation against another student. LAPD is investigating both the alleged marijuana supplier and the administrato

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AP

A father allegedly shot his 9-year-old son in the buttocks with a BB gun, a revelation that came to light after the boy wrote a school essay about the incident: The "painful afternoon my Dad shot me with a BB gun." The teacher turned the es

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KTNV-TV

During the last school year, the district spent almost half a million dollars on fire guards. The fire watchers are uncertified, unarmed with fire-fighting equipment and according to parents, often unaware.

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Mark Yannone

There are signs that this bastion of free enterprise and innovation has begun to rot from within.

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