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c.2013 New York Times News Service THE CIA’S PART IN BENGHAZI Throughout months of Republican “investigation” into the tragedy in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11 last year, the CIA has escaped the scrutiny and partisan bashing aimed at the State Department and the White House. But we now know that ...

  • Updated: 8:52 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Federal judge dismisses charter school suit

A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against the Metro Nashville Board of Education by a charter school that was ordered to close because of poor student performance. The Metro School Board voted in November to shut down Smithson Craighead Middle School because the charter school ranked among the ...

  • Updated: 4:26 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

SC Senate defeats private school choice proposal

South Carolina senators have defeated an attempt to help parents pay for private school tuition or educate them at home through the state budget. The 23-18 vote Wednesday rejecting the budget amendment followed nearly three hours of discussion. Senators are in their second week of debating their 2013-14 budget plan. ...

  • Updated: 3:59 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Zach Sobiech, left, walks with his girlfriend, Amy Adamle, between classes at Stillwater High School in Stillwater, Minn., on Dec. 3, 2012. "She's strong enough to share the load with me, said Sobiech. Sobiech, the Lakeland, Minn. teenager whose song "Clouds" became an Internet sensation, died early Monday, May 20, 2013 at his home, surrounded by family and his girlfriend, according to a CaringBridge post by Zach's mother. He was 18. Sobiech, who had a rare form of bone cancer, began writing songs of farewell to family and friends last fall. His first song, "Clouds," went viral and has received almost 3 million hits on YouTube. (AP Photo/St. Paul Pioneer Press, Ben Garvin)

Minn. teen whose farewell song became web hit dies

When high school student Zach Sobiech learned he didn't have much longer to live, his mother suggested he write letters to tell his loved ones goodbye. Instead, the Minnesota teenager turned to writing music — and his farewell song, "Clouds," became a YouTube sensation that has attracted more than 4 ...

  • Updated: 7:50 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Illinois Senate approves sex education bill

Illinois public schools that teach sex education will have to include information about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases instead of a curriculum focused solely on abstinence, according to a plan that cleared the state Senate on Wednesday. The bill, which senators approved 37-21, was headed to Gov. Pat Quinn's desk. ...

  • Updated: 3:51 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Security intervenes as Shannon Bennett, an activists with Kenwood Oakland Community Organization attempts to speak after commandeering the podium microphone at a packed meeting of the Chicago Board of Education, Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Chicago. The board is expected to take a final vote Wednesday on whether to close 53 schools, an ambitious proposal that sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define — for better or worse — Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term in office. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)

Chicago Board of Ed votes to close 50 schools

The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs, an ambitious plan that has sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define — for better or worse — Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term in office. City officials say the closings are necessary because of falling school enrollment ...

  • Updated: 3:20 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Test results up overall; voucher schools flat

A state Education Department analysis of the latest standardized test results for public school students in grades three through eight shows the state continues to make incremental overall improvement with a long way to go. The number of students performing at grade level in math, science, English and social studies ...

  • Updated: 3:07 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

US judge orders child returned to Sweden

A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a 3-year-old girl at the center of an international custody dispute between her divorced parents to be returned to Sweden after concluding the child is being wrongfully kept in Iowa by her mother. In a ruling filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Des ...

  • Updated: 3:06 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

AP top news in Iowa at 3:58 p.m. CDT

State House approves education policy deal DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The state House has unanimously approved an education policy deal that would provide additional school funding. Lawmakers backed the plan Wednesday in a 95-0 vote. Republican Rep. Ron Jorgensen, of Sioux City, says the compromise plan would provide more ...

  • Updated: 3:01 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Del. budget panel adds $2M for charter schools

Members of the legislature's budget writing committee have approved $2 million in new spending for Delaware charter schools. Wednesday's vote by the Joint Finance Committee is aimed at helping high-performing charter schools with startup costs or funds to expand of programs. While committee members authorized the funding, the proposed charter ...

  • Updated: 2:55 p.m. Wednesday, May 22, 2013
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