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Extra Extra Monday: Nebraska releases prisoners early; Koch brothers hold secret summit; Missile defense system proves unreliable

$40-billion missile defense system proves unreliable | Los Angeles Times The Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, or GMD, was supposed to protect Americans against a chilling new threat from "rogue states" such […]
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Kids with no vaccinations clustered in some schools

"Some Ohio schools might as well have a target painted on the side of the building as far as public-health experts are concerned. In some schools in the state, as […]
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60 years after Brown v. Board of Ed, pockets of segregation remain in Md. Schools

Sixty years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in 21 states was unconstitutional, diversity is not guaranteed in Maryland's schools. Ten percent of the schools in Maryland […]
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Watchdog: City schools pay $3M in unused vacation

There is no limit to how many hours Rochester School District supervisory staffers can exchange, save for what they carry over and accrue in a given year. And they have […]
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College sports revenue goes up despite recession

Despite the economic downturn, which saw a 1.3 percent decrease in the median salary of American households, sports revenue at public colleges and universities increased by 32 percent between 2008 […]
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Whites getting more spots at top Chicago public high schools

More white students are walking the halls at Chicago’s top four public high schools. At Walter Payton College Prep on the Near North Side, more than 41 percent of freshmen […]
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Savannah companies owned by women, minorities not contacted for school construction despite contractor's pledge

When the Savannah-Chatham School Board agreed to pay JE Dunn/Rives E. Worrell construction company $21 million to build a new Hesse Elementary campus, they believed the 50 percent JE Dunn/Rives […]
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Washington state loses waiver for No Child Left Behind

Washington has become the first state in the country to lose its waiver for No Child Left Behind. This after the state voted down the use of student test scores […]
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A star player accused, and a flawed rape investigation

Yet another university community has been accused of denying justice to a female sexual assault victim in order to protect a star male athlete. The New York Times today chronicled the shortcomings […]
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Portsmouth schools stash away year-end surplus dollars

In a highly unusual move a little more than a year ago, a special grand jury declared that Portsmouth school officials had violated state law by holding on to tens […]
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