08/29/2008
Education chief to don U. red for game with rival (Deseret Morning News)
When the Utah Utes play Michigan's Wolverines in their season opener Saturday, Utah's new commissioner of higher education, who hails from Michigan and was recently a Utah Valley Wolverine, will be wearing red.
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08/28/2008
President of Remade Board of Education Won't Run Again (Washington Post)
D.C. State Board of Education President Robert C. Bobb will not be a candidate for the board in November.
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08/29/2008
Retired special education director claimed by death (Williamson Daily News)
Loreka Sue Fullen had won many victories in her lifetime in the field of Special Education but the 59-year-old retired educator and wife of former Matewan Mayor John W. Fullen lost a two-year battle with leukemia Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2008.
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08/29/2008
Sex education advocate leaving city job for nonprofit (San Antonio Express-News & KENS 5)
Dr. Janet Realini, a leading abstinence-plus sex education advocate, announced Thursday that she will resign as adviser to the city's teen pregnancy prevention program.
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08/29/2008
Angola: MPs Attend Education Meeting in South Africa (AllAfrica.com)
Two Angolan deputies belonging to sixth commission of the National Assembly will represent the Angolan Parliament at a meeting which will analyse the education sector across the Southern Africa region, scheduled for 27-29 August, in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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08/28/2008
Commentary: Education lost in hubbub of campaigning (CNN.com)
As we enter the final months of the longest presidential campaign in American history, it seems clear that the issue of the education of our nation's children is virtually absent from John McCain and Barack Obama's rhetoric.
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08/29/2008
Elimination Of Staffer Angers Education Council (Queens Chronicle)
Board members of Community Education Council District 24 are smarting over the Department of Education’s decision to eliminate the position of a long-time staff member.
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08/29/2008
American Education Week about providing quality education (The Beatrice Daily Sun)
Providing quality education to all students is the focus of American Education Week this week.Beatrice Education Association Co-President Doris Martin said this year's theme is, “Great Public Schools: A Basic Right and Our Responsibility,” during a presentation to the Beatrice Public Schools Board of Education during the board's regular meeting Monday evening.“The teachers in this district work ...
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08/29/2008
Legislators to hold hearing in TRF on public education financing (Crookston Daily Times)
State Representative Mindy Greiling and members of a key House Education Committee will hold several public hearings and an informal listening session in northern Minnesota on Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 25 and 26 to share information about legislative plans for significant education funding reform.
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08/29/2008
Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board proposes change in public university funding formula (The Shorthorn)
Changes in a new funding formula proposed by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board could have a dramatic impact on state funding of public universities in Texas.
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