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Archive for January, 2008

Playing chicken

Filed under: — Mike @ 1:07 pm

The Wimberley (Texas) district, like many districts that are considered high-wealth under the state’s school finance system, doesn’t like sending its money away to other districts. They call it the Robin Hood system, as in “rob from the rich, give to the poor.” The Dallas Morning News reports that Wimberley doesn’t want to give any […]


The green push

Filed under: — Mike @ 3:17 pm

Many state and governments are mandating that schools and universities incorporate green design and construction standards into their facility projects. Do you think green construction should be required, or do you think schools and universities should have the option to set their own standards?
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The Rat Patrol?

Filed under: — Mike @ 11:43 am

…That’s what some students at Wilde Point High School in Columbia, Md., might call classmates tempted to respond to their principal’s pursuit of information about a food fight last month in the school cafeteria. The Washington Post reports that when school officials couldn’t get any students to fess up to involvement in the Dec. 12 […]


A buss on the bus

Filed under: — Mike @ 4:23 pm

In the Alexander (N.Y.) Central School District bus last month, a 6-year-old girl kissed a boy on the school bus, and the girl was suspended from riding the bus for three days, The Buffalo News says. Alexander Elementary School Principal Matthew Stroud says the student violated the student code of conduct and bus rules, […]


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