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| Cuyahoga County Corruption |
Cuyahoga County Commissioner Tim Hagan defends hiring of mapping system manager
John Kable has been the subject of much debate since being chosen last month to replace J. Kevin Kelley, who last year pleaded guilty to corruption-related charges.
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Lawyer Tim Armstrong gets prison term for bribing county officials
A lawyer is sentenced to more than three years in prison Wednesday for bribing Cuyahoga County officials to get inflated appraisal contracts.
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Bruce Zaccagnini gets five years in prison for county bribe scheme
UPDATED: Bruce Zaccagnini, a lawyer who pleaded guilty to orchestrating bribes to county officials in return for appraisal contracts, was sentenced to five years in prison Tuesday.
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Who's who in Cuyahoga County corruption case
The web of who worked where, who paid a kickback or took a bribe and who is cooperating in the probe is tangled. It's sometimes hard to remember who has been charged, who has pleaded guilty and how long they might be locked up for their deeds.
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Cuyahoga County technology board backtracks on controversial hiring of John Kable as mapping system manager
Chiefly responsible for the reversal was county Recorder Lillian Greene, who had been part of the one-vote majority that chose Kable to replace J. Kevin Kelley.
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Cuyahoga County's pick to replace J. Kevin Kelley draws scrutiny from some officials
John Kable, who will manage the county's geographic mapping system, comes from Michael Baker Jr. Inc., a professional services company that prosecutors have referenced in investigations of Kelley and others.
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Cuyahoga County audits delayed by corruption probe likely to cost taxpayers an extra $250,000 -- and maybe even more
Because the county's 2007 and 2008 state audits have taken so long to finish, millions more dollars could be spent for higher interest payments on money borrowed to build a medical mart and convention center.
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Cuyahoga County commissioners rehire two accountants
A week ago, the accountants received buyouts that will cost county taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in pension fund contributions.
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Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo hires four employees from corruption-tied company
Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo has hired four commercial appraisers from a company whose lawyers admitted paying more than $1 million in bribes to get a contract from Russo.
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Peter Lawson Jones to lead Cuyahoga County commissioners in board's lame-duck year
As expected, Jones' colleagues elected him this morning to serve in the largely ceremonial role -- a position that will allow him to chair meetings this year.
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Gallucci pleads guilty in county corruption probe
Joseph Gallucci pleaded guilty Friday in federal court to conspiracy to commit bribery for running an ineffectual campaign against Cuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo in 2006. Gallucci admitted his payback for getting into the race was a job from his opponent, Russo.
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Lesson from Pittsburgh? After 10 years, Allegheny County officials have mixed reviews of their reformed government
The decade-old style of government earned praise from some but a big dose of skepticism from others.
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Our New Year's resolution: Blogging along as Cuyahoga County transitions to a new charter government
Prepare for a year of political maneuvering and lame-duck governing as Cuyahoga County's charter government unfolds.
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Cuyahoga County employees asked to give Christmas cash to their boss, Lester LaGatta
Past and present subordinates say such solicitations are common in the office, part of the county's Employment and Family Services agency.
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Prosecutor Bill Mason says his office contacted judge on behalf of schoolmate
Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason is the public official who initiated contact with Common Pleas Judge Nancy Margaret Russo in a personal injury case -- contact the judge found so inappropriate that she held a special hearing to discuss it.
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Frank Russo won 2006 Cuyahoga County auditor's race in a breeze by promising opponent a job, feds say
Plain Dealer fileJoe Gallucci Plain DealerCuyahoga County Auditor Frank Russo By Rachel Dissell Plain Dealer Reporter Joseph Gallucci handed the 2006 Cuyahoga County auditor election to incumbent Frank Russo in exchange for an almost...
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Auditor's office employee got job to exit race against Frank Russo
Joseph Gallucci entered and then exited a race for Cuyahoga County auditor in 2006, after making a deal for a job with Frank Russo, the sitting auditor, according to federal prosecutors
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Cuyahoga County sells $163 million in bonds for juvenile justice center, other projects
Cuyahoga County this week sold $163 million in bonds to finance a new juvenile justice center and other projects.
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Two granite dealers plead guilty to bribing officials in corruption probe
Cleveland businessman John Valentin pleaded guilty Wednesday to providing $3,250 in home improvements to Cuyahoga County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora in exchange for helping a friend of Valentin's obtain a visa.
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Cuyahoga County Democratic Party Christmas Party without holiday spirit
The Cuyahoga County Democratic Party's Christmas celebration was devoid of its typical holiday cheer Tuesday night at Massimo da Milano restaurant.
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| Education Law News |
Business news (Suburban Journals)
LAW The Leadership Council Southwestern Illinois has added Belleville-based Mathis, Marifian, Richter and Grandy to its list of members. Representatives from the firm will join other leaders in the business, industry, labor, education and government sectors that work together to encourage business investment and development in southwestern Illinois.
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On the Boards (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
The Foreign Policy Research Institute, a nonprofit education and foreign policy organization, has elected Dov S. Zakheim vice chairman of its board. Zakheim is vice president of Booz Allen Hamilton Inc., McLean, Va., and was undersecretary of defense and
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Community Calendar (Skokie Review)
Based upon space availability, The Review prints calendar announcements and items for columns, including campus news, newsmakers and others for local organizations and individuals. The deadline is 14 days before the desired publication date, however there is no guarantee for publication.
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Greenberg Traurig Announces 2010 Public Interest Fellows (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
The international law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, in alliance with Equal Justice Works, has named its 2010 Fellows. Nine individuals will receive funding though the Greenberg Traurig Fellowship Foundation to provide pro bono legal services to community programs. The public interest law fellowships begin in September and run for two years. The combined classes of 2009 and 2010 will consist of 19 ...
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West Carroll Spelling Bee Winners (The Prairie Advocate)
The annual Spelling Bee at West Carroll Intermediate School was held on Wednesday, January 27, in the Media Center. Sixteen students who had been previous winners in classroom spelling bees were competing that day. Fifth grade teacher Beth Diener acted as pronouncer.
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Court ruling in Riverside case assists in advocacy for special-needs students (The Press-Enterprise)
A recent court decision in a Riverside County case says special-education teachers have the same standing to sue a school district as the special-needs students they serve. The ruling is reminiscent of the access to courts that civil rights workers gained during the 1960s -- the right to take action on behalf of others, even if the workers themselves were not targets of discrimination, one ...
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EP Global Communications, Inc. Welcomes Stephen DeFelice, MD, to Advisory Board (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
EP Global Communications, Inc. , , , , the parent company of Exceptional Parent magazine, is proud to announce that Stephen L. DeFelice, MD, has joined the EPGL Advisory Board. Dr. DeFelice is one of the world's leading authorities on nutraceutical products and is credited for introducing the term "nutraceutical."Â
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Letters to the editor: Hoffman can defeat Kirk in fall (Glenview Announcements)
There is a primary election coming up on Feb. 2, and democrats need to be very concerned about who we will nominate to run for Barack Obama's old Senate seat for two very important reasons.
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Letters to the editor: More talk on New Trier (Wilmette Life)
What is wrong with this picture?
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BRIEFCASE: Boulder, Broomfield, Weld businesspeople in the news (Boulder Daily Camera)
For 50 years of service toward the transportation industry, Harley Keeter Jr. received the Golden Achievement Award from the American Truck Historical Society.
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| Local News Ohio Department of Education |
Columbus schools get $1.25 million for teacher training (The Columbus Dispatch)
The Columbus City Schools can thank their teachers union for securing a $1.25 million gift to attack the achievement gap between minority and white students, and rich and poor students, at 13 high-need schools.
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Happenings (Press of Atlantic City)
FOOD, PERSONAL ITEMS, COOKING ITEMS collected by Atlantic County Sheriff's Department 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. to Feb. 12 at Civil Court House, 1201 Bacharach Blvd.,
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Stimulus funds for high-speed Internet access tangled up (USA Today)
Interest in the $7.2 billion for high-speed Internet in the stimulus package, and objections from providers, overwhelm the agencies in charge.
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Second Baptist Church at forefront of education values (Detroit News)
The church's role in education is deeply rooted in African-American heritage, historians say. People learned how to read the Bible by moonlight. Phonics was taught by pronunciations of Kings in the Old Testament.Children and adults learned math by studying their past through the building of Egyptian pyramids. And Negro spirituals such as "Wade in the Water" provided the first maps for slaves ...
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Norchi Forbes Attorney Speaks at the Great Lakes Higher Education Law Symposium (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)
Kevin Norchi of Norchi Forbes, LLC speaks at the Higher Education Law Symposium at Case Western Reserve University.
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High-school credit can soon be earned outside class (The Columbus Dispatch)
For more than a year, Upper Arlington High School junior Ameya Deshmukh has been working with Ohio State University researchers on discovering a drug that stops nicotine addiction.
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Outdoors Insider, with Dale Sunderlin: A look at proposed deer hunting regulations (Star Beacon)
Hunters in seven northwest Ohio counties will be given a higher deer bag limit if the proposed regulation is accepted by the Ohio Wildlife Council in April, according to the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), Division of Wildlife.
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No Child Left Behind Ohio educators await details on proposed changes (The Marion Star)
It seemed like a good idea at the time. That's how Ohio education officials tend to sum up the federal No Child Left Behind act. Still, they withheld judgment Tuesday on President Barack Obama's plans to overhaul the law, saying they need to see more specifics.
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Newark Digital Academy among lowest-achieving schools in Ohio (Newark Advocate)
NEWARK -- The Newark Digital Academy recently was identified as one of the lowest-achieving schools in the state by the Ohio Department of Education.
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Boater education classes coming to Springfield (West Side Leader & South Side News Leader)
SPRINGFIELD — An Ohio law passed in January 2000 requires boaters born on or after Jan. 1, 1982, to successfully complete either a Boater Education Course or a proficiency exam online to operate boats with 10 or more horsepower.
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| Highly Qualified Teachers |
Math teachers add up $20k in stipends (Inland Valley Daily Bulletin)
MONTCLAIR - Chelsea Diefenbach's idea of fun time is curling up with a good book - a math book that is. "This is how my brain works," said Diefenbach, a first-year math teacher at Montclair High School. "I do most things in equations."
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Report praises Alabama for teacher licensing (The Florence Times-Daily)
By Lisa Singleton-Rickman, Staff Writer In a recently released report by the National Council for Teacher Quality, Alabama was the only state cited nationally for best practices in making teacher licenses fully portable among states, with appropriate safeguards. Alabama leads the nation with reciprocity regarding employment of out-of-state teachers.
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Principals named at three area schools (DeSoto Times-Tribune)
DESOTO COUNTY - New principals at three DeSoto County schools were named Monday as friends and family members looked on during the DeSoto County School Board meeting.
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SC board, volunteer citizen committee prepare for override (The Eloy Enterprise)
As administrators and citizens face the all important override election on March 9, efforts are being made by school officials to get the information out so voters can be as informed as possible.
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A word from Mayor Jackson, 2/4/10 (The Eloy Enterprise)
Byron K. Jackson As mayor, I would like this time to explain to our citizens and voters the importance of two ballot measures that will be on the March 9, 2010 election ballot: Proposition 100 and the Santa Cruz Valley Union High School override. Proposition 100, which is the Extension of the Alternative Expenditure Limitation or the Home Rule Option (HRO), will ultimately decide whether the ...
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Santa Rosa may cut school year, spring sports (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
By KERRY BENEFIELD THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Santa Rosa's school board Wednesday will consider cutting three days from the upcoming school year, along with eliminating spring sports and more than seven librarians, in a quest to save $5.6 million.
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TPSD pre-K will accept tuition students (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
TUPELO - Forty parents can ensure a spot for their children in the Tupelo Public School District's school for 4-year-olds by paying tuition. The Early Childhood Education Center currently serves about 250 students.
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Douglas Fraser on the eurozone's first big crisis (BBC News)
This Westminster election campaign will almost certainly have a notable absentee: we won't have a dispute about the euro.
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The Record: Letters, Feb. 7, 2010 (The Record and Herald News)
Letters on Christie vs. the teachers, Obama vs. the Supreme Court, safety for crossing guards, the deer hunt, autism and mercury, and problems for PSE
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Pentucket teachers propose ways to cut budget (The Daily News of Newburyport)
WEST NEWBURY and mdash; Cut spending on professional development to save teaching positions, educators told the Pentucket Regional School Committee at a meeting Tuesday night. About 50 teachers and parents attended the session, which was billed as a chance for the district's educators to weigh in on a proposed level-funded budget that would slash 39.2 full-time equivalent teaching positions and ...
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| National Special Education News |
Special education director sounds off in national publication (The Daily News of Newburyport)
Special Education director Karen Brann was recently cited in the national publication "Administrator" on issues pertaining to the escalating costs of special education. Brann spoke to a reporter for the latest edition of the magazine about the difficulty schools are facing to fund explosive special education costs in their attempt to educate fairly and wisely in accordance with the law. In the ...
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Special Section: Education / Getting Smarter (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
This Education Planning Guide focuses on how to improve your chance of success in higher education.
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Honolulu Superintendent Explains Special Ed Teachers Making Up Furlough Time (KHON 2 Honolulu)
Are special needs students being cheated out of a fair and complete education? And are teachers using special education opportunities to recoup income lost from furlough Fridays?
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School officials taking steps toward in-house special education (Fall River Herald News)
The possibility of an in-district school to serve special education students who are currently sent out of the city for an education moved a step closer Monday.
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Medford Rep. Paul Donato attends meeting for special education funding needs (Medford Transcript)
Legislators from the Greater Boston area today (Feb. 8) attended a meeting at Farr Academy, a therapeutic day school in Cambridge, to discuss the dramatic funding disparities between state approved special education schools and public schools.
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School of the Osage board to hold special public meetings this week (Lake Sun Leader)
Osage Beach, Mo. — School of the Osage's Board of Education will hold two special public meetings this week for the Communication and Community Involvement Committee and the Planning and Student Achievement Committee.
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Special election Tuesday for EMS, M&O levies; measures pay for emergency medical services, education (Journal of the San Juans)
The 2009 special election to decide whether to extend tax levies for education and emergency medical services is Tuesday. Similar measures are on ballots on Lopez and Orcas islands. A total of 11,154 ballots have been mailed to voters countywide; on San Juan Island, 5,520 ballots were mailed out, Elections Supervisor Doris Schaller said.
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Hampton City Schools' director of special education announces plan to run for School Board (Daily Press)
A Hampton City Schools insider has declared her intention to run for a seat on the School Board in May. Sharon Warren, 53, is the district's director of special education.
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New district promises tailor-made education for all (The Salt Lake Tribune)
A consistently struggling learner is denied access to special education services because her IQ isn't low enough. Or, a student two years ahead in math isn't given a chance to stretch, because he tests too low in reading to be placed in the school's gifted program.
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Special education: Changing our attitudes (Aliran Online)
Khor Ai-Na, Akemi Utsumi and Terri Faust take a peek inside an institution for people with disabilities and learning problems and call for a change of attitude towards special education.
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| Ohio Local School News |
Most Toledo-area schools closed or delayed as winter storm approaches (The Toledo Blade)
BLADE STAFF As the area braces for the first major snowstorm of the season, most Toledo-area schools have closed or have issued two-hour delays. Up to a foot of snow over later Tuesday and early Wednesday is predicted for most of the area. Schools closed include Toledo Public and Catholic, Anthony Wayne, Oregon, Bedford, Maumee, Bowling Green, Washington Local, Perrysburg, Sylvania, Findlay, and ...
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Schools close as snow begins falling (The Columbus Dispatch)
Several area school districts - including Columbus Catholic schools, Dublin, Pickerington, Westerville and Worthington - have canceled classes today as a winter storm begins to drop snow on central Ohio. Drivers may face up to 2 inches of snow as they make their way to work this morning. By the time the storm ends, snowfall totals are likely to reach between 6 and 8 inches.
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Columbus schools get $1.25 million for teacher training (The Columbus Dispatch)
The Columbus City Schools can thank their teachers union for securing a $1.25 million gift to attack the achievement gap between minority and white students, and rich and poor students, at 13 high-need schools.
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Ohio State team wins MBA competition at Wake Forest (Winston-Salem Journal)
A team from Ohio State University won the international case competition at the 2010 Marketing Summit held last week by Wake Forest University Schools of Business.
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Lakota schools to seek two tax levies (The Cincinnati Enquirer)
Voters in Greater Cincinnati's second-largest school system will decide in May whether the Lakota schools should have its first new local tax money since 2005.
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Columbus Schools Get $1.25M To Close Achievement Gaps (WCMH Columbus)
Columbus City Schools are one of only three districts in the nation to be awarded a $1.25 million grant from the National Education Association Foundation. The money is supposed to give teachers more professional development and improve student achievement.
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Columbus Schools To Get Grant To Increase Achievement (WBNS-10TV Columbus)
The state's largest school district receives a $1.25 million grant to increase student achievement at two of its most challenged schools. Get the details.
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Associated Press Monday Morning Ohio Headlines - 2/8/2010 (WLIO NBC Lima)
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Ohioans had better keep the snow shovels handy.
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Boarding schools can help some kids (Detroit Free Press)
The nation's two publicly funded boarding schools pride themselves on having rescued hundreds of at-risk students. The school in Washington, D.C., serves 332 students, and the school in Baltimore serves 160. They opened in 1998 and 2008, respectively.
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Newark Digital Academy among lowest-achieving schools in Ohio (Newark Advocate)
NEWARK -- The Newark Digital Academy recently was identified as one of the lowest-achieving schools in the state by the Ohio Department of Education.
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| National Autism News |
Toys"R"Us, Inc. Expands its Support of Autism Speaks Throughout North America (redOrbit)
WAYNE, N.J., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Toys"R"Us, Inc. and the Toys"R"Us Children's Fund announced they have expanded their support of Autism Speaks to include a fundraising campaign in all of the company's stores in North America.
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Study links autism to mother's age (The Toledo Blade)
LOS ANGELES TIMES LOS ANGELES - Women who give birth after age 40 are nearly twice as likely to have a child with autism as those under 25, but it is unlikely that delayed parenthood plays a big role in the current autism epidemic, California researchers reported yesterday. The findings were expected to draw widespread attention because of the intense public interest in autism, but their true ...
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Study links age of mom to autism (The Washington Times)
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increases substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found. "Although fathers' age can contribute risk, the risk is overwhelmed by maternal age," said University of California at Davis researcher Janie Shelton, the study's lead author. Mothers older ...
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Autism odds rise with older moms (New York Post)
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increases substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, according to a new study analyzing more than 5 million births. "Although fathers' age can contribute risk, the risk is overwhelmed by maternal...
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Study: Autism risks grow for kids of older moms (The Arizona Republic)
LOS ANGELES - Women who give birth after age 40 are nearly twice as likely to have a child with autism as those younger than 25, but it is unlikely that delayed parenthood plays a big role in the current autism epidemic, California researchers reported Monday.
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Study links mother's age to child's risk of autism (Los Angeles Times)
Moms over 40 are nearly twice as likely to have a child with autism, according to the analysis of California births. The study finds that in most cases, the father's age plays little role. Women who give birth after age 40 are nearly twice as likely to have a child with autism as those under 25, but it is unlikely that delayed parenthood plays a big role in the current autism epidemic ...
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Autism risks detailed in children of older mothers (AP via Yahoo! News)
A woman's chance of having a child with autism increase substantially as she ages, but the risk may be less for older dads than previously suggested, a new study analyzing more than 5 million births found.
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Age of mother affects child's autism risk: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Being an older mother significantly increases the risk of having a child with autism, but being an older father only increases the risk when the mother is under the age of 30, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Older mothers' kids have higher autism risk, study finds (CNN)
A 10-year study examining 4.9 million births in the 1990s has found more evidence that there's a link between autism and the mother's age at conception.
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Study confirms link between maternal age and autism (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Women over 40 are nearly twice as likely to give birth to an autistic child than a mother under 30, researchers said Monday in a study that found more evidence of links between autism and maternal age.
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| National News on Reading and Math |
Audit: school district literacy programs on track (Oswego Ledger-Sentinel)
Audit results of a literacy program for grades K-2 in the Oswego School District were presented to school board members last month.
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Schooling in sync; Students work together in reading groups. Teachers work together to identify what students need ... (The Bulletin)
There was a time when, at the start of each day, teachers could enter their classrooms, close their doors, and spend the day teaching with their own rules and their own schedules.Those days are over.A new academic system in place at 10 elementary schools seeks to create schoolwide schedules, rules and curricula that bring students and teachers in each grade together more regularly with the ...
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HILLSBOROUGH: HEF grants launch class programs, school upgrades (Hillsborough Beacon)
The Hillsborough Education Foundation awarded five grants totaling $6,926.55 for school programs this year.
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Tobi Tobias on Dance et al. (Arts Journal)
On Christmas morning last year, I walked the reservoir track in New York's Central Park, since the gym was, naturally, closed for you-know-who's birthday. Hundreds of people, most of them armed with cameras, were strolling around the loop in the delicious sunshine. Few of them were speaking English.
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HIGHER EDUCATION: Balanced world view (The New Straits Times)
International Islamic University of Malaysia’s alumni association members abroad are creating change in government, business and education, reports NURJEHAN MOHAMED.
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Special report: Food for thought (Ottawa Citizen)
Insect and rodent infestations. Undercooked meat. Sloppy dish-washing. Employees who don't clean their hands properly. Those are among the food safety hazards discovered this past year by City of Ottawa health inspectors who check the conditions at restaurants, cafeterias, pizza shops and even hot-dog wagons.
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STAAR test to replace TAKS for student assessment (The Carrollton Leader)
The Texas Education Agency announced Tuesday the new standard in student assessment testing. The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) will be replaced by the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR) beginning in the 2011-2012 school year.
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STAAR test to replace TAKS for student assessment (The Colony Courier-Leader)
The Texas Education Agency announced last week the new standard in student assessment testing. The Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) will be replaced by the State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STARR) beginning in the 2011-2012 school year.
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