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Idaho Education Network stirs up more controversy
The $60 million Idaho Education Network became the focus of another fight Wednesday, with some local Internet service providers demanding it be put on hold because they're being excluded from the project and the state budget chief warning lawmakers against delays.
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Early Glance: Education companies
NEW YORK (AP) -- Shares of some top education companies are mixed at 10 a.m.: Apollo Group rose $.22 or .3 percent, to $63.58. Career Education fell $.03 or .1 percent, to $29.89. DeVry rose $.11 or .2 percent, to $65.91. Strayer Education rose $.60 or .2 percent, to $242.43.
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Texas education board's social studies vote may have wide impact
Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide.
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State Board of Education continues debate over standards for social studies
AUSTIN - State Board of Education members resumed their volatile debate over social studies standards Wednesday as the panel neared its first vote on what Texas students will be taught in U.S. history, government and other classes over the next decade.
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Education : appel à la grève dans les collèges et lycées vendredi
L'intersyndicale SNES-FSU, FO, CGT, Sud-Education, FAEN et SNALC des personnels des collèges et lycées appelle à une grève nationale vendredi contre les suppressions de postes -plus de 16.000 prévues en 2010 dans l'Education- et les réformes du gouvernement dans le second degré.
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Education: appel à la grève dans les collèges et lycées vendredi
L'intersyndicale SNES-FSU, FO, CGT, Sud-Education, FAEN et SNALC des personnels des collèges et lycées appelle à une grève nationale vendredi contre les suppressions de postes -plus de 16.000 prévues en 2010 dans l'Education- et les réformes du gouvernement dans le second degré. Une soixantaine de manifestations sont prévues un peu partout en France, selon les syndicats.
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Gov seeks 33% tax hike for education, billions in spending cuts
Uncorking a risky election-year gambit, Gov. Quinn on Wednesday proposed a 33 percent increase in the state income tax to avoid "sacrificing the future of a generation of children." Quinn's push to hike the tax on Illinois workers' paychecks from 3 percent to 4 percent came with a promise to devote all of the $2.8 billion in new annual revenues to education.
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Spouse education program payouts to resume Saturday
ARLINGTON, Va. — A program that offers up to $6,000 to military spouses for education-related expenses will resume on Saturday, but it will not accept new applicants, a Defense Department spokesman said.
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