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  • New state attendance law fights truancy

    Tuesday, February 01, 2011 By: Brittany Mullan

    Beware seniors: Ditching school may seem like fun during the last semester of your high school career, but school officials are as determined as ever to put a stop to truancy at Tracy High.

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  • Top 10 Romantic Movies of All Time

    Thursday, February 10, 2011 By: Ellie Batchiyska, Joey Tyler and Eduardo Salas

    With Valentine’s Day coming up, everybody is getting in the amorous mood. Many boyfriends nationwide will be forced to watch romantic movies with their teary-eyed girlfriends. To make it easier to cho

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  • Worst School Reads

    Monday, January 31, 2011 By: Ashleigh Calhoun

    Reading novels for school is a requirement that cannot be escaped without damage done to their grade, but there is nothing that requires students to love the novels they read.

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  • New vertical driver's license for those under 21

    Tuesday, February 01, 2011 By: Sarah Sabliny

    For many teenagers, getting a driver’s license is a symbol of adulthood and the freedom that comes with it.

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  • Plan hopes to teach financial literacy

    Friday, February 04, 2011 By: Peiru Lu

    Have you thought about how to pay for your college education, how to make a down payment on a house or a car? Do you want to live a reasonable life and not struggle financially? Do you want enough mo

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  • The Fighter is a knockout

    Tuesday, February 01, 2011 By: Anastasia Efaw and Jordan Warner

    Generally, boxing movies follow the clichéd “rise of the underdog” plot line, complete with an adrenaline-pumping workout montage of the boxer in question running in a gray pair of out-of-date sweats,

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  • Gruesome Videos and Pressuring Campaigns: Seriously, PETA?

    Tuesday, February 01, 2011 By: Kalli Wolf

    According to numerous “Anti-PETA” sites and activists, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals does more harm to animals than good. Is this true? Who knows. What is true, however, is the negative

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  • Football coach's contract not renewed for new season

    Tuesday, February 01, 2011 By: Taylor Jones

    For seven years, Ken Rose was the varsity football coach.  On Monday, Dec. 13, 2010, the Board of Education decided not to renew the appointment for coach Rose to continue coaching in the 2011 season.

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  • Orchestra director selected best in state

    Tuesday, February 01, 2011 By: Kaitlyn Rabach

    Teachers directly impact the future, but oftentimes, their accomplishments go unrecognized. After 23 years of teaching, orchestra director Tim Staudacher was recently awarded the Michigan School B

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  • Education fund surplus allows for decrease in student to teacher ratio

    Monday, January 31, 2011 By: Tyler Miller

    New teachers were hired for the spring term in order to reduce class sizes

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Issue Date: Monday, February 07, 2011 Issue: Week of Feb. 7, 2011
 
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News
A Novi High senior was killed when struck by a car while stopped in his vehicle on the side of a freeway.
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Students who ditch school may buy their way into a lot of legal trouble under California's new truancy law, enacted last September. Parents, too.
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California drivers under 21 are finding it trickier to drink and drive since the state decided on a simple monitoring method: Issue them vertically printed driver's licences.
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Taken by surprise in the midst of a rebuilding effort, Mona Shores High's football coach is pondering his future following his dismissal by the school board.
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Some teachers don't like it, but the Roseville school board has approved five goals it believes will lead to a better learning environment for the 2011-2012 school year.
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What's this? Good school funding news? At Roseville High School, a budget surplus has allowed the hiring of new spring term teachers to improve the student-teacher ratio.
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Features
More teens are pressed into jobs these days, to pay for college, for personal needs and to help support their families. Some observers worry that too much of this focus will hurt their academics.
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What's it like to know that ever day you count on ridicule from classmates, and perhaps anger and even violence? Ask those whose sexual orientation draws such behavior.
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The orchestra at Mona Shores High is officially learning from the best, now that the Michigan School Band and Orchestra Association has chosen director Tim Staudacher as tops in state.
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Thanks partly to an attentive student who paid attention to her parents' conversation with a friend in the wind turbine business, Mona Shores High hopes to harness wind power in coming years.
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