South Bay student talks science with Obama
2 high school kids from South Bay attend White House Science Fair
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Stanford picks New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker for commencement speaker
Stanford graduate serving second term as mayor of Newark, N.J., is leading an urban transformation to help the city reduce crime and spur security, economic growth and nurturing environment for residents
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New USDA guidelines call for a healthier school lunch program
But some Bay Area school districts, propelled by a growing healthful food movement and concerns about childhood obesity, plan to go beyond the new guidelines.
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Parents protest at scandalized LA grade school
LOS ANGELES -- Many children stayed home Monday while parents demanded more protection at an elementary school where two teachers are suspected of molesting students in class.
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Alum Rock schools get into health care business
A partnership between school district and insurer allows the community to benefit from discount prescriptions
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Entire staff removed at Los Angeles school during abuse probe
LOS ANGELES -- The entire staff at a Los Angeles elementary school is being removed while authorities investigate horrific allegations of sexual abuse by two of the school's teachers, one of whom is accused of blindfolding children, taping their mouths and photographing them in a classroom.
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Parents protest at scandalized LA grade school
District will remove all 150 educators after allegations
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Member of Bellarmine's 'Cheesy Poofs' robotics team to visit Obama on Tuesday
Eric Bakan, the head of programming and controls for Bellarmine College Preparatory’s robotics team, will join a select group of young science and math whizzes meeting with President Barack Obama at the White House Science Fair.
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Brown U. student uncovers lost Malcolm X speech
Rare 50-year-old speech unearthed by Brown student
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Bellarmine's accomplished "Cheesy Poofs robotics team member visits President Obama on Tuesday
Eric Bakan, the head of programming and controls for Bellarmine College Preparatory’s robotics team, will join a select group of young science and math whizzes meeting with the President Obama at the White House Science Fair. The 17-year-old will represent the school’s team, — the Cheesy Poofs — which last spring won both the FIRST Robotics World Championship and the excellence award in the VEX robotics tournament, and this year programmed mini satellites flying in the International Space Station.
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NASA Ames awards San Jose State $73 million to improve air space travel
San Jose State's research center received the largest federal award in university history this week: $73 million to help NASA Ames Research Center improve the safety and efficiency of air space and travel.
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University of San Francisco moves branch to San Jose
The private University of San Francisco has moved its South Bay campus to downtown San Jose and is celebrating its new location with a reception and ribbon cutting on Friday at 3:30 p.
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No ethical breach in board redistricting talks, counsel says
A committee charged with redrawing electoral districts for the Santa Clara County Board of Education has been told that its process has not suffered from any ethical breeches.
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Man with defibrillator wants to know what his heart is saying
Defibrillators implanted in to help faulty hearts transmits health data that patients cannot obtain. One man stepping up a national campaign to get at it.
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California's concussion law puts teams on the spot
Current measure requires coaches to recognize head injuries but doesn't give necessary training
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Los Altos district's offer would divide Bullis Charter into two campuses
On Monday night, the five-member Los Altos School Board made an offer for the upcoming school year that would split the charter between a K-6 campus at its current quarters on Egan Junior High campus, and place the charter’s middle schoolers on the Blach campus near the Cupertino border.
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Document: Los Altos School District's preliminary facilities offer to Bullis Charter School
Document: Los Altos School District's preliminary facilities offer to Bullis Charter School.
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Stanford linear accelerator scientists create the world's first atomic X-ray laser
The Menlo Park researchers aimed SLAC's Linac Coherent Light Source at a capsule of neon gas, setting off an avalanche of X-ray emissions to create the shortest, purest X-ray laser pulses ever achieved.
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Lifetime active brain may ward off Alzheimer's, UC researchers find
A lifetime of daily intellectual stimulation could help prevent the formation of plaques that are the hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, according to a study led by UC Berkeley researchers.
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Furor erupts over redrawing trustee electoral lines
An intense controversy is bubbling over that pending decision — which as early as Wednesday — that could re-map some Santa Clara County School Board members out of their districts or force some to run against others to retain their seats. Charges of conflict of interest have drawn in the spouses of two trustees, as well as the County Office of Education staff and the consultants who have drawn up potential electoral maps.
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