Report: School slayings down from 1990s
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About 16 students are murdered at U.S. schools each year, says a new government report that shows the number and rate of slayings has held steady and is lower than in the previous decade.
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WASHINGTON - The Education Department has advised 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.    The warning follows an analysis by the FBI and the Homeland Security Department of the siege that killed nearly 340 people, many of them students, in the city of Beslan last month...
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The number of terrorism cases   brought by the U.S. government has dropped steadily in recent   years and an increasing proportion are dropped due to lack of   evidence, according to a new study.
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A high school in northeastern Arizona was locked down Wednesday after a student reported seeing weapons on school grounds, an FBI spokeswoman said.
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Virginia Tech University officials should have been quicker to notify students and faculty about two killings on campus hours before the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, according to a state report obtained by The New York Times on Wednesday.
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Authorities crack down on many of the schools, which operate outside the public system and whose quality varies.
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Violent crime against students in schools fell by 50 percent between 1992 and 2002, with young people more often targeted for violence away from school.
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The federal government has fallen back to prosecuting international terrorists at about the same rate it did before Sept. 11, according to a study based on Justice Department data.
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Accountability is a popular concept, but a poll finds Americans hesitant to punish schools for poor results.
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MOSCOW, Sep 4 (IPS) - The killings at the Beslan school in Russia are  only the gravest  in a long campaign of attacks and hostage  taking by Chechen separatists.
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The number of violent crimes reported nationwide dipped slightly in the first half of 2007, signaling the first notable decline in violence in two years, the FBI said today.
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A significant proportion of teachers think the standard of A-level and GCSE marking has deteriorated.
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The FBI says violent crime was down by a fraction in Florida last year compared to 2002. Nationally, every type of violent crime fell last year with one notable exception: Murders were up for the fourth straight year.
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The schools, created in the 1960s, have been marked by low test scores, poor attendance and inadequate facilities.
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A day after New Jersey banned executions, newly released figures show that capital punishment dropped this year to a 13-year low.
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A new federal report shows that non-fatal violence dropped dramatically between 1992 and 2002.
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Obama's comparison of student deaths in one city and soldier deaths in another is bad math -- but maybe good politics