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The decision to shutter 28 of its 61 schools reveals the depth of dysfunction in the chaotic, almost nonfunctioning Kansas City School Board.

Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington made the rare move of hiring a woman, Natalie Randolph, to coach its football team.

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The deal would bundle a bill on student loan overhaul into an expedited budget package along with the Democratic health care legislation.

This word has appeared in 577 Times articles over the past year.

Uncertainty about the amount of state aid in the 2009-10 school year has school districts across Illinois in a bind over staffing and planning for the coming year.

This has been an astounding time for massive social change in our nation's capital.

D.C. police have opened a criminal investigation into the death of a 2-year-old girl who was not immediately taken to the hospital by emergency responders.

District families applied in record numbers to the annual online lottery for out-of-boundary, preschool and pre-kindergarten slots, school officials reported Thursday.

A high school in Wayne County, N.C., has a student population that is poor and 99 percent black. That's not the case at other public high schools in the same county. The disparity has prompted a civil rights inquiry — and complaints about what one leader calls "re-segregation."

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Capitol Hill parents, who have played a key role in the revival of elementary schools in Ward 6, are asking Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee for a major expansion of middle school choices in the area so that their children can continue in D.C. public schools.

Federal education officials have singled out Alexandria's only public high school as one of the nation's poorest-performing schools, putting it on track for dramatic instructional reforms fueled by new federal funds.

Despite a highly critical state audit, the FAME school won renewal of its charter for another five years in a vote by the Alameda County Board of Education.

DHS is looking forward to proposals that will include Web 2.0 technology, privacy protection, repeatability, distribution quantification ability and the reception of messages. "It should engage the private sector and industry leaders to develop their own campaign strategy and metrics to track how to get a unified cyber security message out to the American public", the agency said.

Students and teachers may not have to check their rights at the schoolhouse gate, but Facebook and cell phones are another matter. Web sites like Facebook and things like cell phone texting are rapidly bulldozing the old boundaries that defined how students and teachers interact. Now, school district administrators across the Northland, including Liberty, are trying to figure out how to regulate

SocialText 4 has been released with more focus on process related and microblogging related issues. While this release is more technical in nature than previous releases, there is plenty to cheer up even the most curmudgeonly of Enterprise 2.0 observers (who me?)