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Parents Rally to Keep Principal Martinez at Carpenter
Patch.com
The parent volunteers?known for their creative responses to issues at the Los Angeles Unified School District affiliated-charter school?scrambled to figure out a way of matching the difference, and then asked LAUSD if they could keep him.

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Parent gets back at school official with porn site
Arizona Republic
24, 2012 09:53 PM A disgruntled Higley parent who wanted to get back at his son's assistant principal has been convicted of two felonies after starting a fake profile on a pornographic website under the assistant principal's name.
KCTV 5Angry parent creates fake porno site in asst. principal's nameKCTV Kansas City
Angry parent creates fake porno site in asst. principal's nameKPHO Phoenix

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Some parents, teachers concerned over cost of teachers' retreat
WIS
District officials say it's for team-building, but some parents and teachers are concerned that the funds for the trip should be used in the classrooms. The two-night trip to Kingston Plantation costs nearly $12000. A couple of parents and teachers who ...

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Romney For Parent Choice on School Aid
Wall Street Journal
Parents could use the money to send their children to any in-state public school. States would have the option to include private schools, as well. "I'm going to expand parental choice in an unprecedented way," Mr. Romney said at a Latino Coalition ...
Romney ventures into Democratic turf in PhiladelphiaThe Seattle Times
Romney ventures onto Democratic turf, gets earful in PhiladelphiaAllentown Morning Call
Romney encounters pushback on education ideas at urban charter schoolCBS News
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National Network Parent Match? Helping Families Adopt Faster
Sacramento Bee
By Parent Match MENDHAM, NJ, May 24, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Jamie and Brad of Kentucky are the proud parents of a new baby, but the journey they took to get there would not have been possible even just a year ago. Adopting typically takes years ...

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Are Canadian parents good financial role models? 25% grade themselves a 'C'
MarketWatch (press release)
Parents usually know best, but when it comes to setting a good financial example for their kids, a quarter of Canadian parents give themselves a 'C'. A new survey from ING DIRECT revealed that while 92% of Canadian parents believe they should be ...

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Dallas Voice

Parent Pound stone
Dallas Voice
Like most parents, Paula Poundstone has a million stories about her kids. Unlike most parents, Poundstone has a comic's timing that makes even the most familiar tale sound newly hilarious. Except that she insists there's no embellishing ? that's just ...



Parent Places Ad Accusing Coaches of Bullying
Crave Online
Such is the case of the parent of a player on the Stephen Decatur (Berlin, Md.) baseball team who took to their local newspaper to call out their child's coaches as being bullies. This parent, James "Tony" DiBuo, of Bishopville, took out a full-page ad ...

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Christian Science Monitor

Kinship care beats foster care for raising kids ? support needed
Christian Science Monitor
By The Associated Press / May 24, 2012 Extended-family caregivers, grandparents and other relatives who raise children whose parents are unable to care for them, are more likely to be poor, elderly, less educated and unemployed, according to the report ...
Report: More support needed for kinship caregiversThe Associated Press
Report: More Kentucky Kids Raised By Relatives Than ParentsWTVQ

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Study Shows Parents Enable Adult Children
PR.com (press release)
Many parents are enabling their adult children and destroying their chances for success. A recent study shows that over 60% of today's young adults receive financial help from their parents. Knoxville, TN, May 25, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Expert explains how ...