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Students from Fort Lauderdale's Western High School on their way to prom help rescue a family from an overturn vehicle. (Courtesy NBC Miami)

Students headed to prom help rescue crash victims

NBC Miami
NBC Miami - A group of 20 students headed to prom – along with their limousine driver – helped rescue five adults and two children, who were trapped in a van after they crashed on Interstate 595 Saturday.
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San Diego area high school students have been suspended and banned from prom or commencement because of a twerking video. (Courtesy NBC San Diego)

Students suspended for twerking video

Rory DeVine and R. Stickney, NBC San Diego
NBC San Diego - Dozens of San Diego area high school students have been suspended and banned from prom or commencement because of a twerking video according to one parent.
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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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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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Feds' loan changes hamper black college enrollment

Brock Vergakis, Associated Press
ATLANTA (AP) - Thousands of students couldn't afford to go to college this school year because the U.S. Department of Education made changes to a popular loan program...
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Barclays Center pays tribute to segregated black basketball stars

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - The Barclays Center is linking Brooklyn's African-American basketball history and its present-day team, the Brooklyn Nets, with the new installation of historic photographs of the Black Fives, early-20th century African-American basketball teams, throughout the arena's main concourse...
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A sign for Chalk Hill School is seen in Monroe, Conn., Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2013. School resumes Wednesday for students in Newtown, Conn., except for the Sandy Hook Elementary School students, who will begin classes on Thursday at Chalk Hill School. The school was overhauled specially for them in the neighboring town of Monroe, Conn. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)

Sandy Hook kids face 1st classes since shooting

Dave Collins, Associated Press
MONROE, Conn. (AP) - Classes are resuming for Sandy Hook Elementary School students for the first time since last month's shooting that killed 20 children and six educators...
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Ohio band The National recieves 'hate mail' for supporting Obama

Carrie Healey
theGRIO REPORT - Ohio band The National claims they have received negative feedback since they openly supported President Barack Obama's re-election campaign...
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UT alumnus Chas Moore speaks to the crowd. "This is not 1960," said Moore. "We are not going to be afraid to walk anywhere. We are not going back in time." (Matt Portillo, The Horn)

Students pelted with bleach balloons

Ugonna Okpalaoka
theGRIO REPORT - Dozens of University of Texas at Austin students, alumni and faculty gathered around a campus statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. Tuesday to protest recent reports of racist attacks on the campus...
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Students get financial training, job skills at new school credit union

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MIAMI - Booker T. Washington High School students not only go to class, they also run the new Dade County Federal Credit Union. The Florida high school students now have the opportunity to obtain hands-on financial and job-readiness skills.
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