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Is This The Fate Of The Little Red Schoolhouse?

AP | KATHRYN HAAKE | Posted 05.06.2013 | Politics
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DIVIDE, Mont. -- The school day in Divide begins with the four students, ages 5 to 14, reciting the Pledge of Allegiance around the flagpole outside t...

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Arne Duncan On Sequestration: 'There Is No Fix'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 02.21.2013 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- While sequestration is not a sure thing yet, school districts are already asking for help dealing with the massive, imminent cuts, U.S. ...

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U.S. Public Schools Cut 11,000 Jobs In December

Reuters | Posted 03.09.2013 | Home
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By Anna Yukhananov and Lisa Lambert WASHINGTON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Local U.S. governments cut jobs for the fourth straight month in Dec...

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Fiscal Cliff Ignites Education Activism

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.15.2012 | Home
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Juandiego Wade is worried. As vice chair of the Charlottesville City School Board in Virginia, he's responsible for the well-being of its 4,000 stu...

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Duncan: Looming Cuts 'Playing Chicken With The Lives Of The American People'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.25.2012 | Home
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Schools, HIV testing, childcare and unemployment programs are all "under threat" as across-the-board cuts, known as sequestration, are scheduled to st...

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State Budget Cuts Slam Higher Education, Almost Spare K-12

| Kathryn Baron and John Fensterwald | Posted 02.13.2012 | Home
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This story comes to us courtesy of Silicon Valley Education Foundation's Thoughts On Public Education blog, TopEd.org. Midyear budget cuts hit Cali...

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Four-Day School Weeks and a Better Idea

Ann Brenoff | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
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Public schools in Los Angeles this year had students sitting on the floor and window sills while class sizes topped 50.

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