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Floyd Alston, the president of the Philadelphia school board, announced at last week's board meeting that he would resign from the nine-member panel effective Dec. 1.

His impending departure casts further uncertainty on the future of Superintendent David W. Hornbeck, whose tenure could be determined by the outcome of the city's...

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Correction: 
Clarification: In "Suit Over NHS Settled," the settlement between the Grant County, Ky., school district and the American Civil Liberties Union contained a provision stating that the district may consider sexual activity in granting membership in the organization "so long as such consideration does not have the purpose or effect of treating students differently on any of the bases" prohibited by federal sex-discrimination law.

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