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		<title>Australia Prepares To Launch My School 2.0 Website</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 04:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Principals from around the nation will today get access to their school’s data on the new look My School website in preparation for the public launch on Friday. Prime Minister Julia Gillard and School Education Minister Peter Garrett today said the My School 2.0 website will take the new era of greater transparency and accountability [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Illinois Releases P-20 Council Education Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Report Offers Recommendations to Improve Academic Success of Illinois’ Students. Governor Pat Quinn today received the first set of recommendations from the Illinois P-20 Council. The council’s report was released to the Governor and the General Assembly, and it provides a number of suggestions aimed at improving student success in Illinois. &#8220;Ensuring that all of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York To Continue Funding MTA Student Pass Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:13:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor David A. Paterson, Senate Majority Conference Leader John L. Sampson and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, today announced that they have reached an agreement that would restore the State&#8217;s share of funding for free and reduced price Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) student farecards to 2009-10 funding levels. &#8220;Particularly in these difficult economic times, New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia Will Spend $27 Million To Fund 100 Super Science Fellowships</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 02:39:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Attracting and retaining the best and brightest early-career researchers from within Australia and around the world is at the heart of the Rudd Government’s decision to fund 100 Super Science Fellowships. Researchers are critical to Australia’s knowledge economy. Early-career researchers are well placed to take advantage of opportunities as they emerge. They are the entrepreneurs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore To Offer CET Infocomm Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 01:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fourth CET Centre Appointed at NUS to Offer Infocomm Professionals Upgrading Opportunities that Combine Cutting-Edge Research with Expert Practitioner Knowledge The Continuing Education and Training (CET) offerings in the rapidly growing infocomm sector have been enhanced with the appointment of a fourth CET Centre, the Strategic Technology Management Institute (STMI), to provide best-in-class training programmes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intel Receives National Governors Award For Arizona Education Program</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NGA Selects Intel Teach for Public-Private Partnership Award. Governor Jan Brewer today announced Intel Teach, a professional development program linking technology with education in the classroom, has been selected by the National Governors Association (NGA) to receive its Public-Private Partnership Award. Governor Brewer nominated Intel Teach for this national award. “I am thrilled to announce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Florida Announces 2010 Sunshine Week Essay Contest For Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Charlie Crist today announced Florida’s 2010 Sunshine Week “Government in the Sunshine” Web site and invited Florida students in grades 9-12 to participate in the Florida Sunshine Week essay contest. Observed March 14-20, 2010, Sunshine Week celebrates Florida’s laws dedicated to making state and local government more accessible to the public. “This year’s Sunshine [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Canada Helps Berwick Youth Prepare For Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Local youth who face barriers to employment will get job-preparation training and work experience through the Government of Canada’s support for an employment project. Mr. Greg Kerr, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Member of Parliament for West Nova, made the announcement today on behalf of the Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virginia Highlights Best Performing Public Schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 13:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[153 Earn Governor&#8217;s Excellence Awards; Board of Education Honors Additional Schools &#38; School Divisions. Governor Timothy M. Kaine today announced that 153 Virginia public schools have earned the 2010 Governor&#8217;s Award for Educational Excellence. The award is the highest honor under the Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) incentive program created by the Board of Education [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Michigan Eliminates $127 Per Pupil Proration For K-12 Education</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:28:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governor Jennifer M. Granholm today announced that the $127 per pupil proration for K-12 schools will not be necessary given higher than expected carry-forward from the 2009 fiscal year and a decline in 2010 expenditure estimates from the School Aid Fund. The announcement does not eliminate the difficult decisions school districts face in the current [...]]]></description>
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