Chevron Dons Santa Hat: Millions Given to School Districts
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By Mary Perez, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Dec. 15--PASCAGOULA -- Chevron awarded the first of $18 million in Energy for Learning grants Thursday to pay for technology and programs that will directly affect students in more than 95 schools in South Mississippi.
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By Andres Oppenheimer, The Miami Herald  Feb. 18--Andres Oppenheimer   Several Latin American countries are about to make their most ambitious investment in education ever -- giving out millions of $150 laptop computers to schoolchildren.
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By Tiffany Erickson Deseret Morning News  Davis School District leaders want students to get the most out of the district's computers and taxpayers' money by refurbishing older computers and giving them to students.
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In recent years, thousands of the nation's teachers have claimed a deduction of up to $250 on their federal income tax returns for out-of-pocket costs for crayons, construction paper and other classroom supplies.
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It&#39;s the real thing: $500,000 for William T. Dwyer High School during the next seven years. Administrators just finished negotiating a new contract with Coca-Cola, which will have exclusive
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A federal program to teach reading pressured schools to adopt a specific approach in order to receive funding.
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LOS ANGELES -- The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will give $1.9 million in hopes of improving student achievement in up to eight schools in the Los Angeles and Central Valley areas, it was announced Tuesday.
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By Cherish Wilson, The Star, Shelby, N.C.  Feb. 17--SHELBY -- Some of the county's poorest schools are set to  benefit from a recent multi-million dollar settlement in a class-action  lawsuit against Microsoft Corporation.
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When Greenville County in South Carolina borrowed $800 million two years ago to expand its public schools, insurance broker Marsh &amp; McLennan Cos.
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Eleven school districts filed a lawsuit Thursday aimed at forcing the state to pay more for special education. The school districts, including Bethel and Federal Way, collectively represent more than 20,000 special-education students.
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During these tough budget times, schools don't often pass up a check for &#36;10,000. But that's just what one Idaho charter school has done &#151; to set a moral example for students.
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The city's public school district will use a grant funded through the No Child Left Behind Act to help students become healthier and fight obesity.
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Area legislators and school leaders are ready for the Texas Legislature to formulate a new school finance plan, hoping for an improvement over the &quot;Robin Hood&quot; plan deemed unconstutitional by a state district judge Wednesday.
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The transfer of technological innovations from the campus to the capitalist marketplace has been a financial windfall for many schools.
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Endowments at some independent schools have become so big that trustees have hired full-time money managers.
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By NO BYLINE  SCHOOLS across East Lothian are to spend a Scottish Executive cash injection on new books, computers and musical instruments.   A total of GBP 742,000 was set aside for the county's schools out of a national pot of GBP 40 million announced last November.
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Tired of watching Macs getting pushed out of classrooms across the country in favor of cheaper but inferior PCs? Pete Mortensen has organized a fund-raising drive to buy Macs and other Apple products for needy school districts. Give 'til it hurts. From the Cult of Mac blog.