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Jeremiah Finton Lasater, 14, was found in a boys' restroom at Vasquez High School with a gunshot wound to the head. Tall, awkward and dealing with a learning disability, 14-year-old Jeremiah Lasater was a target of frequent taunts by schoolyard bullies at Vasquez High School in Acton, students said Tuesday.
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The campus' executive director says five students were involved. The scores could be invalidated. The head of Granada Hills Charter High School acknowledged to parents Wednesday that students had stolen or viewed SAT exams before taking the college entrance test earlier this month.
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Mary Najera's son was "failing horribly" at his Los Angeles junior high school. The principal told her he had to move on "regardless of whether he was prepared to compete" in high school, she said. "I was a desperate mom,"...
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Two students are in custody after a small explosive device was found in the possession of one of them at Seminole High School.
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Chicago may join New York and Milwaukee as a city with a gay-friendly school.
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More than 4,200, some not even old enough to vote, work at L.A. County polling places through a program that gives them a first-hand look at the election process. Amy Cohen was a bit nervous after the doors opened Tuesday at the Studio City church where she was volunteering for the first time as a poll worker. She is 18, a first-time voter, and the long line of people waiting to exercise their right to vote included her mother and brother. Plus, her father was working at the poll too.
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Six Wells Community Academy High School students were hurt during a fight in the lunchroom in the Near Northwest Side high school Thursday morning, officials said, and another fight broke out outside the school once the school day ended.
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RCMP arrested a 15-year-old girl on Tuesday in an incident involving two female high school students in Fall River, N.S.
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A 14-year-old Flint-area high school freshman and others have been suspended after a topless photo of the girl circulated through the school.
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A medical examiner's office in Michigan has canceled public school tours after a high school group watched the autopsy of a 14-year-old girl from their district.
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“Students at Montgomery High School in southern Maryland have apparently been reprinting...
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Garfield Elementary pupils note broken sidewalks, speeding motorists and other hazards in hopes that Santa Ana will correct them. On the first day of class, Chris Marx asks his fifth-grade students how they get to school and what they encounter along the way.
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In 2004, Philip Delves Broughton was working as a journalist for the Daily Telegraph in Paris. His job made him the envy of many, but after becoming increasingly uncertain about his future in the industry, and having harboured a long standing interest in the financial world, he took the bold decision to enrol on the famous Harvard Business School MBA programme.
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In a recent book about his experiences studying for an MBA at Harvard, journalist Philip Delves Broughton describes his surprise at the number of expensive cars in the student car park. He found out later that this was no mere extravagance. By buying the cars, the students had emptied their bank accounts enough to qualify for financial aid.
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Studies show increased dropout risk because of stigma, fear of violence Pointing to studies showing that gay high school students are at greater risk of dropping out because of stigma and fear of violence, Chicago Public Schools leaders said Wednesday that they will recommend opening a campus aimed at these students.
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High School Musical director Kenny Ortega says Zac Efron is close to starring in a new version of classic 80s film Footloose.
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A secondary school in Inverness is forced to close for the day after fire damages its assembly hall.
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year, London Premiere Location: Empire Cinema Leicester Square, London, UK Date: 7th October, 2008 Celebrities: Ashley Tisdale, Vanessa Anne Hudgens, Zac Efron, Corbin Bleu, Jemma McKenzie-Brown, Zac Efron Photographer: Solarpix / PR Photos
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Area leaders in all major stat categories entering Week 7.
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Trinity High School in Euless Texas has a remarkably diverse make up. Students speak 53 languages, but the success of its football team owes a lot to one group of islanders. Sixteen members of the squad are of Tongan descent.
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Chicago school officials plan to recommend opening a gay-friendly campus, citing studies that homosexual highschool students have greater dropout rates than heterosexual teens.
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New guidelines put in place by the New Brunswick Interscholastic Athletics Association is making it impossible to hold proper sport tournaments, students and coaches say.
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This week, staff writer Valerie Strauss concludes The Post's review of math education with a look at college-level work in high schools and what some graduates might be lacking.
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Craigie High School suffers fire, smoke and water damage after a blaze breaks out in the science block.
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"Summer Heights High," an Australian comedy created by and starring Chris Lilley, ventures close to reality in testing boundary-pushing topics at a high school.
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If U.S. school students were allowed to vote, they would elect Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama, according to a poll by U.S. publisher Scholastic released on Tuesday. Almost a quarter of a million students voted online and by mailing paper ballots between August and Oct. 10 with 57 percent choosing Obama over his Republican rival John McCain, who [...]
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Varsity cheerleaders face misdemeanor hazing charges in a criminal case.
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DETROIT (AP) -- A gunman stepped out of a sport utility vehicle and shot four teenagers on a primary-school lawn near their Detroit high school shortly after class let out Thursday, killing one of them, police said....
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A Jacksonville high school student has been stabbed by another student with a steak knife. Jacksonville police and school officials say the injured student was taken to the Shands Jacksonville hospital about 10:30 a.m. with non life-threatening injuries.
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Since Mount Vernon school officials scrapped the district’s $1.1 million athletics program because of budget cuts, money has flowed nevertheless.
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A male teenager was stabbed multiple times last night after a fight broke out at Friendly High School in Fort Washington, authorities said.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co's hotly anticipated "High School Musical 3: Senior Year" arrives in movie theaters around the world next week, with bumper advance ticket sales and plans to keep the $1 billion-plus franchise hot with a fourth film.
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Does the world need yet another peppy gay self-esteem indie like “Tru Loved”? Probably not, though the writer and director Stewart Wade pulls this one off with heart.
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The football player for Montclair High School who sustained a brain hemorrhage during a game three days ago died Wednesday.
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LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - The cultural tween phenomenon of "High School Musical" hoofed into Los Angeles on Thursday night with the premiere of the first feature film edition of Disney's television-based franchise.
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Fans are excited over the highly anticipated sequel to "High School Musical," which had its premiere in Los Angeles, reports Hattie Kauffman. HSM3 opens nationwide next week.
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As dress codes and even mandatory school uniform policies become more commonplace, students and parents are ending up in courtrooms and jailhouses in their determination to fight back.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Breezy, bouncy and bursting with enthusiasm, "High School Musical" makes its big-screen debut around the world this week in what could be the year's biggest family movie.
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