| Washington state third grader shoots classmate
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Reuters - A boy in the third grade at a Washington state elementary school shot a female classmate on Wednesday, critically wounding the girl, authorities said. |
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| Triplet in NJ school bus crash out of hospital
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AP - One of the triplet girls injured in a southern New Jersey school bus crash that killed her sister is out of the hospital. |
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| 8-year-old critical after Wash. school shooting
(AP) |
AP - An 8-year-old girl was in critical condition Wednesday after she was shot in the abdomen at her elementary school near Seattle, and one of her classmates was detained, authorities said Wednesday. |
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| Conn. mom pleads guilty in school residency case
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AP - A Connecticut woman who was homeless has pleaded guilty to fraudulently enrolling her son in the wrong school district. |
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| Report: Crime at US public schools on the decline
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AP - Violent crime at the nation's schools is declining, and students and schools are reporting less bullying and gang activity. |
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| Parents defend ex-Ala. prof in brother's shooting
(AP) |
AP - The parents of an Alabama professor accused of shooting three of her colleagues to death in 2010 say she was a well-adjusted, "family-oriented" girl growing up and didn't deliberately kill her brother in Massachusetts in 1986, according to testimony during a closed-door inquest after the Alabama shootings. |
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| Pennsylvania university heads paint bleak tuition outlook
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Reuters - The heads of Pennsylvania's four largest universities pleaded with lawmakers on Wednesday to ignore Governor Tom Corbett's proposal to cut state subsidies on higher education by 30 percent. |
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| Justices will review racial preference for college
(AP) |
 AP - The Supreme Court is setting an election-season review of racial preference in college admissions, agreeing Tuesday to consider new limits on the contentious issue of affirmative action programs.
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| Top court to hear university race admissions case
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Reuters - The U.S. Supreme Court said on Tuesday it would decide whether a state university may consider an applicant's race to achieve a more diverse student body, revisiting in an election year a divisive social issue it last addressed nine years ago. |
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| Affirmative action in college admissions goes back before Supreme Court
(The Christian Science Monitor) |
The Christian Science Monitor - The US Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to take up a potential blockbuster case testing the constitutionality of race-based admissions policies at the University of Texas. |
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| Obama takes tougher stance on higher education
(AP) |
 AP - Access to college has been the driving force in federal higher education policy for decades. But the Obama administration is pushing a fundamental agenda shift that aggressively brings a new question into the debate: What are people getting for their money?
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| Chicago school draws scrutiny over student fines
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 AP - A sense of order and decorum prevails at Noble Street College Prep as students move quickly through a hallway adorned with banners from dozens of colleges. Everyone wears a school polo shirt neatly tucked into khaki trousers. There's plenty of chatter but no jostling, no cellphones and no dawdling.
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