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Identical twins Kirstie and Kristie Bronner (Photo courtesy of Bronner family)

Twins named Spelman valedictorians

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In this March 28, 2013 photo, Ginnette Powell, left, and her friend Jonnelle Seigler, both of Boston, fist bump during a chance meeting in front of the UP Academy Charter School in Boston's South Boston neighborhood. Powell was bussed to the predominantly white neighborhood almost 40 years ago to attend school at what was Patrick Gavin Middle School. She said will never forget riding the school bus as protesters hurled bricks at it. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Amid Boston school changes, giving voice to busing's past

Bridget Murphy, Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) - The uproar started in 1974, when a federal judge imposed busing after a lawsuit claimed black students were getting lower-quality education than children who attended mostly white schools.
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Beverly Hall, Atlanta superintendent of public schools, smiles after she was named the 2009 Superintendent of the Year at the American Association of School Administrators' National Conference on Education in San Francisco, Friday, Feb. 20, 2009. Hall has led the 102-school Atlanta, Georgia system serving 50,000 for a decade. Hall will get a $10,000 college scholarship to give to a student at her high school alma mater in Jamaica. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

Atlanta school cheating robs innocent children

Goldie Taylor
OPINION - The Atlanta cheating scandal is about real life, a real 'wire' -- real children and all too real consequences...
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GOP senator defends good grades for welfare bill

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - A Tennessee bill that would reduce welfare benefits to low-income families if their child performs poorly in school has gotten people talking...
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Atlanta cheating scandal deepens as educators turn themselves in

Kunbi Tinuoye
theGRIO REPORT - The 35 defendants, including Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Dr. Beverly Hall, have a mandatory deadline to surrender at the Fulton County Jail by Tuesday...
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Ex-superintendent indicted in Atlanta school cheating scandal

Kat Brumback, Associated Press
NBC News - A grand jury indicted a former superintendent and more than 30 other educators Friday in one of the nation's largest cheating scandals that rocked Atlanta's public schools.
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New bill links welfare benefits with child's school performance

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - A piece of Tennessee legislation will penalize low-income families by reducing their welfare benefits if their child performs poorly in school if it is advanced...
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100 percent of Urban Prep seniors college-bound

Sharon Wright and BJ Lutz, NBC Chicago
NBC Chicago - Urban Prep Academy is continuing its record of success...
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Bill Clinton to deliver Howard commencement speech

Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Howard University says former President Bill Clinton will deliver the school's commencement address in May...
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Students march through the Loop protesting the city's plan to close more than 50 elementary schools on March 25, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Last week the city announced the plan claiming it was necessary to rein in a looming $1 billion budget deficit. The closings would shift about 30,000 students to new schools and leave more than 1,000 teachers with uncertain futures. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

Chicago Teachers Union, supporters gear up for rally on school closings

Renita D. Young
theGRIO REPORT - As students of the third-largest school district in the nation enter their second day of spring break, many of them are spending their vacation protesting the proposed closing of 54 Chicago public schools...
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Bill Cosby

Cosby wants 'movement' for schools

Joy-Ann Reid
theGRIO REPORT - At 75, the comedian, philanthropist, actor and everyone's favorite dad as co-creator and star of 'The Cosby Show,' is still feisty, opinionated, and determined. Only now, his energy is often devoted to touting causes that have nothing to do with show business...
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