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Officials move to reassure parents with new law in effect requiring data collection on immigration status of students.
October 7, 2011 - Education Week
The U.S. Supreme Court's new term includes a case involving the "ministerial exception" for teachers at religious schools.
October 3, 2011 - Education Week
After suffering legislative setbacks, unions and other critics of states' new education laws sue to overturn them.
September 27, 2011 - Education Week
September 26, 2011 - McClatchy-Tribune
The new law requires incoming freshman, beginning this school year, to take at least one course online prior to graduation.
September 20, 2011 - Education Week
The state board of education gave initial approval to a rule requiring high school students to take at least two credits online to graduate.
September 20, 2011 - Education Week
A Pierce County Superior Court judge said in court Monday morning he might authorize the Tacoma School District to hire replacement workers if striking teachers do not return to work as he ordered Wednesday.
September 19, 2011 - McClatchy-Tribune
The attorney for a family suing Chicago Public Schools over the alleged handcuffing of a first-grader in 2010 said Tuesday the boy was among several 6- and 7-year-olds who were detained and handcuffed for hours for talking in class.
August 31, 2011 - McClatchy-Tribune
The former Orange County high school student pleaded guilty to two felony counts of commercial burglary and one felony count each of altering public records, among other charges, court records show.
August 29, 2011 - Education Week
The teaching expert used a Denver courtroom Friday afternoon to give a seminar on teaching best practices and implementation of standards-based reforms
August 22, 2011 - Education Week

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