Topic: Jefferson County

Trial set for man accused in Colo. school shooting

AP News - 465 days ago
March 2011 trial set for man accused of shooting, wounding 2 students outside Colo. schoolA judge has set a trial date for a man accused of shooting and wounding two Colorado eighth-graders outside their middle school and is considering a request from ...
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Ala. teacher uses assassination example in class

AP News - 632 days ago
Ala. geometry teacher investigated after using Obama assassination example to teach anglesA Jefferson County geometry teacher was investigated by the Secret Service after he used a hypothetical assassination of President Barack Obama as a way to teach geometric angles. School officials said ...
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JCPS Elementary School Application Period Open

About.com - 728 days ago
JCPS is accepting applications for elementary school-aged students who will be entering a Jefferson County public school in the 2010-2011 school year. Monday, February 1 through Monday, March 1, 2010, is the application period for students who will enter kindergarten in the ...

Short on funds, districts declare fiscal emergency

AP News - 981 days ago
Short on funds, Fla. district declares fiscal emergency; towns big and small take similar stepThese days, Superintendent Bill Brumfield finds himself frequently turning to passages in the brown leather Bible resting on his desk. "If he has to go, he has to ...
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Sweetheart Behind the Wheel

American Profile - 1555 days ago
As the doors swing open, a procession of students climb aboard a bus departing Fultondale (Ala.) Elementary School. For Grigsby, who's logged almost a million miles behind the wheel, driving a school bus is a family tradition. "In 1925, my daddy contracted ...