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But was it rape?

In the early hours of Feb. 3, 2008, on a street less than a mile from her Xavier dorm, Emily Vassil says she became a statistic - the one of every five women who, according to the U.S. Justice Department, is raped during a five-year college career.

Veteran teacher Eve Bolton's certainly not the first member of the labor movement to win a seat on a school board. But her involvement in both contracts leads critics to say she's got a potential conflict of interest.

For the second time in four winters, the district eliminated school bus service for Little Miami High School students as part of budget cuts after a recent tax levy defeat. It's becoming a tradition that school officials and parents would rather do without.

Cincinnati-area Catholics and other parents are worried about Ohio's Ed Choice program, which subsidizes private-school tuition for children who attend or live near low-rated public schools. Local parents in recent weeks received fliers urging them to attend Ed Choice meetings and sign up their children.

In the Cincinnati area, where legend holds that trends come 10 years late, "sexting" arrived well ahead of time. Teens here are taking nude photos of themselves or others, sending them on their cell phones or posting them online. Some teens do it as a joke.

Many of the tutoring firms that received federal money to tutor CPS students last year received low scores on an annual evaluation by CPS. But it is unclear whether the low scores reflect the quality of the tutoring or a lack of information about student progress.

Cincinnati Public Schools and its leading labor union have agreed to hold salary scales and benefits unchanged for 2009.

On Friday, more than 400 high school students from 18 Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky schools attended the 2008 International Education Summit on "Emerging Careers in Global Sustainability."

The economic downturn is taking a toll on many school budgets. Many school districts across the country have turned down thermostats, cut travel and supplies, stopped hiring to shave dollars off their budgets.

Cincinnati Public Schools officials Friday contested claims by the mother of a mentally retarded student that school officials would not meet with her after her disabled son was bullied and threatened