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		<title>Education Dept. Discourages Use of Restraints and Seclusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 19:40:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday issued a document that discourages schools from using restraints and seclusion on students. The &#8220;resource document&#8221; outlines 15 principles for states, school districts, and educators to consider with regard to policies on restraints or seclusion. &#8220;These principles stress that every effort should be made to prevent the need for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Teen Sues Over School Holocaust Role-playing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 18:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AMARILLO &#8212; A teen who says he was injured at his Texas Panhandle high school in a Holocaust role-playing exercise has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the school district. Andrew Yara alleges he was seriously hurt in a fall when he was jumped while carrying a classmate on his back two years ago. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ISD PreK to Participate in New Texas “PreK Center of Excellence” Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 15:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Lubbock, TX) Education Service Center (Region 17) is pleased to announce the launch of the new Texas Kindergarten Readiness System (KRS) that recognizes excellence in early childhood education programs across the state. Every ISD PreK program is eligible to participate in the new system at no charge to their school district. “We strongly encourage all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Did school district have a duty to protect student from off-campus violence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 14:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In September of 2011, this column focused on the case of a nine-year-old girl who’d allegedly been sexually abused when an adult who should have been forbidden by school policy from retrieving her from class was permitted to do so on six different occasions. At that time, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 Common-Sense Proposals for Special Education Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miriam K. Freedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Individuals with Disabilities Improvement Act (IDEA) is an example of a statute that has achieved its noble mission but now urgently needs to be fixed in order to address its unintended consequences. Enacted in 1975, IDEA requires schools to provide students with certain disabilities with an entitlement to a &#8220;free appropriate public education&#8221; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Education Board Grapples With Loss of Power Over Textbooks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The State Board of Education, long the gatekeeper to the enormous textbook market in Texas, has lost control over which materials enter public school classrooms. Lawmakers last year passed legislation that untethered the $792 million available for school districts to buy instructional materials from the board&#8217;s approval of those materials. Textbook publishers &#8220;don&#8217;t have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trial Date Set for Texas School Finance Lawsuits</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 20:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AUSTIN, TEXAS — Texas&#8217; school finance lawsuits are set to go to trial Oct. 22. State District Judge John Dietz signed an order Monday establishing the tentative trial date. Four lawsuits on behalf of hundreds of school districts statewide have been filed in response to school finance legislation passed by the Texas Legislature last summer. They [...]]]></description>
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