Today’s Top Picks:

New Brookings Institution report looks at economic segregation in schools. It finds Utah in better shape than national average.
http://goo.gl/5Nnrc (SLT)
and http://goo.gl/71MJ1 (Ed Week)
and http://goo.gl/y6dI1 (CNN)
or a copy of the study
http://goo.gl/votUz

Utah Technology Council says there’s a talent shortage in Utah.
http://goo.gl/Tqscf (DN)

KSL and D-News continue to follow the Canyons Superintendent Doty story.
http://goo.gl/LxrS4 (DN)
and http://goo.gl/JGbIl (KSL)

Trib speaks up against the process for picking State School Board candidates.
http://goo.gl/X8VT3

What happens when you aren’t part of the common core and people look at your math standards? Take Texas as an example.
http://goo.gl/NBl3w (Austin A-S)
and http://goo.gl/YkMkp (Texas Tribune)
Dallas Morning News editorial: http://goo.gl/dAvkI

Should teachers friend students on Facebook?
http://goo.gl/gQzHW (AP)

Not too long ago ENR’s doctor put him on a diet that has put ENR in the running for the American Broccoli Council’s Man of the Year, but he’s a fat old man. What are kids going to think if that same diet hits schools?
http://goo.gl/5EfJE (Reuters)
and http://goo.gl/dtQGq (Ed Week)
or a copy of the poll
http://goo.gl/Lzilt

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TODAY’S HEADLINES
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UTAH

Utah betters nation in access to high-scoring schools Education » Zoning limits, housing prices exacerbate “economic segregation.”

Utah must confront talent shortage, executives say

Canyons chief sees no need for survey, investigation

Economy, education, energy are guv’s focus

2012 Should be More Moderate Politically in Utah

Whooping cough outbreak reported in Cache Valley

Ethics, financial training given to school administrators

Olympus principal earns top honor from Granite School District Mark Manning » Administrator is focused on “building” students, engaging community.

Davis High sophomore a ‘Judge for a Day’

West Valley City students to visit Taiwan, stay with families Sister cities » Nantou will send students to Utah during the summer.

Discovery learning a major national trend in education

New technology bolsters education

Students receive $3,000 scholarship based on service

Utah teens vie for presidential scholarship

Bountiful teen vies for presidential scholarship

AMES student vies for presidential scholarship

School’s yearbook receives recognition

Benefit concert for Oakridge School tonight

Students organize Rock-a-Palooza at Spanish Fork High

Gallery hosts student and alumni exhibit

Granite paraeducators saluted for service

Virtual high school looking for students

The Leonardo to offer kids’ camps, workshops

OPINION & COMMENTARY

School board sham
Time to end undemocratic process

Students aren’t the only ones who are out of control

Value experience

Views shared about school funding, Stewart case

Kids not safely positioned in earthquake drill

Texas needs better math standards

The Future of Vocational Education

Are Lawmakers Asking Too Much of Our Schools?

The Unscientific Model: “Academic Freedom’s” Creationist Pedigree

NATION

Should teachers and students be Facebook friends?

Think carrots, not candy as school snack, group suggests

Berkeley High students hack into attendance system

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UTAH NEWS
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Utah betters nation in access to high-scoring schools Education » Zoning limits, housing prices exacerbate “economic segregation.”

Utahns looking for affordable housing near high-performing schools fare better than their counterparts nationally. But some low-income children, especially in the Salt Lake Valley, have less access to good schools because of zoning restrictions and housing costs, according to a study from the Brookings Institution released Thursday.
The corridor stretching from Ogden to Provo was among 100 metropolitan areas in the country that Brookings targeted in an effort to estimate the actual cost of living near a given public school and determine whether local zoning laws influence school test scores. The study’s author says the analysis found that “access to high-scoring schools is unequal by income and race because that access is constrained by housing availability and cost.”
http://goo.gl/5Nnrc (SLT)

http://goo.gl/71MJ1 (Ed Week)

http://goo.gl/y6dI1 (CNN)

A copy of the study
http://goo.gl/votUz

Utah must confront talent shortage, executives say

Utah’s economy will struggle if the state’s talent supply doesn’t meet demand, area business executives said at the Utah Technology Council’s annual members’ meeting.
Leaders at the UTC event, at Salt Lake’s Little America hotel, called for partnerships with universities and support of K-12 education programs in order to raise a skilled workforce to meet demands for talent.
“Right now it’s a limited talent pool,” John Spigiel, General Manager at the Watson Labs, an arm of New Jersey-based Watson Pharmaceuticals, said in an interview with the Deseret News. “And there are too many businesses within our industry that are competing for the same resources.”
Spigiel extended an internship offer to a business student, but the student turned it down because he had already received three other offers.
“We need to recognize that this is a problem in Utah,” Spigiel said. “If we have a highly technical and educated workforce, then companies will come. The demand for technology is rising.”
http://goo.gl/Tqscf (DN)

Canyons chief sees no need for survey, investigation

SANDY — Canyons School District Superintendent David Doty said he would not call for an investigation into complaints his administration had censured employees, and he does not support the suggestion employees be surveyed anonymously to see if they have complaints.
Both items came up at a school board meeting Tuesday night, where administrative culture in the district was both praised and criticized. The discussion remained lively Wednesday, with news coverage of the meeting attracting a significant number of comments both supporting and criticizing the district’s administration and the call for an investigation.
Doty’s comments came on KSL Newsradio’s Doug Wright show Wednesday morning as Doty answered Wright’s questions and presented his view of the controversy in a 30-minute live interview. Doty said he honors and respects teachers in the district and wants their feedback, but he said he doesn’t believe a survey is necessary.
“I have a big problem with anonymous surveys,” he said.
As for an investigation, “If the board feels that’s necessary, of course I will be willing to do that,” Doty said. “Am I going to initiate it myself? No.”
http://goo.gl/LxrS4 (DN)

http://goo.gl/JGbIl (KSL)

Economy, education, energy are guv’s focus

Gov. Gary Herbert outlined the goals of his administration at a Hinckley forum Wednesday.
His administration intends to focus on what he calls the three E’s: economy, education and energy.
http://goo.gl/e5vZd (Chrony)

2012 Should be More Moderate Politically in Utah

Even before the March 15 GOP neighborhood caucuses, Utah political experts were saying that the big push to get more registered Republicans to those delegate-electing meetings would mean the 2012 crop of delegates would be more moderate, less angry, than the 2010 gaggle that kicked U.S. Sen. Bob Bennett out of office in the state Republican Party Convention.
Now an in-depth poll by Dan Jones & Associates, sponsored by the non-partisan Utah Foundation and the University of Utah Hinckley Institute of Politics, shows such is the case.
In short, says foundation president Steve Kroes, the 2012 batch of 4,000 state GOP delegates is more closely matched with the important political issues this year with GOP voters in general than the 2010 delegates were with the Republican base two years ago.
“There was a change in ideology this year in the surge of caucus” attendees, said Kroes.
http://goo.gl/2QrxD (UPD)

http://goo.gl/4hLmE (KCPW)

Whooping cough outbreak reported in Cache Valley

LOGAN, Utah – Health officials say an outbreak of Pertussis has been reported in Cache Valley.
Bear River Health Department officials say 7 confirmed cases have been detected, with two other probable patients being treated.
Pertussis is a contagious, bacterial disease that causes severe, prolonged coughing fits.
During the last three weeks, health officials say students from elementary to junior high ages may have been exposed to Pertussis within the Bear River Health District, which consists of Box Elder and Cache Counties.
Health officials say that students who have not completed the proper series of vaccinations and booster shots against Pertussis may be required to stay home by school officials.
http://goo.gl/VWiwP (KTVX)

Ethics, financial training given to school administrators

SALT LAKE CITY — The State Office of Education will conduct a series of training sessions with school administrators, athletic directors and local board members on financial management procedures and ethics.
Carol Lear, director of law and legislation, said between four and five regional sessions will be held around the state during the month of May.
The sessions come during an investigation into the financial transactions of Louis Wong, who was suspended without pay in March from his position as football coach at Timpview High School. A state audit raised allegations that Wong had in appropriately charged personal expenses to the school and accepted compensation from a clothing company.
http://goo.gl/x2KLF (KSL)

Olympus principal earns top honor from Granite School District Mark Manning » Administrator is focused on “building” students, engaging community.

Mark Manning still roams the halls of his alma mater, not as a student, but as the award-winning principal of Olympus High School.
Manning was named Secondary Administrator of the Year by the Granite Association of School Administrators. He received the news at the end of January, but no one at Olympus knew about it for about two months because he didn’t tell anyone.
http://goo.gl/sWXwy (SLT)

Davis High sophomore a ‘Judge for a Day’

FARMINGTON — Carissa Uresk, sitting next to the court clerk, flipped through the pages of the court calendar as the judge called each case to the podium.
The Davis High School sophomore is one of six students selected to participate in the “Judge for a Day” program in 2nd and 3rd district courts during April and May.
This is the seventh year for the program, which was organized to give high school students a behind-the-scenes look at what happens in courtrooms, officials said.
http://goo.gl/GcSbY (OSE)

West Valley City students to visit Taiwan, stay with families Sister cities » Nantou will send students to Utah during the summer.

West Valley City • More than 7,000 miles separates West Valley City from Nantou, Taiwan, but efforts over the past dozen years have made that distance seem significantly shorter.
Nantou is one of West Valley’s two sister cities, and they have spent more than a dec­ade as close as siblings can be, exchanging art exhibits, library books, photos and business ideas.
This year, for the first time in a decade, they will exchange students.
Nine high-school students from throughout Salt Lake County will travel to Nantou in June for a 29-day immersion in Taiwanese and Chinese culture, language and art.
http://goo.gl/i87io (SLT)

Discovery learning a major national trend in education

Laura Lanwermeyer lists items on the board — baby carrots, string, cornstarch, sugar, salt, water, plastic bags, baking soda, ice.
“Now use any of these items to design an experiment to show osmosis,” she tells her class of 9th-grade biology students at Selinsgrove Area High School in Pennslyvania.
The students have been introduced to the concept of osmosis — water moves from solutions of low concentration to solutions of high concentration — but Lanwermeyer hasn’t told them how to show osmosis itself. As the students set to work planning their experiments, it’s clear they have no idea what they are doing. A few discuss the possible uses of string. Others debate which “chemicals” cause water transfer. Lanwermeyer doesn’t intervene, other than to ask a question here and there.
Lanwermeyer’s teaching style, called discovery learning by experts, is one of the hottest trends in education theory. Discover learning teachers allow students to discover scientific concepts on their own through trial and error, debate and reflection.
http://goo.gl/uEzUm (DN)

http://goo.gl/n8O7v (Teacher Magazine)

New technology bolsters education

Two side-by-side photos in a history of West Point Elementary tell a story.
On the left, students from Mr. Albert Wright’s class in the late 1930s write with pencils at desks made of wood and wrought iron. Behind them are lessons written in chalk on a blackboard.
On the right is a 1995 photo of fourth-graders, each at a personal computer typing on keyboards. To their left is a dry erase board.
Such is the rise of technology in the Davis School District.
http://goo.gl/5MrA7 (OSE)

Students receive $3,000 scholarship based on service

OGDEN — Nine high school seniors and one current Weber State University student are learning the value of service.
The Rotary Club of Ogden presented each of the students with a $3,000 scholarship.
Seven of the scholarships were paid through the Stewart Education Foundation at Weber State University, and three were from the Rotary Club of Ogden Foundation and its members.
http://goo.gl/uVJj1 (OSE)

Utah teens vie for presidential scholarship

Shelby M. Jorgensen, a senior at the Utah County Academy of Sciences in Pleasant Grove; Andrew J. Johnson, of Riverton High School; and Nikolaos G. Liodakis, of Hillcrest High School in Sandy, are semifinalists for a U.S. Presidential Scholarship. Finalists will be announced in May. The awards are based on ACT or SAT scores, essays, extracurricular activities and awards, transcripts and recommendations from teachers and principals.
http://goo.gl/pKXSV (SLT)

Bountiful teen vies for presidential scholarship

Bountiful High School senior Stephen M. Ward is a semifinalist for a U.S. Presidential Scholarship. Finalists will be announced in May. The awards are based on ACT or SAT scores, essays, extracurricular activities and awards, transcripts and recommendations from teachers and principals. Stephen is among 550 semifinalists chosen from a pool of 3,300 candidates. Finalists are invited to Washington, D.C., for an awards ceremony in June.
http://goo.gl/C3jS8 (SLT)

AMES student vies for presidential scholarship

Malia L. Stephens, a senior at the Academy for Math, Engineering & Science, a Holladay charter school, is a semifinalist for a U.S. Presidential Scholarship. Finalists will be announced in May. The awards are based on ACT or SAT scores, essays, extracurricular activities and awards, transcripts and recommendations from teachers and principals. Malia is among 550 semifinalists chosen from a pool of 3,300 candidates.
http://goo.gl/hqRNz (SLT)

School’s yearbook receives recognition

ST. GEORGE – Snow Canyon Middle School’s yearbook, The Spartan, has been recognized for excellence and featured in the 2012 Gotcha Covered Look Book, Volume 10, which celebrates the best of the best in yearbook design and creation.
Jostens’ Look Book is a collection of spreads and photos from outstanding yearbooks and their creative themes, cool covers, dazzling designs, relevant coverage, storytelling copy and action-packed photography. Along with design excellence, the annually published Look Book honors the important role well-crafted yearbooks play in helping schools chronicle the experiences, stories and achievements most relevant to students.
http://goo.gl/6fvSD (SGS)

Benefit concert for Oakridge School tonight

Oakridge School, a school for the severely handicapped students for all of Nebo School District, proudly presents The Piano Guys, John Schmidt and Steven Sharp Nelson, at a concert at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Springville High School auditorium, 1205 E. 900 South.
http://goo.gl/ReNK3 (PDH)

Students organize Rock-a-Palooza at Spanish Fork High

Spanish Fork High School will foster student independence with one of its last concerts of the school year, “Rock-a-Palooza,” which will be held on Thursday and Friday.
http://goo.gl/7jfBx (PDH)

Gallery hosts student and alumni exhibit

Judge Memorial Catholic High School’s annual Alumni and Student Art Show is May 3-10 at the Evergreen Gallery, 3295 S. 2000 East. In addition to original art, exhibit opening will feature music and poetry readings. The show will include digital works, fine art, photography, pottery and sculpture. Proceeds from any art sales will benefit the school. In addition, 20 percent of the sale of any accessories will be donated to Judge.
http://goo.gl/hik5v (SLT)

Granite paraeducators saluted for service

Granite School District recently honored a group of special ed paraeducators: Asiya Ahmend, Hartvigsen; Debbie Armstrong, Jones Center; Kristen Nelson, Oakridge; Erin Payne, District Behavior Support; Penny Peterson, Silver Hills; Julia Pearce, District Related Services Assistant; Ken Prater, West Lake Junior High; Jenny Seaton, Kearns Junior High; Jana Williams, Magna; Ellie Winder, GIFTS Program; and retirees Deb Spark and Jeff Rydalch.
http://goo.gl/49ltO (SLT)

Virtual high school looking for students

Open High School of Utah (OHSU), a full-service online high school, will host an open house for parents and potential students to meet teachers, parents and current OHSU students from 10:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. April 28, at the Sandy Library, 10100 Petunia Way (1397 East). OHSU is accredited and employs full-time certified teachers. OHSU is a public charter school open to any high school-age student living in Utah.
http://goo.gl/ChHpm (SLT)

The Leonardo to offer kids’ camps, workshops

The Leonardo, a Salt Lake City museum that blends science, technology and creativity, is offering summer camps and workshops for students in grades five through 12. The four-day camps and workshops run June 11 through Aug. 10, and cost $165 each ($135 for members). To register, contact Jen Cassidy at jcassidy@theleonardo.org, or 801-531-9800 ext. 131. A detailed scheduled is at www.theleonardo.org.
http://goo.gl/wXFAK (SLT)

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OPINION & COMMENTARY
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School board sham
Time to end undemocratic process
Salt Lake Tribune editorial

The superfluous State Board of Education nominating committee is nothing but an extraneous barrier between Utah voters and the people who want to represent them on the state board.
The fact that the committee has decided to take out of the hands of voters the decision of whether to re-elect incumbent board members is clear evidence that this undemocratic process should be shelved. A direct, nonpartisan election should take its place.
The committee this week decided that Janet Cannon, who has been chosen four times by her constituents to serve them on the board, will not be re-elected. If voters were allowed to return Cannon to her seat, they would be making a mistake, according to the committee chairman. And he and his cohorts won’t let that happen.
They ruled that Cannon, despite her popularity among voters, is not as qualified as other applicants for the job. They also rejected a first-term incumbent, Carol Murphy.
For 12 committee members to take that responsibility away from voters is outrageous, arrogant and, of course, reflective of the power of conservative Republicans in the Beehive State, Republicans who want to micromanage all phases of public education despite their lack of knowledge about it.
http://goo.gl/X8VT3

Students aren’t the only ones who are out of control Deseret News commentary by columnist Lois M. Collins

It’s great fun to be a Monday morning quarterback, second-guessing the plays that other people have made. So I’ll claim that title right up front and admit that I wasn’t there when police in Georgia were dealing with an out-of-control suspect in an assault on a school principal.
But the fact that the miscreant they hauled down to the police station in handcuffs was a kindergarten student who’d been throwing a temper tantrum gives me pause and leads to a question I suspect others are asking, as well: What are we doing?
http://goo.gl/iwkof

Value experience
Deseret News letter from Kevin Wilson

A recent letter said teachers of core subjects should make more money than the other teachers (“Differential teacher pay,” Readers’ Forum, April 13). Also, the author said a teacher’s payscale should not be based on longevity. I would like to address both issues.
All teachers have special gifts they have enhanced through a lifetime of education, practice, and learning. To say that core teachers require more education than the non-core teachers is misleading. Our continual trainings are often performed at our own expense and on our own time. Look at an art, music, history, or even a physical education teacher and see how much time they have spent developing their skill and knowledge in their respected area of expertise. Is their gift less valued?
http://goo.gl/YKEFm

Views shared about school funding, Stewart case
(Ogden) Standard-Examiner letter from James Duffy

We have been sending our grandson to pre-school so he could start kindergarten. He turned five in September of 2011. Today, my daughter went to pre-register him in kindergarten for this year. She was told he would only be able to attend a half-day because he lived on the wrong side of the street (tracks).
My daughter and son-in-law both work and are barely making it. We have been paying taxes in Weber and Davis County and get nothing in return. The predominate religion pays their tithing to one of the richest churches in the world, yet Utah is 49th, next to Mississippi in dollars spent per child. This something to really be proud of.
http://goo.gl/Jb3KI

Kids not safely positioned in earthquake drill
(Ogden) Standard-Examiner letter from Mable Lowe

I could not help but notice the picture on the front page April 18, accompanying the article, “Scrutinizing preparedness,” with students positioned under their desks. Having “ridden out” several earthquakes during more than three decades of teaching, I find must comment.
The desks have adjustable legs. When the ceiling collapses, the legs “adjust” downward. The young lady, as positioned, could be severely injured since her neck is not being protected. As the desk is positioned, if the child does not panic and the desk is not obstructed from movement from falling debris, the desk will move, and pivot from the holding hand.
http://goo.gl/9dSHC

Texas needs better math standards
Dallas Morning News editorial

The members of the State Board of Education need to stop their rush this week to approve math standards for Texas students. Textbook publishers may be waiting for a final vote, but it’s more important that the state get the benchmarks right.
Gov. Rick Perry especially should pay attention to the board’s deliberations. He has been proud that Texas hasn’t joined the vast majority of states that recently approved a set of national standards for students. If the state doesn’t come up with a demanding, clear set of them for math instruction, it will have validated the criticism that gave rise to the national standards movement. That is, states are not serious about setting rigorous ones.
The math issue has come to the fore since respected mathematicians, the Texas Association of Business and education activists such as Texas conservative Donna Garner have raised questions about the standards. Even opponents of national guidelines have looked at Texas’ proposed math priorities and found them wanting.
http://goo.gl/dAvkI

The Future of Vocational Education
The Nation commentary by columnist Dana Goldstein

In Iowa today, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan will unveil the Obama administration’s new vocational education plan. The president proposes to revise the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act by investing an additional $1 billion to increase partnerships between high schools, colleges and employers, with the goal of directing students toward high-needs industries such as engineering and healthcare.
But the choice of venue for the announcement—the Des Moines Area Community College—underscores a critique of the president’s education and jobs agenda aired on both the right and left: that it focuses too much on post–high school occupational training, and not enough on introducing younger adolescents to the world of work outside the classroom.
http://www.thenation.com/node/167476

http://goo.gl/fo8oB (Ed Week)

http://goo.gl/4Yqal (ED)

Are Lawmakers Asking Too Much of Our Schools?
The Atlantic commentary by Jean Johnson, senior fellow at Public Agenda

If public school superintendents and principals could sit down and talk with local, state, and federal lawmakers, seeking relief from the thicket of regulation and red tape controlling America’s schools today would surely be high on their agenda. In nationwide surveys and interviews Public Agenda has conducted through the years, school leaders have repeatedly conveyed that mandates, bureaucracy, and process consume too much of their time and school resources, and undercut their capacity to exercise judgment.
http://goo.gl/PeobJ

The Unscientific Model: “Academic Freedom’s” Creationist Pedigree Media Matters for America commentary by columnist Simon Maloy

To listen to the Discovery Institute, Tennessee’s “academic freedom” law, which is based on Discovery Institute model legislation, has nothing to do with creationism or religion. “The bill includes a clear statement that it only applies to teaching science and does not protect teaching religion,” wrote Casey Luskin, research coordinator at the institute’s Center for Science and Culture, on March 20. “Don’t expect that to satisfy critics, who will predictably ignore the actual language of the bill and falsely claim it would introduce religion in the classroom.”
It’s difficult to take these denials seriously, though, given that the language of the model bill and its stated intention of promoting “academic freedom” trace their pedigrees through a series of court battles spanning several decades of creationist efforts to inject religion into public school science classes. The model bill is designed to obviate the legal hurdles raised by previous successful challenges to creationism in the classroom.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201204170015

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NATIONAL NEWS
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Education panel mulls new math standards; critics say they don’t measure up Austin (TX) American-Statesman

As almost every other state signed on to national math curriculum standards in recent years, Texas opted to go it alone.
But when outside analyses found Texas’ math standards to be lagging behind the national Common Core Standards, the state got to work on closing that gap. The State Board of Education could vote this week on updated math standards.
Business leaders, however, say the new standards are still problematic.
“In fact, the currently proposed standards are actually worse and less rigorous than the Common Core Standards,” Bill Hammond, president of the Texas Association of Business, recently wrote to the board.
The concern is that Texas students are not learning mathematical concepts on par with their peers in other countries.
http://goo.gl/NBl3w

http://goo.gl/YkMkp (Texas Tribune)

Should teachers and students be Facebook friends?
Associated Press

NEW YORK — Should students and teachers ever be friends on Facebook? School districts across the country, including the nation’s largest, are weighing that question as they seek to balance the risks of inappropriate contact with the academic benefits of social networking.
At least 40 school districts nationwide have approved social media policies. Schools in New York City and Florida have disciplined teachers for Facebook activity, and Missouri legislators recently acquiesced to teachers’ objections to a strict statewide policy.
http://goo.gl/gQzHW

Think carrots, not candy as school snack, group suggests Reuters

WASHINGTON – Junk food may soon be hard to buy at American public schools as the U.S. government readies new rules requiring healthier foods to be sold beyond the cafeteria – a move most parents support, according to a poll released on Thursday.
With childhood obesity rising, the survey found most people agreed the chips, soda and candy bars students buy from vending machines or school stores in addition to breakfast and lunch are not nutritious, and they support a national standard for foods sold at schools.
The findings from the advocacy group Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project came as the federal government prepares to roll out a nationwide standard that may set up another battle among health experts, schools and the food industry.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is expected to issue its guidelines by June, according to some experts. These could limit the amount of sugar, salt and fat foods sold at schools could contain.
http://goo.gl/5EfJE

http://goo.gl/dtQGq (Ed Week)

A copy of the poll
http://goo.gl/Lzilt

Berkeley High students hack into attendance system San Francisco Chronicle

BERKELEY — Fifty students at Berkeley High School could be suspended or expelled because school officials believe they are involved in hacking into a school attendance system and selling access to the system’s attendance records.
Students used an administrative password to erase absences and tardies from the school’s online attendance system, meaning students could skip class without their parents finding out, said Principal Pasquale Scuderi.
Scuderi said at least four students hacked into the system and were “literally selling the clearance of absences.” The students may also have changed attendance records as a favor to friends and acquaintances, Scuderi said.
Administrators are checking to see the extent of involvement by the other 46 students implicated in the investigation.
http://goo.gl/Iw00u

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