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St. Louis public school officials say they might open up to six schools this fall to absorb up to 3,800 children now attending the Imagine charter schools slated to close next month, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
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Thirteen people have been charged with crimes in the death of a Florida A&M University drum major who was severely beaten during a hazing ritual, The Tampa Bay Times reports.
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The principal of Clayton (Mo.) High School has announced her resignation after suspicions were raised that she created a Facebook page using a fictitious identity to monitor the activities of students at the school, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.
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The Washington, D.C., school system has notified 333 teachers that their jobs have effectively been eliminated because of changes in budget, enrollment or academic programs, The Washington Post reports.
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Faced with a nearly $700 million budget deficit, the Chicago school system is proposing a capital spending budget for the coming fiscal year of $110 million, a sharp drop from this year's $660 million, The Chicago Tribune reports.
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Consolidation discussions between the Willow Run and Ypsilanti school districts in Michigan have been intensifying, The Detroit Free Press reports.
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The Tennessee Legislature has passed a bill designed to allow as many as six municipalities to create school systems separate from the merged Memphis-Shelby County district, but
opponents say they are prepared to mount a legal challenge to block any new districts, The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.
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Officials at La Salle-Peru Township High School in La Salle, Ill., have discovered that an unused pipe organ in a school auditorium is valued at more than $1 million, The LaSalle News-Tribune reports.
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A 5-year-old legal dispute between the DeKalb County (Ga.) School District and a construction management company has cost the district $37 million so far in legal fees, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
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National Express Corporation and Petermann Partners Inc. will divest several school bus contracts and associated assets in the states of Washington and Texas so that the companies' proposed merger may proceed.
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Stats Corner
Number of iPad2 tablet computers that the San Diego Unified District is buying to outfit 340 classrooms.
Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Construction Corner
The University of California, Berkeley, has won a $60 million grant to establish a center for theoretical computer science that eventually will be housed in a remodeled Calvin Hall on the Berkeley campus, The San Francisco Chronicle says.
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Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro has begun construction on a long-awaited $147 million Science Building, The Nashville Tennessean says.
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Calendar
May 17-19: American Institute of Architects, 2012 National Convention, Washington, D.C.
June 11-13: NeoCon 2012, 44th Annual National Exposition of Contract Furnishings, Chicago
June 11-14: National Fire Protection Association, Conference and Expo, Las Vegas
For more upcoming education-related events and conferences, visit our online calendar.
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