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![<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><strong>Headlines for Thursday, May 23, 2013</strong></strong></span></strong></strong></span>](http://media.trb.com/media/thumbnails/story/2010-05/53720860-12093801.jpg "<span style="font-size: medium;\"><strong><strong><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><strong><strong>Headlines for Thursday, May 23, 2013</strong></strong></span></strong></strong></span>")
Headlines for Thursday, May 23, 2013
GODSMACK: Sully Gets Own Guitar
Godsmack frontman Sully Erna is the latest musician to get his own signature guitar.
Gibson's Sully Erna Les Paul Studio model is ebony black with a Godsmack sun emblem on the body...Tags: Luella, Entertainment Events, Mick Foley, The Hollies (music group), Al Roker
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Howard school superintendent unveils proposed budget
Howard County schools Superintendent Sydney Cousin unveiled Thursday night a $697 million budget for fiscal year 2013 that is about 2 percent greater than last year's budget and adds 69 new positions to address enrollment growth. Most new positions would...Tags: Layoffs and Downsizing, Teaching and Learning, Howard County, Education, Budgets and Budgeting
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Advocates, experts call for more attention to bullying of special needs-students
Special-education advocates are calling for the state to do more to address the bullying of disabled students, saying that a recent lawsuit against the city school system highlights the long-lasting harm that harassment can do to such children. Experts...Tags: Andres Alonso, Bullying, U.S. Department of Education, Health and Safety at School, Teaching and Learning
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Someone will choose your child's education; why not you?
![This is National School Choice Week, an occasion that always makes me think back to 1976, when as a writer for my high school paper, I interviewed retiring Baltimore County schools Superintendent Joshua Wheeler. I asked Mr. Wheeler why our schools didn't require proficiency testing for graduation. "I know we're a great school system," I said diplomatically, "but even so, some of our kids graduate without being able to read and write."](http://www.baltimoresun.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/67624130-25095751.jpg "This is National School Choice Week, an occasion that always makes me think back to 1976, when as a writer for my high school paper, I interviewed retiring Baltimore County schools Superintendent Joshua Wheeler. I asked Mr. Wheeler why our schools didn't require proficiency testing for graduation. "I know we're a great school system,\" I said diplomatically, \"but even so, some of our kids graduate without being able to read and write.\"")
This is National School Choice Week, an occasion that always makes me think back to 1976, when as a writer for my high school paper, I interviewed retiring Baltimore County schools Superintendent Joshua Wheeler. I asked Mr. Wheeler why our schools didn'...Tags: Arts and Culture, Teaching and Learning, Social Sciences, Colleges and Universities, Teachers
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Majoring in chic at L.A.'s fashion schools
![In a bustling part of downtown L.A., a high-rise is teeming with stylish young women in short skirts and full makeup wheeling small suitcases in and out of elevators on their way to class. They're students at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, where, down the hall from a flat-screen TV broadcasting a runway show, past a plexiglass case of high-fashion Barbies, two of their peers are consulting with Mary Stephens, the school's self-described "big boss."¶"This is a very new-looking shape here," says Stephens, FIDM's director of fashion design. She is talking to Alejandro Ortega, one of 11 students the school has accepted into its advanced fashion design program this year and one of the 8,000 students enrolled on FIDM's four California campuses.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-01/67206528-06135653.jpg "In a bustling part of downtown L.A., a high-rise is teeming with stylish young women in short skirts and full makeup wheeling small suitcases in and out of elevators on their way to class. They're students at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, where, down the hall from a flat-screen TV broadcasting a runway show, past a plexiglass case of high-fashion Barbies, two of their peers are consulting with Mary Stephens, the school's self-described "big boss.\"¶\"This is a very new-looking shape here,\" says Stephens, FIDM's director of fashion design. She is talking to Alejandro Ortega, one of 11 students the school has accepted into its advanced fashion design program this year and one of the 8,000 students enrolled on FIDM's four California campuses.")
Los Angeles TimesIn a bustling part of downtown L.A., a high-rise is teeming with stylish young women in short skirts and full makeup wheeling small suitcases in and out of elevators on their way to class. They're students at the Fashion Institute of Design &...Tags: Entertainment Events, Chanel S.A., Clothing and Textiles Industry, Badgley Mischka, Economy, Business and Finance
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Howard school system closes on new school site in Elkridge
Elkridge will get a new elementary school for the 2013-2014 academic year now that the sellers of a 10.1-acre site on Ducketts Lane have settled a dispute in court. The Howard County school system was supposed to close the deal with Ducketts Ridge LLC in...Tags: Elementary Schools, Schools, Teaching and Learning, Howard County, Education
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State progressing on Race to Top reforms
Except for a delay in a new teacher-evaluation program, Maryland has made a strong start toward achieving the ambitious school reform goals that won the state a coveted $250 million grant, according to federal officials. Maryland, one of 11 states and...Tags: U.S. Department of Education, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Arne Duncan
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Wish list for new director of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
To: Richard Cordray, Director
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Dear Mr. Cordray:
First, congratulations on your appointment to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Unless the banking interests have their way, your appointment is expected...Tags: Laws, Richard Cordray, Consumer Issue, Economy, Business and Finance, Federal Trade Commission
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Baltimore City Community College unified by struggle to get off probation
Carolane Williams does not flinch when confronted with the particulars of her difficult year, which included an employee uprising and unwanted scrutiny from the leader of the state.
"I knew I was going to have to tough it out," says the woman who has led...Tags: Martin O'Malley, Graduation, Baltimore City Community College, Government, Regional Authority
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McDaniel College's new $8 million stadium to bear the name of 1961 alumnus Kenneth Gill
On a sunny and mild Friday afternoon, Feb. 3, the shovels dug into a pile of dirt at McDaniel College.
The groundbreaking for McDaniel's new stadium signified a renewed commitment to the school's athletic program, and the official beginning of a new era...Tags: Field Hockey, Colleges and Universities, Moravian College, Students, College Football
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Social Media Charts Life, Bullying and Death of Girl Who Committed Suicide
PIX11.com / @jamesfordtvAmanda Cummings, 15, a Staten Island high school sophomore who committed suicide, clearly indicated on Facebook weeks beforehand that she was contemplating taking her life, possibly because of bullying at her school . Intimidating postings on Cummings'...Tags: Bullying, Health and Safety at School, Facebook, Suicide, Social Media
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UPDATED: Name of teen victim released in Franklin County crash
News 7 ReporterPolice have identified a boy killed in a Franklin County crash on Monday. UPDATED 5 p.m. Tuesday: Zachary Ian Parsons was 17 and a student at Franklin County High School. The car Zachary Parsons was in came to rest off of Route 122 or Booker T....Tags: Disasters and Accidents, Hospitals and Clinics, Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Transportation Accidents
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