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Extra Extra Monday: Overdoses, background checks, housing markets, midwifery and fraudulent accounting

Use only as directed | ProPublica and This American Life “About 150 Americans a year die by accidentally taking too much acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol. The toll does […]
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Scoring errors jeopardize tests: Poor oversight raises risk

“It can mean the difference between college and a factory job; between scraping by and a chance for more. The former principal is still haunted by the few times he […]
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DeVry Lures Medical School Rejects as Taxpayers Fund Debt

“DeVry, which has two for-profit medical schools in the Caribbean, is accepting hundreds of students who were rejected by U.S. medical colleges. These students amass more debt than their U.S. […]
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Alternative vaccine schedules mean fewer students fully immunized

inewsource in San Diego today reports that "a trend toward giving children fewer shots at one time, combined with continued skepticism about vaccines’ safety, means more kindergarteners than ever in […]
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Philadelphia Schools face downsizing, closures

Philadelphia’s School Reform Commission (SRC), voted on a controversial budget last May that eliminated counselors, sports, secretaries, librarians, music and art teachers and support safety staff at public schools in the […]
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Errors plague school testing

AJC reporter Heather Vogell exposed cracks in a cornerstone of No Child Left Behind: flawed exams. Questions with no right answers; scoring errors; test booklets with missing pages can cost […]
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Off-campus houses a long-standing problem for Naval Academy

"Last week’s hearing on sexual assault allegations against three U.S. Naval Academy football players highlighted a little-known problem at the school: off-campus rental houses that violate academy regulations but have […]
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For-profit colleges soaking up tax dollars despite student loan defaults, low graduation rates -- and could be in trouble

"Despite their high prices and promises of good jobs, more than a dozen of the Bay Area's most expensive trade schools graduate fewer than half of their students, report alarming […]
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Poway schools rely on Mello-Roos tax machine -- for lunches, signs and old school repair

"There is no legal limit and no standardized formula for calculating Mello-Roos taxes. In some cases, the formulas are so convoluted that homeowners have virtually no way of knowing whether […]
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Even Odds

"Being male and black in Oakland means being about as likely to be killed as to graduate from high school ready for college," a San Francisco Chronicle investigation found.
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