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Albertson Foundation cuts school grants after stock drops
Although the stock market overall enjoyed a stellar 1999, attentive investors know that the broad gains in the market masked the fact that many…
Grants:
February Inspired Teacher Scholarships for Visual Learning This two-year-old program, sponsored by …
Computer giants invest $500 million in teacher training
Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., developers of the computer chips and software that make up the majority of the world’s personal computers, announced on…
FYI: New school health and safety resources
School safety report Despite heightened public attention following a surge in multiple homicides in schools, overall school crime rates are declining,…
School ‘gun raffles’ baffle safety experts
At Hobgood Academy in rural Halifax County, N.C., school officials expect to net about $23,000 instead of the hoped-for $4,000 from a week-long gun…
40 steps to a safer laboratory
The Laboratory Safety Workshop offers these 40 suggestions for improving laboratory safety: Steps requiring minimal expense …
Colorado launches statewide school safety plan
A new $1 million program to make Colorado schools safer was introduced Dec. 14, its aim to prevent further tragedies like the massacre at…
Group suggests better safety in lab sciences
As a Lansing, Mich., student returned home from the hospital after being treated for severe burns she received in a high school chemistry experiment,…
Principals and Police use internet to track troubled teens
In the town of Normal, Ill., school administrators and local law enforcement officials are taking steps to ensure that events here live up to…
Educators wonder: Is school violence triggering an exodus of students from our public schools?
There was only one reason Karen Ankerstar moved her family from Colorado to Florida three years ago and eventually enrolled her 15-year-old son in…