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Tuesday, September 25, 2012  A North Texas school district has changed its corporal punishment policy to let male educators paddle female students.

Friday, February 17, 2012  A local educator wins honor of "Teacher of the Year".

Tuesday, November 08, 2011  Annette Carlisle tosses her hat in the ring for the State Board of Education.

Friday, August 05, 2011  New Missouri law limits teacher-student contact online; some educators protest restrictions

Tuesday, June 07, 2011  A new state law will take a big bite out of the paychecks of educators who retired and then returned to work for New Mexico schools and colleges while continuing to receive their pensions.

Tuesday, October 19, 2010  A survey that measures teacher quality in Texas has found that students in underachieving poor and minority districts are more likely to have under-qualified teachers than those in better-performing, wealthier white districts.

Saturday, October 02, 2010 

Monday, August 16, 2010  Gov. Bill Richardson is using $2 million in federal economic stimulus money to help protect New Mexico teachers and school employees from health insurance premium increases.

Thursday, February 25, 2010  The educators who make up the Panhandle's Reion 16 are hoping this area will see more help for your kids and their public schools.

Tuesday, February 09, 2010  An abstinence-only study has attracted praise from some Texas educators.

Wednesday, September 23, 2009  The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation is giving $10 million to help Texas create a $60 million data system to track student performance.

Tuesday, March 24, 2009  That's the fallout from a handful of measures approved by the Legislature that will affect state and local government workers as well as educational employees ranging from teachers to college faculty.