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Should Public Schools End Spanking?

By UCN on May 8, 2012 2:06 PM

In 31 states and more than 100 foreign countries, spanking in schools has gone the way of cassette tapes, pay phones and Kodachrome. But, as USA TODAY reported recently, 19 states across the USA, mainly in the South, still permit corporal punishment -- typically swats on the backside of a student with a wooden paddle.

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Conservatives Seek to Reverse California's 'Gay History' Law

By UCN on April 20, 2012 9:10 PM

A landmark California law that legalized the teaching of gay history in California's public school might still be reversed at the ballot, months after an earlier signature drive aimed at overturning it fell short.

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Arizona Public High Schools Allowed to Teach the Bible

By UCN on April 19, 2012 5:14 AM

The Bible may soon be studied in public high schools in Arizona.

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Ban on Gideon Bibles in Ontario Public Schools Is Final

By UCN on April 18, 2012 6:40 AM

Public school trustees defied vitriol, threats and impassioned pleas by finalizing a ban Tuesday on the free handouts of Gideon Bibles.

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Communities, Students Hurt as Schools Forced to Close

By UCN on April 17, 2012 5:04 AM

Allison Miller, 15, helps catalog some of the memorabilia items from Lovington High School. (Kristen Schmid Schurter, for USA TODAY)

Each day, students gather in the Lovington High School science lab to catalog and repair trophies won by their classmates and some of their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents.

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Creationism 'Monkey Bill' Becomes Law In Tennessee

By UCN on April 11, 2012 8:05 AM

The controversial legislation became law Tuesday without Bill Haslam's signature. (AP Photo)

Tennessee will now allow the discussion of creationism theory in its classrooms.

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Ontario Public School Board Receives Hate Mail After Banning Gideon Bibles

By UCN on April 11, 2012 7:27 AM

The Bluewater school board has decided to ban the distribution of Gideon Bibles to Grade 5 students.

An Ontario public school board's decision to ban distribution of Gideon Bibles to its young students has unleashed a torrent of threatening calls and hateful emails directed at trustees.

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New York's Department of Education Abandons Plan to Ban 'Loaded Words' from Tests

By UCN on April 5, 2012 6:11 AM

One week after New York's Department of Education drew controversy with a request to ban 50 words and references from the city's standardized tests - including "dinosaur," "birthday" and "religion" - the department announced Tuesday that it is abandoning the plan.

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Divorce. Religion. Christmas. NYC Schools Seek to Ban 'Loaded Words' from Tests

By UCN on March 29, 2012 6:08 AM

Divorce. Dinosaurs. Birthdays. Religion. Halloween. Christmas. Television. These are a few of the 50-plus words and references the New York City Department of Education is hoping to ban from the city's standardized tests.

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Florida School Prayer Bill One Step Closer to Becoming Law

By UCN on February 23, 2012 2:17 PM

Rep. Charles Van Zant is handling the "inspirational messages" bill in the House (FL House)

A bill allowing "inspirational messages" in public schools appeared to be on the cusp of becoming law Wednesday, as the last House committee to consider the bill approved the measure.

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