<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - K to 12</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/education/kto12?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><description>K to 12</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Condolences  Pour In for Va.  Crash Victims]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12256-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12256-2005Apr23.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[When they heard about Monday's fatal school bus crash in Arlington, the students  --  from John Adams and James K. 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By then, ushers had run out of white candles tied with pink ribbons and programs printed with a photo of the beaming 9-year-old, and the Northwest Washington church was standing room only.]]></description><author> Karin Brulliard</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sale to Pr. George's Tarnishes LeapFrog]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7559-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7559-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A federal investigation into the purchase of educational software and equipment by Maryland's second-largest school system has taken a toll on the nation's third-largest toy company, LeapFrog Enterprises Inc.]]></description><author> Daniel de Vise</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Crash Devastates 2nd Family]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8048-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8048-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Maria Garcia fastened a photograph of her cousin Harrison Orosco to a tree in front of his house yesterday morning. Then she walked around the yard and picked up two soccer balls and a volleyball and placed them under the picture of the 7-year-old boy who would not be playing with them anymore.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Janey Lists 16 Sites for Lease Plan]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6013-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6013-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  School Superintendent Clifford B. Janey issued a report to the D.C. Board of Education yesterday listing 16 underused schools that are candidates for sharing space with charter schools.]]></description><author> V. Dion Haynes</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Early Start on Reading Spells Success Later, County Says]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5683-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5683-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Kindergarten teacher Laurie Weaver's classroom is a kaleidoscope of colors. Nearly every available inch of wall and blackboard is covered with the alphabet,  words and pictures.]]></description><author> Julie Rasicot</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A D.C. Teacher's Day in the Rose Garden]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6009-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6009-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The sixth-graders were hunched over their desks behind the metal-screened windows of the middle school  --  still digesting the difference between similes and metaphors  --  as the limousine carrying their school's best teacher pulled up to the northwest gate of the White House yesterday.]]></description><author> Manny Fernandez  and V. Dion Haynes</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Montgomery Adjusting To Grading Shift]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6001-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6001-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Walter Johnson is one of two high schools in Montgomery County to begin grading its students using a system that emphasizes academic achievement over participation.]]></description><author> Lori Aratani</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[At Bus Stop, Holding On a Bit Tighter]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2458-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2458-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Before Gisela Zuniga shepherded her 4-year-old daughter, Noelia, onto a bus heading to Arlington County's Hoffman-Boston Elementary School yesterday morning, she planted a kiss on the little girl's cheek and patted her shoulder.]]></description><author> Tara Bahrampour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Common Worst Nightmare Links School Bus Drivers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3039-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3039-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In her 11 years driving a school bus, Linda Farbry woke every morning and said the same prayer: "Please, don't let anything happen to my bus today." She used to think: You pass safety training. You check your mirrors. You drive carefully. But anything can happen. That driver, bloodied and screaming by the side of the road in Arlington on Monday? That could have been you.]]></description><author> Brigid Schulte</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Officials Moving to Sell Some Schools]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3221-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3221-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[D.C. leaders have long avoided raising the sensitive topic of closing or consolidating schools, but the idea has gained momentum recently.]]></description><author> V. Dion Haynes</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Pr. William Budget Passed With 16-Cent Cut in Tax Rate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3165-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A3165-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Prince William County homeowners will see the lowest real estate tax rate in nearly four decades, but they will still pay on average $128 more in property taxes this year under the $765 million budget the Board of County Supervisors approved in a 6 to 2 vote yesterday.]]></description><author> Nikita Stewart</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bus Wreckage Is Searched for Answers]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2459-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2459-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Investigators have ruled out major mechanical problems but came no closer to determining what caused an Arlington County school bus and a trash truck to collide.]]></description><author> Leef Smith and David Cho</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bus Crash Renews Debate on Seat Belts]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63970-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63970-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The fatal school bus crash Monday in Arlington stoked a debate that has simmered across the nation for decades: Why don't school buses have seat belts?]]></description><author> Nick Anderson  and David Cho</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Kids Get Role in 'Selecting' Pope]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63922-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63922-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[On the day when cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church began the process of selecting a new pope, students at Saint Catherine Laboure School took the "oath of secrecy" and locked themselves away in a social studies classroom in a mock papal conclave.]]></description><author> Hamil R. Harris</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In One Cafeteria, a Familiar Face Amid Decades of Change]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59624-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59624-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Beatrice Mowdy, 75, remembers the days when cafeteria lunch ladies had to work <em>really </em>hard for their keep. Back in the day, she and her fellow workers had to bake all the breads, make all the sauces from scratch, roast the turkeys and slice them up for serving.]]></description><author> Ian Shapira</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Treating Family Wounds]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59314-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59314-2005Apr16.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Nonprofit group Our Military Kids in McLean  is offering to help pay for athletics, tutoring and dance lessons for children of deployed troops.]]></description><author> Timothy Dwyer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Another Era, Teen Mom Was Cautionary Tale]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55143-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55143-2005Apr14.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Every high school, I bet, has at least one Cheryl Saunders. A girl who isn't just one of the prettiest around, but one who has the nerve to be smart, popular and even nice.]]></description><author> Donna Britt</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[High Expectations Keep Her Students Engaged]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49701-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A49701-2005Apr13.html?nav=rss_education/kto12</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Apr 2005 8:25:16 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Jan Spicknall finished her one-on-one chats with  students, took off  her red baseball cap with the "Do Not Disturb" sign clipped  on the front and announced to the whole class that the school day had come to an end.]]></description><author> Daniel de Vise</author></item></channel></rss>