Complaint puts Texas teacher on leave
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A popular English teacher has been placed on paid leave Â and faces possible criminal charges Â after a student's parents complained to police that a ninth-grade class reading list contained a book about a murderer who has sex with his victims' bodies.
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What's wrong with the teachers at T.C. Williams High School?
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A State Board of Education member called on textbook publishers to change the wording in health books being considered for use in Texas schools to clearly state that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn&#39;s reputation as a watchdog for the health and education of children is summed up in a needlepoint decoration in her office: &quot;One
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By Denise Wilson  Trenton police have sent a computer to a Dayton crime lab for analysis after a first-grade teacher resigned last week for allegedly viewing pornographic images on the computer in his classroom.
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Camouflage was in and cross-dressing  was out at a rural East Texas school district on Wednesday  after a Christian legal group complained a long-standing school  tradition of reversing social roles for a day would promote  homosexuality.
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An arrest warrant is issued against a teacher accused of distributing child porn over the internet.
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A new public school teacher in North Dakota works for a year on probation before getting job security. For a teacher in Missouri, it's five years. It's just one example of how policies affecting the teaching profession vary from state to state, according to a report by the National Council on Teacher Quality, a private group in Washington.
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Tired of parents pulling their kids out of school for a ski trip or a visit to Disneyland, the local school system is billing them for the missed class time at $36.13 per day.
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A girls&#39; basketball coach who was fired after complaining that his high school team&#39;s facilities weren&#39;t equal to those used by the boys&#39; team should be allowed
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17-year-old is punished for call to school official's home to ask why school had not been canceled.
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MILWAUKEE - A student whose vacation plans were spoiled has sued to end summer homework in Wisconsin, claiming it creates an unfair workload and unnecessary stress.
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By Rebecca Holm, Victoria Advocate, Texas  Feb.
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A teacher in Murray, Ky., has been arrested on drug charges after allegedly organizing a drug sale through a series of text messages.
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By Amy Burroughs, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Feb. 24--MURRAY, Ky. -- A Murray Middle School teacher was suspended with pay Friday after she was accused of inadvertently trying to buy marijuana from a Kentucky State Police trooper.
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The school district that runs the nation's largest merit pay program gave oversized bonuses to nearly 100 teachers and is asking them to give it back. The president of Houston's largest teachers' union is telling members not to return the overpayments, which range from $62.50 to $2,790.
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Teachers are told they cannot spend more than 38 hours a year covering for sick colleagues.