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By Ben Wieder, Stateline Staff Writer
EDUCATION BEAT: A new survey says many states plan to increase spending on K-12 education this year. Even so, state education spending remains below pre-recession levels.
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By Austin Baird, The Juneau Empire
The Senate Finance Committee heard overwhelming support Wednesday for a proposed increase in education funding.
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AL: Bentley calls for cuts to government, funding and reform for schools
By Brian Lyman, Montgomery Advertiser
Gov. Robert Bentley called Tuesday night for new economic development legislation and special tax credits for teachers, while promising to protect Public Safety, the Department of Corrections and the Department of Human Resources from potentially steep cuts in the state's General Fund.
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AL: Bentley calls for cuts to government, funding and reform for schools
By Brian Lyman, Montgomery Advertiser
Gov. Robert Bentley called Tuesday night for new economic development legislation and special tax credits for teachers, while promising to protect Public Safety, the Department of Corrections and the Department of Human Resources from potentially steep cuts in the state's General Fund.
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AZ: Bill would allow troubled schools to get help quicker
By Brittany Smith, Cronkite News Service
Allowing education officials to immediately assign schools failing grades under Arizona's new system for measuring performance would allow troubled schools to get help faster, a state lawmaker contends.
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CA: Calif. Speaker Pérez wants to cut college costs
By Wyatt Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle
California students from middle-income families would receive massive breaks on tuition and fees at the state's colleges and universities under legislation Assembly Speaker John Pérez plans to introduce today at the Capitol.
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CO: More Colorado graduates than ever not ready for college
By Yesenia Robles, The Denver Post
The number of students from Colorado that complete high school but still aren't ready for college when they are admitted has gone up again, but colleges are doing a better job at helping those students complete the classes and stick around for another year of college.
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CT: Malloy urges new tenure rules for Connecticut teachers
By Peter Applebome, The New York Times
HARTFORD — Gov. Dannel P. Malloy proposed a broad set of education initiatives, including major changes to teacher tenure, on Wednesday in his second State of the State address, a speech that found his efforts split between unfinished business from his first year in office and a new agenda for his second.
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CT: Malloy proposes $50 million increase in ECS funding
By Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, The Connecticut Mirror
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy asked state legislators today to send an additional $50 million to local school districts, a move that school advocates say will cover a small portion of what the state actually owes them.
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CT: Malloy calls for tougher standards for teacher education
By Ken Dixon and Linda Conner Lambeck, Connecticut Post
To put the best teachers in Connecticut classrooms, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced plans Tuesday to toughen standards for university students who want to go into teaching and will offer up to $10,000 in loan forgiveness for those who commit to working in troubled school districts.
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FL: Bills to revamp high school sports spark debate
By Kathleen McGrory, The Miami Herald
What if some high school, let's say a charter school, could openly recruit the next LeBron James out of middle school, pair him with a hyper-talented Dwyane Wade wannabe, snap up a Chris Bosh-like sharpshooter and assemble a super team like the Heat did in free agency last year?
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GA: Republicans, Democrats offer charter school amendments
By Nancy Badertscher and Christopher Quinn, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Republicans scrambled in the face of opposition Tuesday to rework a proposed state constitutional amendment that would reassert the state's right to approve charter schools.
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IA: Iowa Senate Dems vote to spend more on schools
By The Associated Press, The Muscatine Journal
The Iowa Senate voted Tuesday to spend an additional $122 million on public education during the 2013-14 school year, but Republicans who control the House said they won't even debate the measure this year.
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IA: Iowa costs of teaching non-English speakers rising
By The Associated Press, The Muscatine Journal
The cost of teaching non-English-speaking students is skyrocketing in some Iowa schools, and while state funding has increased, local property taxes are paying a bigger share.
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IA: Iowa College Democrats lobby against voter ID bill
By William Petroski, The Des Moines Register
College Democrats and Young Democrats lobbied at the Iowa Capitol Tuesday against a voter identification bill proposed by Secretary of State Matt Schultz, contending the requirements would make it more difficult for students to vote.
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IN: Ind. House panel leader leery of creationism bill
By The Associated Press, Northwest Indiana Times (Munster)
The leader of the Indiana House Education Committee says a proposal specifically allowing public schools to teach creationism in science classes could be unworkable.
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KS: Kansas teachers to deliver pension petition
By The Associated Press, The Lawrence Journal-World
A group of Johnson County teachers is heading to the Kansas Statehouse to deliver signatures they have gathered in protest of plans to change the state employee retirement system.
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MD: Md. is No. 1 in number of graduates who pass AP exams
By Liz Bowie, The Sun (Baltimore)
For the fourth year in a row, Maryland ranked No. 1 in the nation in the percentage of its graduating seniors who successfully passed the rigorous Advanced Placement exams, leaping further ahead of other top states.
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MI: School aid fund expected to see $142 million surplus
By Dave Murray, mlive.com
The state school aid fund is expected to finish the year with $142 million in savings, and potentially $222 million in the black in a year, but lawmakers said it would be a mistake to spend the money right away
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MO: Missouri schools test four-day week
By Elisa Crouch, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
MONTGOMERY CITY, Mo. - When students in Montgomery County schools returned to class last fall, they began doing what some had only dreamed of: skipping school on Mondays.
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MO: MU sees more interest from out-of-state students
By The Associated Press, Jefferson City News Tribune
COLUMBIA, Mo. — The University of Missouri's flagship campus in Columbia says it's receiving more applications from prospective out-of-state students than from Missouri residents.
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ND: Nickname supporters deliver petitions to secretary of state's office
By Chuck Haga, The Forum (Fargo)
After a last, celebratory campaign for signatures at a Bismarck Century-Bismarck High hockey game and from an RV parked outside the Capitol, Fighting Sioux nickname supporters delivered petitions to the secretary of state's office Tuesday night to force a statewide vote on the long-running and controversial issue.
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NM: Voters OK tax levy for schools
By Staff, Santa Fe New Mexican
By a margin of about 3-to-1 in a light turnout, Santa Fe school district voters on Tuesday approved renewal of a mill levy expected to generate about $12.7 million annually from property taxes over the next six years.
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NY: Report -- Student debt could be next economic bomb
By James Goodman, Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester)
Student debt is looming as a national problem that could have repercussions reminiscent of the mortgage crisis, says a new report by the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys. The study, released Tuesday and based on a nationwide survey of 860 bankruptcy lawyers, said that bankruptcy attorneys nationwide are seeing at the ground level "what feels too much like what they saw before the foreclosure crisis crashed onto the national scene."
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OH: Kasich -- Education will lead to new jobs
By Laura A. Bischoff, Dayton Daily News
STEUBENVILLE — Ohio Gov. John Kasich on Tuesday said that jobs in manufacturing, logistics and other industries are moving back, but the state needs to revamp public education and align work force training to match job openings.
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OR: State fund mistakenly overpays schools
By Tracy Loew, Statesman Journal (Salem)
More than $75 million in principal from the state's Common School Fund was mistakenly distributed to schools between 2001 and 2007, a state audit released Tuesday shows.
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OR: Ore. schools fund overdrawn by $76 million
By The Associated Press, Corvallis Gazette-Times
An Oregon state agency improperly distributed $76 million from an account that boosts school funding, an oversight that is likely to decrease money available for schools in future years, auditors said in a report released Tuesday.
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PA: Educators criticize proposed Pa. schools funding
By Kathy Matheson, The Times Leader (Scranton)
PHILADELPHIA -- Educators who say they are still grappling with about $860 million in state cuts this year are criticizing proposed school funding levels in next year's budget, which they contend will cause more hardships on districts statewide.
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PA: Sandusky seeks State College-area jury for trial
By The Associated Press, Erie Times-News
Jerry Sandusky's lawyer filed court paperwork Wednesday arguing that jurors in Sandusky's child sex-abuse trial should be chosen from the community where he lives and suggesting that a trial delay might be the best way to address the intense publicity generated by the case.
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PA: Corbett calls fiscal plan 'lean and demanding'
By Laura Olson and Karen Langly, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Facing a budget deficit that is a half-billion dollars and growing, Republican Gov. Tom Corbett on Tuesday proposed an austere spending plan for next year that would slash millions from state universities and revamp how counties receive aid for human-services programs.
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RI: Cranston West prayer banner is covered with wood
By The Associated Press, The Providence Journal
Lawyers on both sides of a legal battle over a prayer banner at Cranston High School West have agreed on conditions for the display while city officials decide whether to appeal an order requiring its removal.
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SC: Student testing to change
By Diette Courrégé, The Post and Courier (Charleston)
The reading and math tests South Carolina third- through 12th-graders take this spring likely won't exist in three years.
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SD: SD Senate sends school evaluation bill to House
By The Associated Press, Rapid City Journal
In an effort to get South Dakota schools away from No Child Left Behind, senators have passed a bill that sets a new school achievement and financial accountability system to judge performance.
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SD: Governor's education reform bill approved by House panel
By Josh Verges, Argus Leader (Sioux Falls)
Gov. Dennis Daugaard's plan to pay teachers bonuses and phase out tenure passed its first legislative hurdle on a party-line vote Wednesday after two amendments and hours of testimony that pitted teachers against school boards and administrators.
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SD: SD lawmakers begin debate on teacher bonus plan
By Chet Brokaw, The Associated Press, Sioux City Journal
Gov. Dennis Daugaard's plan to give bonuses to the state's top teachers will help improve student achievement in South Dakota's school districts, an aide to the governor said Wednesday.
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SD: Education plan -- New teachers would benefit
By Josh Verges, Argus Leader (Sioux Falls)
Proposed changes to Gov. Dennis Daugaard's education reform bill would limit math and science teacher bonuses to only new professionals, while allowing individual school boards to craft their own plans for teacher performance pay.
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TN: Haslam hears teachers' fears
By Maria Giordano, The Tennessean (Nashville)
BRENTWOOD, Tenn. — If there's one notion Gov. Bill Haslam can take away from his discussion with Scales Elementary School teachers Wednesday, it's their concerns about Senate Bill 2210.
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TN: 'Don't Say Gay' bill delayed in Tennessee House
By The Associated Press, Chattanooga Times Free Press
Opponents of a measure that seeks to ban Tennessee public schools from teaching about gay issues said Wednesday they will continue to show up in large groups to protest the legislation. The proposal, dubbed the "Don't Say Gay" bill, is sponsored by Rep. Joey Hensley and was scheduled to be heard in the House Education Subcommittee.
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US: Obama rekindles state debates on dropout age
By Lesli A. Maxwell, Education Week
President Barack Obama's call for every state to require school attendance until age 18 may spark a flurry of action in some statehouses, but changing attendance laws will do little by itself to drive down the nation's dropout rates, experts on the issue say.
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US: N.J. among 10 states to be freed from 'No Child Left Behind' law by Obama
By The Associated Press, The Star-Ledger (Newark)
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama today will free New Jersey and nine other states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students, The Associated Press has learned.
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US: Florida, 9 other states to get No Child Left Behind waiver
By The Associated Press, The Orlando Sentinel
President Barack Obama on Thursday will free 10 states from the strict and sweeping requirements of the No Child Left Behind law, giving leeway to states that promise to improve how they prepare and evaluate students, The Associated Press has learned.
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UT: Utah Senate passes bill to lower class size
By Lisa Schencker, The Salt Lake Tribune
The Senate passed a bill Wednesday to lower class sizes for young children, despite arguments from some that it could hurt schools because of the cost.
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UT: Bill regarding family-provided school supplies advances
By Molly Farmer, Deseret Morning News (Salt Lake City)
A bill that would allow elementary schools to ask parents to voluntarily provide school supplies for their children unanimously passed out of the House on Tuesday. It now moves to the Senate.
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VA: Suffolk weighs ban on cross-gender clothing for students
By Hattie Brown Garrow, The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk)
The regulations, to be considered by the board tonight, ban clothing "that is not in keeping with a student's gender and causes a disruption and/or distracts others from the educational process or poses a health or safety concern."
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VA: Jeb Bush to help sell McDonnell's K-12 agenda
By Laura Vozzella, The Washington Post
Former Florida governor Jeb Bush will help Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell promote his agenda for K-12 schools Wednesday night by phoning in to a town hall-style meeting with constituents from around the state.
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VA: Home-schoolers are hoping to don varsity jackets in Virginia
By Jere Longman, The New York Times
Patrick Foss is a top teenage soccer player who plans to graduate a semester early and enter the University of Virginia next January. His neighbor is a point guard on the local public high school basketball team in northern Virginia.
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VT: Vermont student math, science scores drop
By The Associated Press, Burlington Free Press
The latest test results released Tuesday show a significant drop in math and science scores when Vermont students enter high school, and the state's education chief said curriculum in some schools may be to blame.
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WI: Wisconsin teachers union endorses Falk
By The Associated Press, La Crosse Tribune
Wisconsin's largest statewide teachers union has endorsed Democrat Kathleen Falk in the possible recall election against Republican Gov. Scott Walker.
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WY: Some ups, some downs for higher ed enrollment
By Aerin Curtis, Wyoming Tribune-Eagle (Cheyenne)
Enrollment at Laramie County Community College continues to grow. The fall semester ended recently with 5,302 students enrolled, according to numbers from the college.
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