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Nebraska's top election official might try to remove a ballot measure to repeal school funding law
The Nebraska Supreme Court appears set to decide if voters get to determine whether to reject a new law pushed through largely by Republican lawmakers to provide taxpayer money for private school tuition. But depending on how they rule, the Nebraska Secretary of State could unilaterally deprive...
A suspect is in custody after a teen is critically hurt in a shooting at a Nebraska high school
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Omaha police arrested a suspect about half an hour after a shooting Tuesday that critically injured a teenage boy at a high school in Nebraska's largest city. Families rushed to Omaha Northwest High School after the shooting was reported by the school resource...
Most students in a Georgia district return to class nearly a week after a school shooting
WINDER, Ga. (AP) — Many students in Georgia's Barrow County headed back to class Tuesday, six days after a shooting killed two teachers and two students at the school district's Apalachee High School northeast of Atlanta. No return date has been set for the 1,900 students at that...
Head of state children’s cabinet named New Mexico’s new public education secretary
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Mariana Padilla has been named New Mexico’s new Public Education Department secretary for K-12 schools, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Tuesday. Padilla replaces Arsenio Romero, who resigned Aug. 28 after about a year and a half on the job. ...
Texas school districts say upgrades to the state’s student data reporting system could hurt funding
Upgrades to the system Texas uses to collect student, staff and financial data from school districts are causing serious concerns among school administrators and data specialists across the state who say the changes have led to thousands of unresolved errors that could potentially cause them to...
Pitt fires athletic director Heather Lyke months before her contract was set to expire
PITTSBURGH (AP) — The University of Pittsburgh has fired athletic director Heather Lyke, a somewhat surprising move that came a few months before Lyke's contract was set to expire. Pitt chancellor Joan Gabel made the announcement Monday. While Gabel thanked Lyke for...
Trump said fixing child care would not be very expensive. Here are price tags for other proposals
Asked recently how he would bring down the high cost of child care, former President Donald Trump said doing so would be relatively “not very expensive” — at least, not compared with revenue from tax hikes he would impose on foreign goods. Economists are skeptical tariffs would...
Many questions still loom over timeline of Georgia school shooting
ATLANTA (AP) — Many questions in last week's Georgia school shooting are still unanswered, including how the suspect brought a semiautomatic assault rifle to the campus of Apalachee High School and what may have motivated the violence. The shooting Wednesday in Winder, northeast of...
North Carolina House Rep. Jeffrey Elmore resigning before term ends
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A longtime advocate for Republican K-12 education policies in the North Carolina House is resigning from his seat a few months before his term was to end. Rep. Jeffrey Elmore of Wilkes County, who joined the House in 2013, will step down effective Friday...
A former NYC school food chief is sentenced to 2 years in a tainted chicken bribery case
NEW YORK (AP) — The former head of food services for New York City public schools was sentenced to two years in prison on Monday for a bribery scandal that resulted in children being served chicken tenders contaminated with metal and bone. Eric Goldstein, the former school food...
