Sunshine Serial Requesters

2010-03-18T12:31:34Z

In this photo made Friday, March 12, 2010, Congress Elementary School District superintendent and principal Toni Wayas, left, listens as sixth grader John Shelley, center, aides his "reading buddy," first-grader Jose Vasquez in reading a book in the rural town's lone school library in Congress,

Calif. rape suspect lived by school for 16 months

2010-03-17T21:00:20Z

<div id="subtitle">Records show San Diego murder suspect lived 16 months near school before he was forced to move</div><div><p>A convicted sex offender charged with murdering a California teenager lived near a preschool for at least 16 months before parole agents forced him to move, according to state corrections records released Wednesday.</p><p>A regional ad...

Year-round schools may face academic calendar shift

2010-03-17T02:17:34Z

<div id="subtitle">Rulffes says the move would save millions annually</div><div><p> More than 20 years ago, when the Las Vegas Valley began swelling with thousands of young families moving here for the bounty of plentiful jobs, the Clark County School District realized it couldnÕt build new campuses fast enough.</p><p>One so...

UK halts school aid to Kenyan gov't over fraud

2010-03-16T09:15:52Z

<div id="subtitle">UK halts $30 million in primary education aid to Kenyan government over corruption fears</div><div><p>A British official says his government will not give Kenya's Ministry of Education $30 million in aid meant to support free primary school education because of the risk of fraud.</p><p>Alistair Fernie, the head of the Rhode Island's worst-performing high schools and wanted to go to college — if only she could get there.</p><p>When Delgado's parents could not take her to visit Lesley University in ...

Texas Schools Social Studies

2010-03-12T11:46:26Z

State Board of Education chair Gail Lowe mediates public testimony on social studies curriculum during a board meeting in Austin, Texas, on Wednesday, March 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Jack Plunkett)

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Kansas City To Shut Down Half Of Its Public Schools

2010-03-11T14:34:43Z

KANSAS CITY, MO - MARCH 11: Students ride on a school bus from Westport High School on March 11, 2010 in Kansas City, Missouri. The High School is among 29 in a district of 61 schools that will close due to the new budget plan that is making the cuts to ward off bankruptcy. (Photo by G. Newman Lowrance/Kansas City School Board listen to citizens during a meeting, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City school board voted to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)

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APTOPIX Closing Schools

2010-03-10T19:32:08Z

Superintendent John Covington listens to citizens during a meeting of the Kansas City School Board, Wednesday, March 10, 2010, in Kansas City, Mo. The Kansas City school board voted to close nearly half the district's schools in a desperate bid to stay afloat. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga)

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Report: States team up on new academic standards

2010-03-10T00:18:20Z

<div id="subtitle">Report: Governors, state school leaders team up on new academic standards</div><div><p>Governors and state education leaders are proposing a new set of standards to define what should be taught in the nation's public schools, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.</p><p>The new benchmarks, to be announced Wednesday, are meant to replace standards that vary...

Teacher backs SUV into Mich. preschool classroom

2010-03-09T12:30:07Z

<div><p>A teacher trying to park her SUV Tuesday backed through a large window and into a classroom at the suburban Detroit school where she taught, slightly injuring several preschool students, authorities said.</p><p>The teacher was trying to park her Jeep outside Huda School & Montessori, a private Islamic school, and hit the gas pedal instead of the brake, Villa...

jennifer garner 4

2010-03-05T18:47:58Z

Jennifer Garner arrives to pick up her daughter Violet Affleck from pre-school Santa Monica, California - 04.03.10

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Suicide Pact

2010-03-04T13:04:10Z

In this Monday, March 1, 2010 photo, a poster that was left at a makeshift memorial to Gina Gentile and Vanessa Dorwart is shown, in Norwood, Pa. The high school sophomores were killed by an Amtrak Acela train in what was believed to be a suicide pact. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

NEW YORK - MARCH 04: Speed skater Apolo Anton Ohno speaks to students at Robert Wagner Middle School on March 4, 2010 in New York City. (Photo by Rob Loud/Getty Images)

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Idaho plan would pay kids to graduate early

2010-03-03T11:00:26Z

<div id="subtitle">States make it easier for high school students to graduate early, take college classes</div><div><p>Every high school has at least a handful of them, gifted students who blow through Faulkner as if it were a comic book, teenagers who catch on to calculus as if it were checkers.</p><p>These students are often just marking time in high school and typically become bored and withdrawn as they long for a bigger academic challenge.</p><p&...

Colo School Shooting

2010-03-01T13:17:07Z

In this photo provided by Jefferson County Sheriff's Office on Thursday Feb. 25, 2010, Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood is shown. Eastwood is accused of wounding two middle school students at Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton, Colo. on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jefferson County Sheriff's Office)

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Students welcome Obama statue in Jakarta school

2010-02-22T07:45:16Z

<div id="subtitle">Students at Obama's former school in Indonesia welcome arrival of disputed statue</div><div><p>Children at an Indonesian elementary school eagerly welcomed the arrival of a statue of a former student called "Little Barry" and were excited by the prospect that he might pay them a visit next month as president of the United States.</p><p>...

jennifer garner and violet

2010-02-19T18:02:40Z

Jennifer Garner picks up her daughter Violet Affleck from her pre-school class in Santa Monica Los Angeles, California - 18.02.10

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Obama concedes he didn't always do math homework

2010-02-22T08:11:47Z

&lt;div id="subtitle"&gt;Obama on whether he did his math homework in high school: 'Sometimes'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;Go figure. President Barack Obama didn't always do his math homework.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A math teacher at Friday's town hall asked whether Obama, as a high school freshman, got math homework every night and if so, did he c...

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