World-Herald News Service LINCOLN – The Omaha Public Schools superintendent and at least one state senator are crying foul after Gov. Dave Heineman asked the state’s major education groups to support repeal of the federal health-care reforms or face possible cuts in state funding.

THE Province of Iloilo has numerous child laborers. Instead of spending more time in school, these children endanger themselves in sectors like sugarcane plantation, commercial agriculture, fishing, domestic work, pyrotechnics, mining and quarrying, scavenging and commercial sexual exploitation.

Maine lost out in the federal Race to the Top education-reform competition, but the state’s schools will still move ahead with a key tenet of the reform agenda Maine outlined in its application for up to $75 million.

The South Dakota Education Department says 95 percent of the state’s public school districts made adequate yearly progress under the federal No Child Left Behind Law, up 1 percent from the previous year.