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Berkeley High administrators this week shared details of a plan to better educate black and Latino kids — much of it for the first time publicly — then got slammed by school board members for not doing so earlier. Board members also said that the part of the plan that would cut four or five science teacher positions from advanced-placement or college-preparatory classes may happen regardless because of budget reductions. The proposed science cuts have had parents in a frenzy because high school administrators want to use the approximately $350,000 in savings for "equity grants" to reduce class sizes in...

In an attempt to completely comply with the separation of church and state, some school districts are implementing Christmas Avoidance School Bus Routes--because "children, riding the school bus, are having Christmas crammed down their throats." Especially egregious are those houses of worship with Christmas message signs and Nativity Scenes out front. School officials believe that a public school bus on a public road must not be used as a religious tool! So, either the windows on the bus must be blackened (the bus would be fitted with a periscope for the driver, of course!); or, more realistically, bus routes must...