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Robert Bobb, the school district's emergency financial manager, has tried several policies to try to balance the books, including closing 59 schools.
ECONOMIST: Education policy
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Susan Pierce, superintendent for Moore Public Schools, said Tuesday the 23, 000-student district carried out its emergency plan, monitoring the weather Monday.
WSJ: Oklahoma Tornado: Long Minutes of Desperation Inside School Razed by Storm
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The way things work at present, they're taken to their local District General Hospital accident and emergency department, where they're sometimes met at the door by a junior doctor with little experience of their condition.
BBC: "Very significant heat in the system"
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The Antonov came down in an empty market in the al-Hassaba district as it tried to make an emergency landing after one of its engines failed.
BBC: Yemen military plane crash kills 10
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District of Columbia Mayor Anthony Williams declared a state of emergency for the city.
CNN: Attacks prompt widespread closings
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Teachers are practiced in emergency drills and there's an evacuation plan on paper in the district office.
NPR: Prayer And Waiting In Texas Town Rocked By Blast
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In Detroit, the ailing district has been under the control of a state-appointed emergency manager for almost three years.
WSJ: City Schools Gain in Reading, Math
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What we have in Detroit is an Emergency Manager appointed by the previous governor who was facing a challenge from the School District which was frustrated by his top-down approach to school reform.
FORBES: Michigan Emergency Manager Robert Bobb Issues Layoff Notice to All Detroit Public School Teachers
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Members like Missouri Republican Sam Graves who just two years ago begged President Obama for an emergency declaration freeing up big time federal bucks to aid the people in his home district in their hour of need following a severe natural disaster.
FORBES: GOP Congressmen Who Begged For Federal Aid In Disasters Striking Home Districts Vote Against Sandy Aid
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The ruling by U.S. District Judge Edward Korman of New York means consumers of any age could buy emergency contraception without a prescription instead of women first having to prove they're 17 or older, as they do today.
WSJ: NY judge makes morning-after pill available to all
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Russian emergency officials said the meteor was destroyed after it partially burned in the lower atmosphere over the Ural district.
CNN: Russian meteor shower causes blast; hundreds injured