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Nearly 60 Percent Won't Graduate At South Side Bradwell Elementary School; Are Parents To Blame?

cbs2chicago.com • Wed 2009 Jun 17, 4:34pm

A startling number of children are falling through the cracks at one Chicago Public School. More than half of the kids didn't even pass the eighth grade.

High school student who wouldn't stop using cell phone Tasered

postgazette.com • Fri 2009 Jun 5, 5:17pm

At Penn Hills High School this morning, Chief Burton said, a student was walking up and down a hallway, using a cell phone. School policy permits students to have cell phones but not to use them during school except in emergencies, Chief Burton said. A Penn Hills police officer told him to put the phone away and go to class. "The kid refused to listen," Chief Burton said. "The officer took him by the arm and said, 'You have to go to the office.' The student resisted, pushed the officer. The officer, defending himself, took out his stun gun and did a drive stun." Chief Burton said a drive stun involves pushing the Taser against a portion of the body and squeezing the trigger, thus immobilizing a portion of the body, such as the leg

School expels third-grader for 'hit list'

journal-news.com • Fri 2009 May 1, 12:59pm

A third-grader was expelled from a local private school after a "hit list" of students and a teacher was found in his desk.

10 drink windshield wiper fluid at Ark. day care

wtfiwwp.com • Fri 2009 Mar 13, 11:38pm

Ten children at a day care center drank windshield wiper fluid after a staffer served it from a container mistaken for Kool-Aid and placed in a refrigerator, ... Doctors estimate the children, ages 2 to 7, drank about an ounce of the blue fluid ... Only one child remained hospitalized Friday morning, after blood samples showed "measurable levels" of methanol,...

Public Schools Outperform Private Schools in Math Instruction

sciencedaily.com • Wed 2009 Mar 4, 9:46pm

a team of University of Illinois education professors has found that public-school students outperform their private-school classmates on standardized math tests, thanks to two key factors: certified math teachers, and a modern, reform-oriented math curriculum.

Marijuana smell saturates school bus

scntx.com • Sat 2008 Nov 15, 5:46pm

McKinney police inspected McKinney High School students after school officials detected the smell of marijuana on a school bus. ... police officers responded to the stopped bus and conducted a search of the bus and the students. Alex Green, a McKinney High School student, said everyone on the bus could smell it. "We were just driving down the road and started smelling pot," ... Another student who asked not to be identified said he was sitting in front of the two students who brought the marijuana on the bus. He said they weren't smoking it, just burning it. "The bus driver's assistant smelled it and they were just burning it,"