It's Vacation Bible School time

Middletown Journal, OH

It's vacation Bible school time in Butler County, and area churches are opening their doors offering fun activities for children this summer. Songs, crafts and snacks are the mainstay of this annual tradition. Decorating for EDGE started last Sunday, ...

Church Lady: Vacation Bible schools a success on Marco Marconews

Church notes Rogers Hometown News

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All the City's a Stage, and All the Admissions Free, This Time of Year

New York Times, United States

continuum company in Herbert Von King Park in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, this company, made up of alumni from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, is doing an 85-minute version of A Midsummer Night's Dream with five actors playing all ...

How Often Are You Texting?

WSET, VA

A new study shows that as many as a quarter of the texts sent during school time , are contributing to cheating. All this texting has a medical effect too. Doctors say it contributes to anxiety, falling grades and sleep loss, because many teens are ...

Militia Adds Fear To Time of Unrest

Washington Post, United States

Training and membership are often informal, said Gary Sick, an Iran expert at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, adding that some who carry out activities associated with the Basij may not be official members at all. ...

Rain doesn't dampen the story lines at the US Open

USA Today

Among those at 1 under was Jeff Brehaut, a 46-year-old journeyman, who had to go to qualifying school 13 times to finally make the PGA Tour. He's played 11 holes as much as anyone and there he is, at the top of the board. ...

San Jose expected to raise class sizes from 20 to 30 kids in early ...

San Jose Mercury News,  USA

School officials say the unpopular move would save the 32000-student district at least $6 million; the board is expected to tentatively approve the proposal Thursday. Several other local superintendents say they will allow class sizes to creep up as ...

New life for a new downtown library? San Diego Union Tribune

'I've Got to Say, I'm Baffled' Voice of San Diego

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Study: Dads Spending More Time With Kids

WJLA, DC

But he also makes time to visit his kids at school . "I used to have Fridays off and work the weekends, so I would go into school for lunch/recess," Armstrong said. A new survey from the National Center for Gathering and The National PTA reveals dads ...

Girl Sexually Assaulted Near School ; Regional Panel Endorses ...

Washington Post, United States

It also was the first time the board, an arm of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, has supported an east-west rail line that would connect spokes of the Metrorail system, said Ronald F. Kirby, the council's transportation planning ...

School systems juggle expenses to stay on road

Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA

By Kristina Torres Just in time for the start of classes: Record rising fuel costs are eating up school budgets at a greater pace than ever. Georgia school systems expect to shell out about 60 percent more per gallon than this time last year for school ...

school year begins Atlanta Journal Constitution

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Doctors' Pay, a Key to Health Care Reform

New York Times, United States

Elliott S. Fisher, a professor of medicine, is director of the Center for Health Policy Research at Dartmouth Medical School . There are huge regional variations in health care spending and in the growth of health care costs. Yet low-spending regions ...

Video: Cost a Major Issue As Senate Starts Health Care The Associated Press

Health care reform debate: Indiana University experts offer ... Indiana University

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School bus traffic sting generates tickets, controversy in South ...

Los Angeles Times, CA

The South Pasadena Police Department first decided to set up the sting in the area after receiving a complaint from the parents of a disabled child who boards a school bus on Huntington, Police Chief Dan Watson said. They've had a difficult time ...

Time capsule takes Mid-Smithfield Elementary students back to 1960

Pocono Record, PA

Keith R. Stevenson/Pocono Record By Beth Brelje A moldy cheese sandwich and a long hidden report card were not among the items found Monday in a Middle Smithfield Elementary School time capsule. The capsule was removed from the cornerstone of the ...

Schools won't go to 4 days next year

Quartzsite Times, CA

As published in the Times Feb. 11 edition, following a community question and answer and budget advisory meeting, it was reported a four-day school week was discussed as a backup alternative. Jensen did state at the time that a four-day school week was ...

Wellesley middle school student charged with making bomb threats

Boston Globe, United States

We have learned during this time that the information circulating through our community is often inaccurate. It is also important to remember that we are dealing with a child, a child who may return to school next year. We want the student to return to ...

Bangladesh switches to daylight saving time

The Associated Press

... a school teacher in Dhaka. "It may prove difficult to make people to observe the new system." The government said it is using television ads and distributing handbills across the country to encourage people to switch to the new time . ...

Four generations of Mansfield High School grads

Mansfield News, MA

Everett Robinson is the man after whom the Robinson School is named. Dorothy has been wearing her MHS class ring since she graduated 77 years ago. It's 10-karat gold and cost $7.50 at the time . Her prom dress cost $2. At that time , the high school was ...

School systems often feel pressure from TADs

Atlanta Journal Constitution,  USA

She was not sure what happens next for the school system. "We want to give [legal counsel] time to really, really sort through the decision," Butler Burks said. Staff writer Diane R. Stepp contributed to this report.

Cardinal's nephew says priest abused him

United Press International

John McDevitt, a religion teacher at Father Judge High School for Boys, abused Richard Green for six months in 1990 and 1991, the New York Post reported Thursday. At the time , O'Connor, who died in 2000, was the most powerful Catholic leader in the ...

Late cardinal's nephew claims abuse by priest The Associated Press

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Block Island names Hicks to school post

South County Independent, RI

His obvious leadership and experience is big to us, said School Committee Chairman William Padien. We had a tough year this year and needed strong leadership to straighten things out. Ryan resigned after coming under fire for a time -out room in ...

Social studies curriculum revised to be more diverse South County Independent

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BLOG: Time for Whitlock to get serious

The State, SC

But it's time for Whitlock to decide what is most important to him. Is it his family and football (and by extension, school )? Or is it clubbing and hanging out? If he decides it's the former, he can start by getting serious in school this summer. ...