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County exec candidates differ on special education (The Journal Times)
Journal Times RACINE COUNTY - A little over three years ago, County Executive Bill McReynolds made the case that county government should get out of the business of running special education programming west of Interstate 94.
State official blasts GOP Education chief says Republicans playing politics with budget crisis (The Jackson Citizen Patriot)
The state’s chief education officer Friday ripped Republicans who say Gov. Jennifer Granholm’s threat of a government shutdown is “just a political ploy.”
Merrifield leaves education chair (Colorado Springs Gazette)
DENVER - Rep. Michael Merrifield, D-Colorado Springs, resigned his chairmanship of the House Education Committee on Friday, a day after publication of a private e-mail in which he harshly criticized supporters of charter schools and vouchers.
House approves sex education changes (The Gazette)
The Iowa House engaged in a little sex talk tonight. More to the point, Rep. Mary Mascher, D-Iowa City, said, House File 611 was about sex education.
Baldwin to help pay for GI?s education (MSNBC)
Actor Alec Baldwin was so moved by the story of an 18-year-old Army soldier who is scheduled to serve in Iraq, he?s going to help pay for her college education after she leaves the military.
Dr. Harold Lief; advocate of sex education; 89 (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Dr. Harold Lief, a leading sex therapist who was an early advocate of having medical schools put greater emphasis on sex education in training doctors, died March 15 at his home in Bryn Mawr, Pa. He was 89.
Schwarzenegger names Riverside superintendent as education secretary (Orange County Register)
David Long began teaching in 1961; he has run Riverside County’s education department since 1999.
Accused student’s special education program eliminated (The Daily Comet)
The special education program attended by a Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School sophomore charged with fatally stabbing a fellow student is being eliminated at the end of the school year because there is no interest in it, school officials say.
Governor taps superintendent to be new education secretary (Contra Costa Times)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday tapped Riverside County superintendent of schools David Long as his new education secretary. A classroom-teacher-turned-administrator, Long is “a great educator who understands education inside and out,” Schwarzenegger said at a Capitol news conference.
UMF Education Center hosting public tours (The Lewiston Sun Journal)
FARMINGTON - Private homes became apartment and office buildings over the years. Now the property at High and Lincoln streets hosts a new Education Center at the University of Maine at Farmington.