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AM News: Osama Face Paint Gets Student Sent Home
Cami Anderson Is Expected to Lead Newark Schools NYT: Mr. Christie could make the announcement, officials said, at a news conference he is scheduled to hold at 11:20 a.m. Wednesday... LAUSD shortens school day for teacher protest LAT: An afternoon union protest on May 13 will not interrupt standardized testing, but schools will be required to make up the lost time later in the year, according to the district... Atlanta Public Schools Board Remaining Hush To Media Til WABE via GS: Board chair Khaatim El made comments regarding the leadership change and suggested outside powers had previously controlled the board... Apple Co-Founder: Computers Will Teach Kids Reuters: "We're getting closer to where you can make devices that become a friend and not just a computerized textbook," he told chip engineers at an event in Silicon Valley on Tuesday... Pa. school to 5th-grader: No face paint over Osama AP: A Pennsylvania woman took her fifth-grade son out of school for the day after administrators decided his face paint marking the death of terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden was too disruptive for class....Grouping Kids by Race or Ethnicity in Charter Schools has Merit, Florida Backers Say AP: They argue that addressing the academic shortcomings of students often means devoting more attention to minorities... NH seeks to turn back clock on anti-bullying law AP: When Leila Pouliot's 6-year-old son, Benjamin, was bullied on the school bus last fall, school officials told her that because he wasn't on school grounds, "there wasn't a whole lot they could do about it."...