Florida school district talks to Sting on iChat AV
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MacCentral - Music students of the Manatee School District in Bradenton, Florida talked to music legend Sting on Friday using Apple's iChat AV, an iSight camera and a PowerBook G4. Sting spoke to students from the Telewest Arena in Newcastle, England an hour before he was to perform a concert for his latest tour.
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He's part of a National Park Service experiment in south Florida to send first-time fishing violators to a school instead of fining them.
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By Rhonda J. Miller, South Florida Sun-Sentinel  Jun. 2--DELRAY BEACH -- Friday may have looked like the last last day of school for three veteran educators at Plumosa Elementary.
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By Cindy Clayton, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Jun. 20--CHESAPEAKE -- Police are looking for vandals who caused $100,000 worth of damage at Sparrow Road Intermediate School during the weekend.
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For several months now, Washington area schools have been taking a hard line on hard candy -- as well as the cookies and cream-filled confections that used to seem like harmless splurges in the course of a child's day. But many parents and health advocates wish schools would devote as much energy to...
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Fairfax County health officials in Virginia warned principals to be on the lookout for students or staff with symptoms of whooping cough.
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A big brother for every pupil A school in Doncaster is piloting a monitoring system designed to keep tabs on pupils by tracking radio chips in their uniforms.â¦
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By Rachel Kyler, Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Sep. 21--"Iwant you to tell me what a mouse is, and don't tell me it's Mickey," said teacher Col. Bob Garcia as he stood in front of a computer lab of eager students.
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BUENA VISTA, Pa. - A school bus driver encouraged students to jump around, throw things and misbehave on her moving bus so she could make an audition videotape for the reality television show "Survivor," police said.
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CHICAGO, Oct. 4 -- After a spate of bloody schoolhouse attacks in the past month, school districts around the country are reviewing their emergency plans. Some are looking for ways to tighten security even as they acknowledge the limits on their ability to stop a determined killer.
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School officials in Harford County, Maryland, are using a robo-dialing service that automatically calls students' homes and plays a prerecorded message if a snowstorm closes schools. By the Associated Press.
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By Eve Samples, The Palm Beach Post, Fla.  Mar. 12--MYSTERY VEILS LATEST PROJECT AT TRADITION: St. Lucie County  recruiters appear to be lacking some creativity when it comes to naming their  top-secret projects.
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The only grade school in this rural town is requiring students to wear radio frequency identification badges that can track their every move. Some parents are outraged, fearing it will take away their children's privacy.
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Anne Arundel County school officials have sent letters home and urged better hygiene after reports of bacterial skin infections among more than two dozen students. But officials say there is no outbreak and no need to panic.
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A health teacher at Argyle Middle School in Silver Spring spoke to eighth-graders yesterday about sexual orientation. And so began a pilot program in Montgomery County schools that delves deeper into issues of sexual and gender identity than most other school systems in the Washington region, if not...
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By Lyndsey Lewis, The Bradenton Herald, Fla.  Feb.
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The Education Department is advising school leaders nationwide to watch for people spying on their buildings or buses to help detect any possibility of terrorism like the deadly school siege in Russia.