Education News
First-time juvenile violators of a school's zero tolerance policy would no longer be designated felons under a measure that was unanimously approved by the Senate.
The Fulton County School Board's massive budget cuts, approved on Thursday -- and a possible property tax hike -- are a foreshadow of the lengths other school systems in Metro Atlanta may have to go in order to balance their own budgets.
The projected budget deficit for the 2010-2011 school year of $114 million is not as big as once feared; but still on the chopping block -- the popular band and orchestra program at the elementary schools.
It's like an Olympics for education money, complete with winners and losers as states learned on Wednesday whether they are still in competition for "the gold" -- in this case, a portion of the $4.35 billion in Race to the Top funds.
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