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Officials defend grade policy

Pittsburgh Public Schools administrators last night defended a controversial policy that sets 50 percent as the minimum score a student may receive for classroom work, homework or marking periods, (Today)

Judge orders WVU to pay fees to PG

A West Virginia judge has ordered West Virginia University to pay attorneys fees and costs incurred by the Post-Gazette when it sued the university under the state's open records law last year. (Today)

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Executive Administrator Jacquelyn Hopkins looks through her office at the Holy Rosary Elementary School in Homewood. Files and papers were thrown throughout her office last night when vandals broke in, smashing windows on at least a dozen interior doors and stealing laptops and other electronics. This is the second break-in at the school since Christmas.

Homewood school broken into on Christmas burglarized again

On Monday, the first day of school after the holiday break, Principal Rita Canton couldn't quite bring herself to tell students that Holy Rosary Elementary School had been broken into on Christmas (Today)

	PG video: Holy Rosary School vandalized
	Files strewn around office

College degree is no job guarantee these days

In ordinary times, a college degree goes a long way toward securing employment, even during a recession. It also offers some measure of job security: Workers with at least a college diploma are less likely to lose their jobs in down times. But college grads are now finding that a postsecondary education isn't necessarily enough. (01/05/2009)

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Kristina Kostopoulos, a chemical engineering major, studies for a final exam last month in CMU's Hunt Library next to a privacy study chair.

Now college students can pull an all-nighter at the library

Somebody recently dropped an idea in the suggestion box at Carnegie Mellon University's library that sounded odd, even for a campus known for its punishing workload. (01/04/2009)

Alll-night libraries

Saturday, January 3, 2009