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Sterling district can't unload school (Rocky Mountain News)
Home sellers aren't the only ones suffering in the soft real-estate market - the Valley School District has been trying to sell an elementary school in Sterling for more than a year.
Read more...Exam ordered for mother of boy in school plot (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The mother of a boy who planned an attack on a suburban high school will undergo a court-ordered competency exam. Michele Cossey of Plymouth Township is charged with buying her son several weapons for his arsenal, including a handgun, rifle and laser scope. Defense attorney Tim Woodward wants the mental-health evaluation to see if the 46-year-old woman is competent to defend herself. Her ...
Read more...State seeks U.S. waiver on some school transfers (Birmingham News)
High gasoline prices and low participation have caused the Alabama Department of Education to request federal permission not to offer school transfers to some students who attend failing schools next year.
Read more...School health centers bring services to students (Seattle Times)
The exam room at Cleveland High School's Teen Health Center has the basics: a blood pressure monitor and various scopes hang on the wall. Paper covers the exam table. But its equipment also reflects the realities of adolescent health problems. One cupboard holds pap smear kits, another has a birth control teaching kit. In the lab room there's acne medication, a centrifuge and a tank of liquid ...
Read more...School offers global education (Miami Herald)
Mariany Padilla learned four languages by the age of 18, took four years of intensive classes without electives and graduated from high school with two diplomas: one from the United States and another from the Italian government.
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