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Pa. school bus driver charged in 2nd fatal crash (AP)
AP - Prosecutors say surveillance video shows a sleep-deprived school bus driver running stop signs before causing a fatal crash last month outside a suburban Philadelphia middle school.
Duncan: More than math, reading important (AP)
AP - President Barack Obama's proposal to overhaul education standards championed by his predecessor aims to broaden the focus beyond math and reading to "a well-rounded education," Education Secretary Arne Duncan says.
No Child Left Behind overhaul: five key things that would change (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - On Saturday, the Obama administration released its blueprint for overhauling the 2002 No Child Left Behind Act. US lawmakers are to consider the blueprint â and make their own revisions â as part of a reauthorization process for the education law.
Conn. would waive student loans in 'green' jobs (AP)
AP - Paul Goulet hopes Connecticut will help him get from under nearly $8,000 he's borrowed for college after losing his job in a paper manufacturing plant.
Firing of all teachers at RI school roils students (AP)
AP - Ashley Delgado graduated from one of Rhode Island's worst-performing high schools and wanted to go to college — if only she could get there.
Obama promise: Brighter education futures for kids (AP)
AP - President Barack Obama is promising parents and their kids that with his administration's help they will have better teachers in improved schools so U.S. students can make up for academic ground lost against youngsters in other countries.
Obama to submit new education initiative (AFP)
AFP - US President Barack Obama announced Saturday he will be sending to Congress a new education initiative designed to better prepare high school graduates for college and a professional career.
Obama's plan for education reform: short on specifics, so far (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - President Obama will send the outlines of an education overhaul bill to Congress on Monday, promising sweeping changes to a faltering American education system.
Texas ed board vote reflects far-right influences (AP)
AP - A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next decade.
EEOC: NYC wronged Arabic-language principal (AP)
AP - The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has ruled that the New York City Education Department discriminated against the founding principal of an Arabic-language school who lost her job after she made controversial remarks about the word "intifada."
Agency places shotgun order: FBI? No, Education Department (McClatchy Newspapers)
McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — Schools may be gun-free zones, but the U.S. Department of Education is locked and loaded.
Colo. school shooting suspect says he heard voices (AP)
AP - The voices Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood thought were coming from a television box haunted him for years, and he told sheriff's deputies he continued to hear them the day he took a rifle to his old middle school and wounded two students.
Democrats look to resurrect college aid plan (AP)
AP - Congressional Democrats want a stalled overhaul of college aid programs to get strapped onto a fast-track health care bill, giving both Obama administration priorities a better chance of passage.
Obama's proposed student loan overhaul gets boost (Reuters)
Reuters - President Barack Obama's stalled bid to overhaul the federal student loan program by cutting subsidies to private lenders and increasing aid to students received a boost on Friday.
Student loans to be in healthcare package: Pelosi (Reuters)
Reuters - House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Friday the final version of a broad healthcare overhaul would include a revamp of the student loan program but not a government-run health insurance option.
Minneapolis schools end lockdown in 2nd day (AP)
AP - A lockdown has ended at Minneapolis Public Schools after police say a threat made on a social networking site turned out to be not credible.
Few details about ambitious KC school closing plan (AP)
AP - Kansas City school officials promised Thursday to shut down nearly half the district's schools by the start of classes in the fall without offering details of how they intend to implement the complicated plan in just a matter of months.
DoD to resume education grants to military spouses (AP)
AP - Facing a phalanx of angry military spouses, the Defense Department said Thursday it will resume payments for college courses and job training for spouses who had already applied for grants when the popular program was abruptly halted last month.
Japan's spouse hunters hone skills at marriage school (Reuters)
Reuters - In search of Mr. or Mrs. Right, dozens of Japanese are attending a newly launched school in Tokyo that aims to turn them into marriage material.
Ala. professor accused of 3 killings fired (AP)
AP - The University of Alabama in Huntsville has fired the professor accused of shooting six co-workers, killing three.

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