To Draw Top Teachers to Troubled Schools, Foundation Will Offer $30,000 Stipends
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The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation launched a $17 million effort yesterday to improve teacher education and steer highly qualified teachers to high-poverty and struggling schools.
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If Doreen Seelig pocketed all the money she has spent on classroom supplies over 35 years as a teacher &#151; the printer cartridges, the paper, the pencils and the paperback books lent to her Venice High School students &#151; she figures she would have a new car by now.
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The Manhattan School of Music is trying to get out of the shadow âof that other school.â
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The BBC's Mike Baker asks whether teachers in difficult schools should get more money.
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By Mark Guydish, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Sep. 16--LEHMAN TWP. -- Lake-Lehman School District is one of only 74 districts nationwide to get a chunk of   $23 million in grants designed to beef up the district's ability to handle large-scale emergencies.
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Author Patricia Cornwell announced she is giving &#36;20,000 more to fund scholarships for law enforcement officials attending the University of Tennessee's National Forensics Academy.
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Private schools could lend teachers to state schools under proposals by Education Secretary Alan Johnson.
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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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The countries plan to raise at least $300 million next year to help pay for the treatment of children with AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.
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DURHAM, NC -- Two students from the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics will split $100,000 in scholarship money. The award is a prize for their cancer research.
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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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Money given to schools to support pupils who have special educational needs should be ring fenced, campaigners say.
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Two of the nation's largest charitable foundations announced plans Monday to work together to improve education in developing countries in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.
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State District Judge John Dietz declared Texas&#39; public school funding system unconstitutional last Wednesday. Dietz said the $30 billion funneled into public schools each year by the state is inadequate to foot the educational bill.
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Families who struggle to find the best secondary school for their children receive extra support and advice.
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Officials are considering plans to hire private groups at taxpayer expense to manage scores of public schools.
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By Mike Fitzgerald, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  May 28--EAST ST. LOUIS -- A state agency plans to spend $550,000 to fix up the old Lincoln High School to make space for a sewing training program for chronically unemployed adults.