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   Lotto is a minor source of funding
Q. I don't understand why our schools are always in so much financial trouble. What happened to the state lottery money? -- San Pablo resident A Don't fret, the lottery money is not lost, nor has it been stolen or otherwise misplaced. It's there, in your local school district's budget. Right where it should be.



K-12  

   'Tigerman' fights violence with love
Donning a tiger-skin cape, face paint, and tiger-colored dreadlocks of rope, Mark Anthony Ciarlante sings, dances and dazzles young children in schools as he delivers a message of peace, love and safety: Say no to guns. Get an adult when danger lurks. Respect everyone.

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ONLINE LEARNING  

   E-school plan proposes kids, teachers meet
Teachers at Ohio's five online charter schools would have to meet with students in person every eight weeks, under proposed changes to a bill overhauling the state's charter school law.



BACK TO SCHOOL  
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Online programs growing swiftly.
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A San Jose Mercury News staff writer who took a leave of absence to teach in seventh grade tells his story.
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HIGHER EDUCATION  

Mogul's dream for university: 'To get people to heaven'
Men with money and hopes of making more have always brought their dreams to Florida. Here, where land and fools long have been abundant, the dreamers often maneuver by stealth, befriending well-placed locals, surveying plat maps, securing their site. Then, in grand fashion, they announce to the public a fantastic future for some remote and mucky tract.
  


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