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(USA Today) RACINE, Wis. - Students at Starbuck Middle School stumbled through the halls just after lunch on Oct. 31, 2007, holding their bellies and moaning. When the vomiting began, teachers knew that it wasn't a Halloween prank.
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina college students are doing their part to raise awareness of hunger and homelessness nationwide as the holiday season approaches.
DURHAM, N.C. (AP) -- Students from across the Southeast are gathering at Duke University to learn about Israel.
Columbia (WLTX) -- According to a survey conducted by the South Carolina Department of Education, students, parents and teachers involved in single-gender programs are loving it.
Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- "If students don't read well, they don't learn well. They don't think well. They don't listen well. They don't speak well," said Richland District One Deputy Superintendent Debra Brathwaite.
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina State University employees must take seven days off without pay to help shrink the public school's $6 million deficit.
Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- After three days of intense interviews, touring and observation The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools has recommended Richland One for full district accreditation.
West Columbia, SC (WLTX) -- It would not have been possible in wars past.
Kershaw County, SC (WLTX) -- According to Kershaw County school officials, health officials from the Department of Health and Environmental Control will offer H1N1 vaccine clinics this week.
Sumter (WLTX) -- A 13 year-old at Bates Middle School in Sumter who has already battled for her life, wants to inspire others who are going through the same thing.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- More stimulus money will be available for schools, but there will be more strings attached.
Batesburg-Leesville, SC (WLTX) -- Statewide, 17,000 teachers are trained in the Darkness to Light program, in order to help them spot the warning signs of sexual abuse.
Winnsboro (WLTX) -- The Fairfield County School District is under review by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools, and that could mean trouble for some college admissions.
Pelion (WLTX) -- The H1N1 vaccine is being offered in some Midlands public schools this week, including schools in Lexington School District 1.
(USA Today) - Struggling to improve schools that have large populations of poor and minority students and under legal pressure to avoid racial busing, a small but growing group of school districts are integrating schools by income.
(USA Today) - Parents and elected officials across the USA are demanding that schools slacken zero-tolerance policies that are meant to reduce violence.
(AP) - A new study says at least 23 heads of private colleges and universities earned a total of more than $1 million each in fiscal 2008.
ORANGEBURG, S.C. (AP) -- South Carolina State's Environmental Policy Institute has received a $1.7 million federal grant to help boost the number of its students studying math, science and engineering.
