Education

Education to help reduce Manukau Bar fatalities

9 Feb 2012

Coastguard is hoping to reduce the number of fatalities and boat capsizes on the Manukau Bar this summer by hosting an educational Manukau Bar Awareness Day on Sunday, February 26.

Education waiver gives Minnesota flexibility

9 Feb 2012

MINNEAPOLIS - Minnesota education officials say the waiver from the strict requirements of the No Child Left Behind education law will give them the flexibility and resources necessary to help struggling students. President Barack Obama announced the waiver on Thursday.

Some states stay with education law, cite politics

9 Feb 2012

Some of the nation's largest states are questioning whether the Obama administration's offer to let them escape certain mandates of the No Child Left Behind law is a helping hand to improve education or a means to impose more federal control.