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| Children who attacked police officers ‘worse than animals’
- Schoolchildren who attacked a policeman after he asked one of them to pick up some litter behaved worse than animals, a colleague said yesterday. |
| Wind might have a big impact on our wallets
- Loren Steffy I want to believe in the wind. I'd like to think that it will blow across the West Texas plains, bringing cheap, clean power and leaving in its path jobs that spring forth and revive the economies of dying rural towns. Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:24:46 EDT |
| Shakeup of disciplinary school system underway
- by Dale Mezzacappa Acknowledging for the first time that only seven percent of students sent to privately managed disciplinary schools successfully return to regular schools in a given year. In its largest single program budget cut for 2008-09, the School Reform Commission slashed $5 million in June from its contracts with the discipline and alternative school providers – almost all of that coming from the largest and oldest contractor, Community Education Partne rs (CEP). Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:03:04 EDT |
| 1,250 N.O. families apply for private school vouchers
- About 1,250 families have applied for the state's first school voucher program, seeking mainly to enroll children in kindergarten classes in Orleans and Jefferson parishes' private and parochial schools, state education officials said Saturday. Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:40:28 EDT |
