Transportation Group Calls For School Bus Safety Improvements
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A transportation group is accusing the state Education Department of not keeping its training programs for school-bus drivers up to date.
The state annually sets aside $400,000 for school-bus-driver safety training through the Education Department and a database of accidents. In 2007-08, more than $159,000 of the total was not spent, said Peter Mannella, executive director [...]
Mesa Police Chief: Education Key To Preventing Crime
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George Gascón, who was named chief of the Mesa Police Department in August 2006, was the guest last week on aztalk Live Talk Wednesday.
Gascón oversees an agency of more than 1,400 employees that covers Mesa’s 133 square miles.
Gascón’s law enforcement career began in 1978 as an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.
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United Way Has New Goals For Education
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The president of the United Way of America announced plans this week to steer money over the next 10 years toward programs related to education, income and health care.
That’s already being done at the United Way of Central Oklahoma, the local organization’s president said Friday from Washington, where he was meeting with elected officials from [...]
FIONA McCADE The hitman and her pension
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For most people, the word retirement conjures up appealing images of slippers
warming by the fire, reduced price admission to many famous attractions, and
the inalienable right to drive around unbelievably slowly on Sundays wearing
a flat, cloth cap.
But if you’re among the 1m Scots due to retire over the next 10 years, be
afraid. Be very afraid, because [...]
New Hanover Schools Face Sports Facilities Review
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Their requests are simple - a water fountain, a warning track, a cleaner bathroom. The Laney softball players aren’t asking for a lush field and hitting complex like the baseball players have, although they dream of that Education News.
As it is now, they have no locker room. Most change in the girls PE locker [...]
Universities fear imminent student drought
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The number of school leavers is expected to plummet over the next 10 years, leaving 70,000 university places unfilled - the equivalent of nearly six universities.Universities will have to compete harder, target more mature students and those from outside the EU to fill seats in lecture halls as a historic dip in the birth rate [...]
NUS drops free education doctrine
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Students today voted to get rid of the principle that the National Union of Students will only argue for free education.The newly-elected president, Wes Streeting, said the union would propose alternatives to the current higher education fees system, which is to be reviewed next year.”The government’s push for different markets has been disastrous. We will [...]
One out one in law for schools which expel pupils
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All secondary schools will be forced by law to take in pupils that their neighbouring schools exclude, the education secretary announced yesterday. Schools will trade the most “challenging” students and pool teachers to tackle growing misbehaviour in the classroom, Ed Balls said.Under the law, schools will form a collective called a “behaviour partnership” in every [...]
An Enlightening Trip to the Countryside
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I have an advantage working as the vice president for government relations at a large state university. Actually, four advantages. I have an ego-enhancing high profile in my local community and among a certain group of people at the state level. I have access to a number of pots of money that can be used [...]
HIV Ignorance Is No Defense in Singapore Plan to Curb Risky Sex
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Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Every weekend, men from Singapore
take a one-hour ferry ride to Indonesias Batam Island for cheap
golf, beer and sex.
About S$70 ($49) hires an island prostitute for the day,
compared [...]
