Audit: Merged districts could save Kan. millions (AP) AP - Consolidating public school districts in Kansas could save millions of taxpayer dollars, although not enough to solve the state's budget crisis this year, according to a new report released Monday. On tapes, Mass. teen denies high school stabbing (AP) AP - In a recorded jailhouse conversation, a teenager charged with fatally stabbing another student at a suburban high school told a friend he was being "persecuted" because he stayed behind to help the victim. Ag Secretary pushes school nutrition plan (AP)
Farm to School program changes kids' views on food (AP)
Super Bowl a good peg to teach kids about finances (AP) AP - There's no denying that the Super Bowl is all about money, and lots of it. Rulings cloud issue of school MySpace suspensions (AP) AP - Federal appellate judges wrestling with whether schools can discipline students for Internet speech posted offsite reached different rulings Thursday in two Pennsylvania cases. Wash. judge rules state failing education (AP) AP - The state of Washington is not fulfilling its constitutional duty to fully pay for basic public education, a King County judge ruled Thursday. University fundraising falls 12 percent in 2009 (AP) AP - Charitable contributions to colleges and universities plummeted an average 11.9 percent nationwide in 2009, the steepest drop in at least three decades, according to a new report. SWAT team responds to cap gun at Wash. school (AP) AP - The initial 911 report from the Vancouver, Wash., elementary school was alarming: shots fired at a school playground. That had police and SWAT officers scrambling Tuesday morning — only to find the weapon was a bright orange cap gun. You can save this news page by submitting it to your favorite sites:
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AP - A lawyer for a ninth-grader charged with shooting a fellow student to death at their Alabama school says the violence was likely related to gang activity.
AP - The Obama administration will ask Congress to improve childhood nutrition by ridding school vending machines of sugary snacks and drinks and giving school lunch and breakfast to more kids.
AP - The third and fourth graders at Sharon Elementary know where the veggies in their soup come from because they've visited the farms. They know the nutritional value of the carrots, onions and cabbage because they've studied them in class, and they know how they're grown because they've nurtured them in raised beds out back.
