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- ...that since 2002, New York's Middletown High School (pictured} has seen the district superintendent convicted of sexual abuse, had one principal resign and another suspended, had two student walkouts and was ordered to reinstate a teacher?
- ...that Vera Pezer, current Chancellor of the University of Saskatchewan, is a four-time Canadian Ladies' curling champion and a member of the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame?
- ...that The Harvey School, a rural school in New York, was established to give an education to the founder's handicapped son?
- ...that C.W.W. Kannangara, Sri Lanka's first Minister of Education, made education free for all children in the country?
- ...that the accuracy of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth was challenged in the English High Court of Justice case Dimmock v Secretary of State for Education and Skills?

