Portugal begins school year with schools shut after computer glitch
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Thousands of students in Portugal were forced to stay home on what should have been the first day of the new academic year because the education ministry failed to assign some 50,000 teachers to their schools on time due to a computer glitch.
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Last year, officials at Henrico County Public Schools in Virginia set out to provide a laptop computer for every student in the county's nine high schools.
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By Gregory Ramey Cox News Service  DAYTON, Ohio -- Many of our children have just started a new school year, and parents are trying to figure out how to help their students be academically successful.
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Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio calls an early general election to end "crisis of credibility".
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CAMAS, Wash. - Police and school officials in Camas are using a computer game to teach students about Internet predators. Beginning this month, all sixth graders in the school district will spend a day using
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LISBON, Dec 1  Portugal appeared headed for early elections today after the president said he had lost confidence in the 4-month-old government of Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes.
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Back to school for many kids means  "back to Internet access" in classes where the best of  filtering software is not foolproof, particularly against  seemingly harmless Web sites used for invasive marketing.
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Millions of children have poured into schools as country after country has made primary education free.
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Commercial aviation returned to normal Wednesday morning after an apparent computer glitch disabled radios and radars at a US air traffic control center in southern California, disrupting flight schedules nationwide.
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Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio has decided to dissolve parliament and call early elections amid a crisis provoked by the resignation of the minister for youth and sport, Prime Minister Pedro Santana Lopes said.
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A calendar glitch made the back-to-school season look worse than it really was.
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More than 2,000 schools across Wales and England are forced to close by the heaviest snowfall for years.
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A London school is told it must close despite making good progress and coming out of special measures.
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Three schools closed until Monday because of an outbreak of flu-like symptoms, an official said Thursday.
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Connecticut students find themselves in the national spotlight when their principal shuts down their play.
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A bomb threat shut down an entire Virginia school district Thursday, canceling classes for more than 7,200 students in eight public schools, as well as hundreds more in area religious schools and child care centers.
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Typewriters were dusted off, hand-held radios were tested, and Anne Arundel County employees reported having to walk between offices rather than sending e-mails yesterday after a virus led to the shutdown of more than 2,500 computers.