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Seeking to help the state's youngest students develop nutritious habits, Texas lawmakers on Tuesday approved banning the sale of sugary drinks in public elementary and junior high schools. In a 24-6 vote, the Senate advanced a bill that would limit beverage choices to water, low-fat milk and pure juice. Its ...
SC Senate defeats effort to expand Medicaid
South Carolina senators defeated another attempt by Democrats to extend Medicaid coverage under the federal health care law. The Senate's 23-19 vote Tuesday rejected inserting the expansion into its 2013-14 budget proposal. It represented supporters' closest vote yet. Republican Gov. Nikki Haley has remained steadfast in her opposition of the ...
RESCUE EFFORTS NEAR END IN OKLAHOMA
c.2013 New York Times News Service MOORE, Okla. — Oklahoma officials said Tuesday afternoon that they hoped to finish their search for survivors of a massive tornado by nightfall, a little more than 24 hours after the Oklahoma City area was slammed by a storm packing 190-mph winds and measuring ...
NC Senate budget drawn by GOP target for critics
Senate Republicans pushed their state spending proposal through a pair of committees Tuesday, but not before giving Democrats and advocacy groups plenty to pick at when it comes to reshaping public school funding and raising fees. The North Carolina government budget plan cleared the Senate's appropriations and finance panels with ...
Committee delays vote on ACT test requirement
The Legislature's budget committee has delayed taking a vote on whether to have every high school junior in Wisconsin take the ACT college entrance exam. The plan by state superintendent Tony Evers and Gov. Scott Walker was before the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee for a vote Tuesday. But the Republican-controlled ...
Pa. gov seeks to clarify proposed school standards
Gov. Tom Corbett has asked state education officials to clarify that a set of proposed academic achievement standards for Pennsylvania public school students are not uniform national standards, a step a spokesman said Tuesday is designed to respond to criticism of the proposal. However, Corbett's request apparently would not alter ...
Dalai Lama speaks to Kentucky students
The Dalai Lama delved into teen angst about violence and academic stress, telling a crowd of students Tuesday that moral teaching in schools would promote non-violence and reassuring them that a bit of anxiety about grades can be productive. The 77-year-old Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, who lives in India, decried ...
Ga.'s grad rate inches toward 70 percent for 2012
Georgia's high school graduation rate for the class of 2012 has increased to nearly 70 percent, a slight increase under a new formula that saw the rate drop considerably in recent years. State officials on Tuesday released the statewide rate of 69.7 percent for 2012, up roughly two points from ...
Texas district that axed sports gets new life
An underperforming South Texas school district that swapped funding sports for new science labs when threatened with closure in 2011 will remain open under an academic agreement announced Tuesday between the district and Texas A&M University-Kingsville. Leaders of the Premont Independent School District joined state Education Commissioner Michael Williams and ...
NC House panel hosts public debate on voucher bill
A proposal to let North Carolina students use public money to attend private or religious schools drew fierce debate Tuesday from a state House panel. The House Education Committee heard from both sides of the voucher debate but didn't take a vote on a bill giving $4,200 annual grants to ...
Recent editorials published in Indiana newspapers
Tribune-Star. May 19, 2013. Waging the 'readiness' campaign Almost every Hoosier who starts college intends to finish. Unfortunately, those who arrive on campus unprepared in key academic areas are far less likely to fulfill that aspiration. The Indiana General Assembly passed one of its more logical, meaningful pieces of education ...
NM judge poised to uphold law on private schools
A judge appears poised to rule that the state can continue to pay for textbooks for private school students in New Mexico. District Judge Sarah Singleton concluded a hearing Monday by saying nothing in the New Mexico Constitution bars the state from paying for private schools' instructional materials. Paying for ...
Suit filed in Blytheville school-choice exemption
A group of parents and grandparents is suing the Blytheville School District, claiming it wrongfully denied their children's applications to transfer elsewhere under the state's school choice law. The law, approved this year after a federal judge struck down a similar law, allows students to transfer out of their residential ...
Cuts needed to align Monroe school budget
Reductions in the number of employees, possible school closures and cuts to services including food and transportation are all possibilities as Monroe City Schools superintendent-elect Brent Vidrine takes the helm of the district on June 1. Vidrine tells The New-Star (http://tnsne.ws/118EAgM ) the district will consider all expenditures to balance ...
Judge to hear request to expand Eastside
The proposal to expand Hammond Eastside Middle School to eighth grade will be discussed in federal court May 29 in New Orleans. The Daily Star reports (http://bit.ly/16IOOxJ ) attorneys in the Tangipahoa Parish School Board's desegregation case also will ask U.S. District Judge Ivan Lemelle to recognize that the school ...
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