Family News Corner
Family and parenting news feeds from reliable sources.
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Kids cooled off with water spray at school
EDDINGTON, Maine (NEWS CENTER)-- For the kids at the Eddington Elementary school Thursday is going to be a day to remember. The kids cooled down after firefighters sprayed them with water from their fire truck.
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Back-To-School: Getting Kids Back Into Homework Mode
A lot of kids start school next week, and education experts say switching from the lazy days of summer back to homework mode can be tough. So how can parents get their kids back into the school mindset?
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Kids encouraged to sign up for meals programs
Kids across Mid-Michigan will head back to school in just a couple of days.
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New and exciting after school activities for kids
With the kids heading back to school, parents are looking for new and exciting ways to keep them active and busy in the afterschool hours. Here are some different ways to do that. Roller Derby - The sport is growing exponentially and now is the time to get involved! I-5 Roller Girls www.i5rollergirls.com Cooking Lessons for Kids - have you ever wished that your ...
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School Wi-Fi Making Kids Sick, Say Ontario Parents
A school board says it will continue providing wireless Internet access in classrooms despite some parents? concerns.
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Kindergarten population boom slowing
The recent kindergarten population boom in Montclair's School District may be coming to an end. After years of steady growth, district officials say they are seeing signs that their kindergarten population has leveled off and could be decreasing.
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Kindergarten age cutoff rises
This school year, a child can start kindergarten as long as he or she turns 5 by Dec. 2. In the 2014-15 school year, children will have to turn 5 by Sept. 1, thanks to a bill approved late Tuesday night by the state Legislature.
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Kindergarten may be delayed for O.C.'s youngest
The state Senate approved a bill to delay kindergarten for thousands of public school children. The bill, approved this week 21-15, would require children to have turned 5 by Sept. 1 to begin kindergarten in that school year. The current cutoff date...
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Kindergarten enrichment offered in Long Valley
WASHINGTON TWP. ? The Musconetcong Valley Community Association is accepting registrations for the 2010-11 ?Kindergarten Kids? enrichment program in Long Valley.
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Kindergarten teacher always improving
Pat Johnson decided to become a teacher late in her senior year of college. Although that decision meant an extra year of schooling, she?s happy she made it.Johnson, a kindergarten teacher at Bradford Schools, just started her 39th year of teaching.
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Apology to breast-feeding mom
The Crawford County sheriff's office has apologized to the mother ordered out of a Crawford County courtroom by a bailiff because she was breast feeding. [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
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Peculiar Perps: Dog Days Deliver Deranged Delinquents
"Well, the Fourth of July is over! The people are all gone and I am tired out." - Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "The Yellow Wallpaper" The manager of the meat section at D'Agostino market on Greenwich Street in the West Village suffered a human bite to his arm sometime after 2 p.m. on Monday, July 26, when he witnessed 27-year-old Zachary Davis-Kelly...
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Union backs contract for Seattle teachers
Seattle Public Schools and its teachers union reached tentative agreement on a contract that allows student test scores to be used to evaluate teachers.
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Schools lengthen student supply lists to help meet higher costs
If you think your kids' school-supply list is getting longer, you're probably right. Cash-strapped school districts are requiring parents and often teachers to provide school supplies that now may include things like more than enough pencils for the entire class to Clorox wipes.
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Protecting kids from marketers' clutches
Coming soon to your daughter's sleep-over party: viral marketing. It sounds ominous, and it is. Viral marketing is when a manufacturer gives products away in the hope of creating a buzz that spreads via the peer group. It's already infiltrated the adult world, and now it's targeting our children.
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L.A. civic leaders urge LAUSD, union to revamp teacher evaluations
The group, including the presidents of the L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce and United Way of Greater L.A., urges the use of student test score data and more access to information about instructors for families.
A group of business and civic leaders is urging the Los Angeles school district and teachers union to quickly develop a new evaluation system that incorporates student test score data and gives families more access to information about instructors.
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L.A. Unified board makes first statements about test score analysis of teachers
Most members say the current way of evaluating teachers needs to be reworked; some add parents deserve more information about instructors. Some criticize The Times' publication of database.
Los Angeles school board members made their first public statements Tuesday about evaluating teachers partially by analyzing student test scores, with most saying that the current system needs to be reworked and some adding that parents deserve more information about their children's teachers.
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L.A. Unified moves to close charter school over alleged misuse of $2.7 million
An audit finds that the founding principal at NEW Academy Canoga Park allegedly misused or misappropriated money, depositing funds into an Ameritrade account and claiming payments to a nonexistent company.
Los Angeles schools Supt. Ramon C. Cortines has moved to shut down a San Fernando Valley charter school over the alleged theft or misuse of as much as $2.7 million by the school's founding principal.
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UC retirement funds face a shortfall of more than $20 billion, report says
A panel recommends increasing contributions by employees, raising the retirement age for new hires and reducing some benefits.
The University of California retirement system faces a shortfall of more than $20 billion, according to a new report, and a task force of administrators and employees is recommending changes to help fix the problem.
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Teachers blast L.A. Times for releasing effectiveness rankings
The Times made public an analysis of L.A. Unified third- through fifth-grade teachers based on student test scores.
National and local teachers unions sharply criticized The Times on Sunday when the newspaper published a database of about 6,000 third- through fifth-grade city school teachers ranked by their effectiveness in raising student test scores.
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