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… authorized to discuss the strike publicly. An estimated 12 people were killed in the strike late Monday or early Tuesday, including Arabs, Turkeman from central Asia and local Taliban members, according to an…

… middle and high school students. At the Florida Virtual School, the largest Internet public school in the country, more than 50,000 students are taking courses this year. School authorities in Traverse…

… City, Mich., hope to use online courses provided by the Michigan Virtual School next fall to educate several hun- dred students in their homes, alleviating a class- room shortage. The other model is a…

… prairie district running an online including Weldie. Her children, Isabel, Harry school had in recent years given 130 students, and Eleanor -- all in elementary school -- down- and with them $106,000 in per…

…-pupil payments, load assignments and communicate intermit- to neighboring districts that used the students' tently with their certified teachers over the names to pad enrollment counts. The auditor Internet, but…

… are considered public tricts for not opening their own online schools. school students, not home-schoolers, because In Colorado, school districts have lost thou- their online schools are taxpayer…

…-financed and sands of students to virtual schools, and, in 2006, subject to federal testing requirements. a state audit found that one school, run by a rural Despite enthusiastic support from parents, district…

…, was using four licensed teachers to teach the schools have met with opposition from some 1,500 students across the state. The legislature educators, who say elementary students may be responded last…

… online schools. they divert state payments from the online stu- The Wiscosin Virtual Academy has 20 certi- dent's home district. fied, unionized teachers, and 800 students who Other opposition has arisen…

… district receives annual state payments take account of slower students. Isabel Weldie, of $6,050 for each of its 800 students, which it 5, is in kindergarten, "But in math I'm in first uses to pay teachers…

… students are able to bypass the University's language requirement (Obscure policy lets some dodge requirement, 02/12/2008). As someone majoring in German and Arabic I'm biased, but letting students out of…

… 4A - Wednesday, February 13, 2008 4A -W nderrThe Michigan Daily - michigandaily.com 4 my idc t6'a n ail Edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan since 1890. 420 Maynard St…

… the argument that uni- versities consequently kill patients by banning blood drives. When a uni- versity stops allowing blood drives on campus, it doesn't bar students from donating elsewhere. For…

… attack- ing universities, the FDA might finally be spurred into reforming its policy. After that happens, we all could go back to worrying about whether Ohio State.students donate more blood then Michigan…

… students do. Gary Graca is the Daily's editorial page editor. He can be reached at gmgraca@umich.edu. In the first trials of their kind in the post-Sept. 11 era, the six Guantanamo detainees are being tried…

… their opinion heard (those against affirmative action) it is alienating 58 percent of the vot- ers in the slate. These are the same taxpayers who fund part of students' educational this public university…

…- guages." These are cop-outs. No one would let me off the hook for my quantitative reason- ing requirement if I made the same argument about math. If you're a student who attends classes taught in English…

… ause you can't learn age has less merit u can't fulfill the humanities requirement because you're a sociopath. But students are getting away with it. I wish the University would stay true to its…