Idaho universities to lose $32 million next year
Lawmakers plan to give Idaho’s four-year public universities about $32.1 million less in total funding next year, further slashing the state share of costs for higher education.
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Superintendent in Lawrence indicted
LAWRENCE – School Superintendent Wilfredo Laboy was indicted yesterday on eight counts of fraud and embezzlement alleging that he had school employees complete a variety of personal errands, including providing electrical work at his home in Methuen, hauling away his trash and dumping it on school property, and picking up his grandchildren from school.
Superintendent in Lawrence indicted
LAWRENCE – School Superintendent Wilfredo Laboy was indicted yesterday on eight counts of fraud and embezzlement alleging that he had school employees complete a variety of personal errands, including providing electrical work at his home in Methuen, hauling away his trash and dumping it on school property, and picking up his grandchildren from school.
Judge sides with Arlington in teacher firing
A Superior Court judge has overturned an arbitrator’s decision that an Arlington middle school teacher who was fired in 2007 should be reinstated.
Schools chief warns of closings
A looming budget deficit could lead to the closing of a significant number of Boston schools over the next two years and further reductions in staff, Superintendent Carol R. Johnson said yesterday.
Company’s purchase of N.H. college could earn it $1 billion
ITT Educational Services Inc. paid $20.8 million for debt-ridden Daniel Webster College in June. In return, the company obtained an academic credential that may generate a taxpayer-funded bonanza worth as much as $1 billion.
$2b later, Kansas City, Mo., may close half its schools
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas City was viewed as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate its schools by making them better than the suburban districts where many children were moving. The result was one school with an Olympic-size swimming pool and another with recording studios.
MIT’s levered wheelchair extends freedom to Third World
Some students go to MIT to plumb the mysteries of the atom, or of outer space, or to press the limits of computer science.
The agony of family homework
Family homework. The bane of my existence these days. Most weeks, the kids come home with straightforward assignments they can do on their own, and my job is to make sure they apply backside to desk chair and execute the required task: researching Malcolm X, say, or filling in a multiplication table, or logging the reading they did for the …
Sexting probed as child porn
BELMONT – In the latest apparent case of teens using cellphones to send explicit pictures, police are investigating reports that dozens of students at Chenery Middle School used their phones to circulate a nude photo of an adolescent girl.