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The Associated Press says that a University of Minnesota study has found that school lunch sales don’t decline when more healthful meals are served, and that more nutritious lunches don’t necessarily cost schools more to produce. Previous studies have concluded that students prefer fatty foods and that more healthful meals cost more to make.
The study, […]

In North Carolina today, U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary E. Peters announced a proposal to mandate the installation of safety belts in small school buses have and to require that all school buses have higher seat backs. However, the government is not proposing a safety-belt requirement on larger buses. Peters says the three-point safety belts are […]

It’s not The Bee Movie, but the University of Houston does have a bee move it can boast about. The Houston Chronicle reports that a colony of as many as 100,000 of the buzzing creatures had taken up residence in a a 40-foot high section of an exterior wall at the university’s engineering school facility. […]

In Washington, D.C., the Catholic Archdiocese says it wants to convert seven of its financially struggling schools to charter schools, The Washington Post says. Doing so would allow the schools to receive public funds to operate, but such a change also would require the schools to eliminate school prayer, religious instruction and religious symbols.
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On Tuesday, millions of voters across the nation will have the opportunity to decide the fate of billions of dollars of school construction projects. Bond elections are a normal course of business for many districts, but in other areas, school systems can acquire money for construction and renovation projects without having to persuade their constituents […]

To get to school in Bayfield, the 15 or so students who live on Madeline Island in far northern Wisconsin have to get across 2.5 miles of Lake Superior. Normally, they take a ferry, but for a few weeks in the winter and spring, that’s a problem. There’s too much ice for a ferry, but […]