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1. High school graduation lands cheering S.C. mom in jail
(U.S./Nation)

... without precedent. Mt. Healthy Junior/Senior High School in Ohio denied student Anthony Cornist his diploma due to excessive celebrating by family and supporters. In fact, school officials told Cornist ...

2. Mitt Romney's cheap shot at Jimmy Carter shows why he will lose to President Obama
(Opinion/Commentary)

... did indeed make a gutsy go/no go call. It turned out to be a tactical, strategic and political disaster…. With another helicopter, the mission to rescue U.S. diplomats then captive in Teheran might well ...

3. Pentagon: No U.S. military boots in North Korea
(U.S./Nation)

BY GINA G. SCALA NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Days after reporting the U.S. military parachuted into North Korea on an intel-gathering mission, current-affairs magazine The Diplomat acknowledges a possibility ...

4. Dear Gov. Christie: Test our teens' health knowledge
(Life/Style)

...  Yet health remains on the periphery of the high school curriculum, and tests in the subject are not required for a diploma. This lack of respect for the topic leads many students to become apathetic ...

5. DOE: 17 out of every 100 New Jersey high school students failed to graduate in 2011
(N.J./State)

... the transition from HSPA to new end-of-course assessments, we are taking a crucial step not only to increase the number of high school graduates, but to make a New Jersey diploma the gold standard for ...

6. New Jersey MENTOR to create over 200 jobs: 3 job fairs set for May
(N.J./State)

... a job offering flexible hours and competitive wages. They must be 18 years or older, have a high school diploma or equivalent, and hold a valid driver’s license. “We would not be able to provide the ...

7. Christie supports proposals to make high school graduates ready for college, workforce
(N.J./State)

... or a career. These new graduation requirements will better measure college and career readiness so that a high school diploma earned in New Jersey is the gold standard for the country.” 24 states, including ...

8. Affiliated Dermatology in Morristown mourns loss of Emil Bisaccia, M.D.
(Health/Healthquest)

... New Jersey’s Top Docs, The Best Doctors in America, Strathmore’s Who’s Who Among America’s Cosmetic Doctors, America’s Top Physicians and Best Docs. A diplomat of the American Board of Dermatology, ...

9. Rutgers football: Jawan Jamison and Savon Huggins to likely form running back by committee
(Sports/Professional)

... Huggins? While it’s likely the latter will happen, head coach Kyle Flood made sure to be diplomatic with his answer, as it’s only April. “If one guy performed at a level that pulled him away from the ...

10. Former Livingston resident Diorgiton Silva indicted on stolen identity, credit fraud charges
(N.J./State)

... of the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security. It is alleged that between April 2005 and November 2009, Silva used the identity of a man who lives in Puerto Rico to obtain credit cards ...

11. State, Prudential Financial team up to link employers to New Jersey veterans
(N.J./State)

... that awards high school diplomas to veterans who dropped out to serve in World War II, Korea and Vietnam; honor Gold Star Families with a special license plate for families of members of the military killed ...

12. Bloomberg's NYPD spying on Muslims gets OK from citizens: 'Islamophobia' still present
(Opinion/Commentary)

... politician, scientist and inventor, diplomat, and a Founding Father of the United States. Becoming the prominent face of the $100 bill, Franklin was a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and ...

13. Higher education must meet job market challenges
(Opinion/Commentary)

... school students want to graduate with an expectation of getting into a good college or university of their choice. College students want to leave their institution not just with a diploma, but with skills ...

14. N.J.'s wine maestros remove the mystery of wine selection
(Life/Style)

... backs up his passion with knowledge. He is a certified specialist in wine and is very close to receiving his diploma with distinction of Wine & Spirits from England's Wine & Spirit Education Trust. ...

15. online education
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Indeed, workers lacking high school diplomas saw their unemployment rate jump 6.6 percentage points in June vs. a 2.3 point increase for college grads who has their degree from one of the High Speed U ...

16. Political fears driving up gas prices are legitimate
(Opinion/Commentary)

... around? That’s anyone’s guess. Hopefully diplomacy will work, peace will prevail, global oil inventories will remain stable, and prices will fall – but then again perhaps not. While we can speculate ...

17. N.J. Assembly panel approves bill raising mandatory school attendance from age 16 to 18
(N.J./State)

... wages, taxable income, health, welfare and incarceration costs. About a quarter of those who entered high school this year won't earn a diploma, and according to the National Center for Education Statistics, ...

18. Sheltered workshops for developmentally disabled should be revisited
(Opinion/Commentary)

... Vanier, a Canadian son of a diplomat, founded “L'Arche”, a movement that recognized that people with intellectual disabilities have value. Beginning with two individuals with developmental disabilities ...

19. Gov. Chris Christie 2012 State of the State Address
(N.J./State)

... receive high school diplomas in four years. Asbury Park is similar: per pupil costs, at almost $30,000 a year, are nearly 75 percent above the state average. But the dropout rate is almost 10 times the ...

20. Architecture, arts majors have higher unemployment rate, finds Georgetown study
(Money/Economy)

... necessity of earning a college degree. For candidates with only a high school diploma, the unemployment level is almost 23 percent. For high school dropouts, the level increases even more to 31.5 percent. ...