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Killer schools [SLIDESHOW]

| Eric Owens

Where did some of America’s most notorious murderers and murder suspects go to college?

High-schooler suspended for disarming student holding loaded gun - TheDC

| Eric Owens
Gun Owners Train For Gun Safety And Home Defense In Connecticut

School officials called punishment an ‘emergency suspension’

Arkansas will let guns on school campuses, despite student, faculty disapproval

| Robby Soave
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If schools decide to keep guns banned, the law will require them to revisit the issue each year

Amsterdam to ban smoking pot in school - AP

| Associated Press
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National ‘tolerance policy’ to be trumped by ‘nuisance ordinance’ for students

Fla. school board considers trash cameras to monitor what food students ditch - TheDC

| Caroline May
School lunch

‘They have to take (the vegetable), and then it ends up in the trash can, and that’s a waste of taxpayer money’

White House bullying project vehicle for progressive agenda, say critics - TheDC

| Neil Munro
Obama Bullying

“It is all being done under the guise of ‘bullying’”

Schools to employ 3-D technology in the classrom - WSJ

| InternAdmin
Germany Consumer Electronics Fair

Roughly 185,000 3-D-ready projectors will be sold to U.S. schools for grades kindergarten through 12 this year

No Child Left Behind wavering sparks waivers debate - TheDC

| Alexandra Rice

Schools are seeking waivers to redirect after school funding to other needs

Holder seeks heightened federal role in youth violence problem - TheDC

| Joe Kildea

Critics question Justice Department’s involvement in tackling local youth violence issues

Bill to explicitly prohibit sex offenders from working in schools - TheDC

| Alexis Levinson

Reps. George Miller and Carolyn McCarthy to introduce legislation to prevent sex offenders from working in schools after GAO report indicating failures

Registered sex offenders often hired by schools - TheDC

| Alexis Levinson

Schools often hire or retain those convicted of sexual abuse of minors, GAO study finds

Police: Florida school lockdown lifted - AP

| admin

The lockdown began after a woman called a radio station and said her husband might go to a school and start shooting

TheDC Analysis: Teachers aren't heroes - TheDC

| Jamie Weinstein

Pretending they are muddles the important debate about education reform we must have in this country

How will Newark spend its $100 million Facebook gift? - AP

| admin

Now that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has pledged $100 million to help boost Newark’s low-performing public school system, it’s time for officials to start figuring out how to use the funds

Mark Zuckerberg giving $100 million to Newark schools - NYT

| Vince Coglianese

Founder of Facebook, has agreed to donate $100 million to improve the long-troubled public schools in Newark

LA unveils $578M school, costliest in the nation - AP

| admin

The opening of the Robert F. Kennedy Community School will mark the inauguration of the nation’s most expensive public school ever

Fallacious D - Daily Record

| interns

After questioning if earning a D is actually worthy of passing a subject, one New Jersey school district is eliminating the grade altogether

Georgia softens sex offender laws - AP

| admin

Four years after applying some of the nation’s strictest rules to convicted sex offenders, Atlanta has been forced to pull back in the face of multiple lawsuits

California education activists sue Governator - LAT

| interns

The lawsuit alleges that similar school districts receive ‘vastly different amounts of funding for no apparent reason’

As schools cut back, parents open wallets - Boston Globe

| interns

Parents step in to combat increasing budget cuts in MA schools