International Business News - School http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Six weeks after someone with HIV said dozens of students at a St. Louis high school might have been exposed to the virus, it remains unclear whether an outbreak has occurred. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081204/too-early-to-know-if-mo-school-had-hiv-outbreak.htm Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:08:55 EST Authorities say a high school freshman in New York City has been struck and killed by a school bus. New York City Department of Education spokeswoman Margie Feinberg says the 14-year-old girl was struck while walking to Francis Lewis High School in the Queens section of New York City. She was pronounced dead at a hospital. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081204/nyc-high-school-freshman-hit-killed-by-school-bus.htm Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:44:10 EST Eight students are being treated for injuries in Columbia, South Carolina after a crash between a school bus and another vehicle. Emergency Medical Services workers said the injured students were taken to a hospital shortly after the accident Wednesday morning. There was no immediate word whether anyone in the other vehicle was hurt. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/8-students-injured-in-school-bus-accident-in-sc.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:45:40 EST The iPod is going to medical school. Officials said Tuesday that an Apple Inc. portable media player will become standard equipment for Ohio State University med students. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/ohio-med-school-prescribes-ipods-for-students.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:05:44 EST A surprising statistic awaited Bannon Creek Elementary School principal Linda Wilkinson when she returned to school this fall: Around 425 of the school's 600 students now qualify for free and reduced-price school meals, up about 8 percent since school let out for the summer. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081203/calif-3-1-million-kids-getting-school-lunch-deal.htm Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:49:51 EST A homemade bomb was found Tuesday at a gas station a block away from a school, and authorities arresting a suspect found a second bomb on the man's body, police said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/police-2-homemade-bombs-dismantled-in-ohio-town.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:04:04 EST Eleven girls died of carbon monoxide poisoning at a school in northern China's Shaanxi province, an education official said Tuesday evening. A news report said the girls had lit a fire to keep warm. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081202/report-11-girls-die-of-poisoning-at-china-school.htm Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:23:35 EST Seven-year-old Dan Taglia heard the fire alarm bell from his classroom on Dec. 1, 1958, but hoped it was a signal that students were getting ice cream. It was too late in the day for a fire drill, and anyway the nuns wouldn't send the children out coatless on such a cold day. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/185919-school-fire-anniversary.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081129/50-years-after-school-inferno-scars-remain.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081129/50-years-after-school-inferno-scars-remain.htm Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:36:35 EST Boston College Law School has received a $3.1 million gift from Liberty Mutual Group that will be used to establish a professorship in property and casualty insurance law. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081128/bc-law-gets-3-1m-gift-from-liberty-mutual.htm Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:20:04 EST A man was accused of breaking into a Dayton preschool and making off with the teachers' frozen lunch entrees. Police said an officer who responded to a burglar alarm at a Miami Valley Child Development location last Saturday noticed a 51-year-old man walking away from the building. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081125/man-accused-of-stealing-teachers-frozen-lunches.htm Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:15:40 EST A Haitian teen has shot and killed a classmate in a rare outbreak of school violence in the troubled country. Police spokesman Garry Desrosier says the 16-year-old opened fire on the 13-year-old north of the capital in the town of Cabaret. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081124/haitian-teen-fatally-shoots-classmate.htm Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:13:57 EST Three school buses collided in a chain-reaction crash Monday in southwestern Arkansas, sending dozens of youngsters to a hospital but few with serious injuries, authorities said. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081124/at-least-6-hurt-as-3-school-buses-crash-in-ark.htm Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:52:02 EST Demonstrators renewed their call Sunday to shutter a school on a Georgia Army base for Latin American military and government officials and say they're optimistic the new president or a more sympathetic Congress will act within the next year. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/180896-military-school-protest.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081123/protesters-call-for-closing-of-military-school.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081123/protesters-call-for-closing-of-military-school.htm Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:18:41 EST At the behest of its students, an elementary school near New York City has been renamed after President-elect Barack Obama. The Hempstead Union Free School District board voted unanimously Thursday night to rename Ludlum Elementary School as Barack Obama Elementary School. The change went into effect immediately, school officials said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/new-york-elementary-school-is-renamed-for-obama.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:38:35 EST It was only a matter of time. A New York school has been renamed in honor of President-elect Barack Obama. The former Ludlum Elementary School, in Long Island's Hempstead Union Free School District, was renamed at a school board meeting Thursday--effective immediately. The new name is the Barack Obama Elementary School. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081121/ny-elementary-school-is-renamed-for-obama.htm Fri, 21 Nov 2008 12:57:25 EST Emergency officials say a 19-year-old Haitian schoolgirl died of a heart attack after students panicked that their school was collapsing. Civil protection official Jean Edme says a dozen stampeding students were injured in Port-au-Prince's Tabarre district on Wednesday when vibrations from wind or a passing truck frightened them into thinking their school would fall. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/student-dies-of-heart-attack-in-haiti-school-panic.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:57:33 EST School Specialty Inc., which makes pre-kindergarten learning products, on Thursday cut its full-year financial targets amid slowing state spending on education. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/school-specialty-reduces-full-year-outlook.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:46:31 EST School Specialty Inc., which makes pre-kindergarten learning products, said Thursday its fiscal 2009 second-quarter earnings fell 12 percent as state spending on education products began to slow amid the declining economy. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081120/school-specialty-2q-profit-falls-12-percent.htm Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:01:35 EST Backers of a proposed high school touted as a haven for gay and bullied youth have pulled their proposal, saying they wanted to spend another year to finalize their plans. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081119/vote-on-anti-bullying-chicago-high-school-delayed.htm Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:18:15 EST Planners of Pride Campus never shied away from touting their proposed high school as a haven for gay youth seeking refuge from sometimes hostile traditional classrooms. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081118/chicago-board-to-vote-on-anti-bullying-high-school.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 18:07:04 EST