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LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers will be back Monday after two months with a dueling education hearing and forum on social and emotional learning. The Education Committee will meet in State Capitol Room 1525 at 1:30 p.m. Monday to consider three studies offered by State Sen. Dave Murman of Glenvil, the committee’s chair. Legislative Resolutions 147, […]

The teacher shortage has given new life to the effort to junk basic-skills testing for Nebraska teachers.

"It is important to us that we are as non-partisan as possible, and it's important to the election commission that we are not attempting to register people for my party or your party, but that we are attempting to register people so that they'll vote regardless of their party affiliation," Egan said. Egan was passionate to get would-be voters prepared for the upcoming election in November, helped by the information pamphlets put together by the election commissioner's of...

The adored outgoing head of Letchworth's Icknield Infant School, Jackie Egan, has said goodbye to the school she has taught at for almost three decades.

Wealthy Republican Launches Multi-Million-Dollar Air War To Win GOP Presidential Primary. By Jim Nintzel STEVE FORBES IS back on our television screens. The multimillionaire publishing heir returned to Arizona airwaves last week as part of a national campaign to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2000. Forbes spent tens of thousands of dollars statewide in the first week of the campaign, with plans to spend plenty more in the months to come. Nationwide, Forbes is expected to spend ...