AM News: District Votes To Go County-Wide

Chicago Votes To Give Nearly Half A Million Chicago Students Free Breakfast Tribune: Chicago's school board on Wednesday adopted a sweeping new program to offer free breakfasts in the classrooms of Chicago Public Schools' 410,000 students, expanding a federally funded initiative aimed at giving kids from low-income families a healthier start to their day... Memphis to Vote on Transferring School System to County AP:  Memphis voters will decide whether to merge their schools with those of the more prosperous Shelby County school system, which has been maneuvering to freeze out the city schools... Producer, stadium developers donate to group backing Villaraigosa's school board candidates LAT:  Developers seeking city approval to build a football stadium downtown as well as Democratic financier and producer Stephen Bing were among the major contributors to a committee set up to support Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's favored candidates for the Los Angeles Board of Education, new filings show...Texas may eliminate steroid testing program AP:  When Texas began testing tens of thousands of high school athletes for steroids, the goal was to stop teens from taking dangerous performance-enhancing drugs. The death of a 17-year-old baseball player in a Dallas suburb had drawn national attention to the hazard... Mass. dropout reform plan eyes paid parent leave AP:  A new proposal targeting Massachusetts' high school dropout rate would track students as early as third grade for warning signs and would require businesses to give parents up to 24 hours a year in paid leave for student academic needs... Board member won't resign after pregnancy remark AP:  A member of the Oklahoma state education board said Friday he would not resign amid criticism he was insensitive to a pregnant woman the panel hired to represent the state's 660,000 public school children at the Capitol...