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Governor Deval Patrick testified this morning at the State House about his plan to create an Executive Office of Education. This would consolidate authority and responsibility for the commonwealth's education system from pre-kindergarten to higher education to one cabinet-level position in the State House.

A hot-pink color scheme. A dead ringer for Kate Bosworth on the cover. A first chapter that opens with lyrics from Loverboy's "Workin' for the Weekend." No kidding. Restless Virgins, a book on the Milton Academy sex scandal, just screams, "Bourgeois sex! Bourgeois sex! Yippee skippy!" The sex scandal in question didn't involve teachers (Exhibit A: Arlington's school system) but a 2005 incident in which one girl was - ahem - orally satisfying the sexual...

--Neighbors and family in Weymouth are still stunned by the murder of Joanna Mullin, allegedly by her own allegedly drug-addicted, not-allegedly spitting cousin. The judge who dealt with Ryan Bois called him an "animal" before sending him for a psychiatric evaluation. Norfolk DA Robert Nelson is arguing that Bois was fully aware of what he was doing when he attacked his cousin and took her body out of the house.

It may be one of those instances where giving ink to an item might have the opposite effect than intended. Waiting in the Kendall Station for the next train to take us across the Charles we've heard the echoes of the Kendall Band installation on occasion. It certainly isn't the rule. We'd actually be surprised if a majority of the regular riders know where the hand cranks are that operate the musical art installation. Truth...

--An alleged Bad Seed brought out the "Never a Good Idea" line from the BPD, and this time they wrote, "Disrespecting Mother Never a Good Idea." On Thursday in Roxbury, a 13-year-old suffered a case of hormones from hell. She was, according to the report, "swearing and throwing objects" at her own mother, and she kept on with that behavior when the police arrived at the scene. (The 13-year-old is allegedly not the sharpest tool in the shed.)

At first it seemed like it was just a ploy for sweeps. Deemed the first big snow storm of the season initial reports had upwards of eight inches falling on Boston. Local TV news stations have fired up the severe weather graphics, pulled in their storm teams, and gone to almost all weather all the time. The National Weather Service even issued a winter storm warning for the next 24 hours:... Winter Storm Warning...

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost. Londonist HQ—that is to say, the city of London—was battered by heavy winds, making it a bad time to be a twelve-meter (nearly forty-foot) tall snowman. Still, not everyone decided to keep warmly covered. Meanwhile, back indoors, the Big Brother racism is now causing all kinds of headaches for international diplomats, and Londonist got into...

Sunday. Usually, a quiet, contemplative day in the Blogosphere. But not here in the Ist-a-Verse. Nonono! Just look below and see all of the wild and crazy stuff our staffs are up to. In Austin, bands are beginning to confirm for SXSW and the rumor mill is up and running. Good thing, too, because we all know how much Austinites love live performances. Austin also found itself in the national spotlight, with Longhorn Legend...

"Michael Moore's films are great," Randy Olson has told the Kansas City Star, "but I've never seen a debate afterward." Olson's documentary, Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus, aims to provoke discussion through the filmmaker's encounters with inarticulate, media-shy evolutionary biologists and with advocates of intelligent design, a Totally Legitimate Scientific Theory that species were created miraculously appeared suddenly, designed by the Lord an intelligent entity with the power to do that kind of thing. Like all Totally Legitimate Science, the latter is seeking acceptance in public school classrooms in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Kansas before it moves on to peer-reviewed science journals. In Pennsylvania, the trial and subsequent ouster of the Dover school board resulted in the the most entertaining legal decision Bostonist has ever read the whole way through, as well as a dire predictions from Pat Robertson, Meteorologist of the Apocalypse.

Did you ever want to teach, but once you learned what kind of paycheck you'd be getting, you jumped into Corporate America instead? Well, Gov. Romney is going to attempt to make teaching in the state of Massachusetts more attractive by creating a bill, which would give public school teachers merit bonuses depending on their students' progress. If this bill gets the okay on Beacon Hill, 25,000 teachers or so could be getting up to...

Twenty lucky middle school graduates are taking a raincheck on Summer and enrolling in Beacon Academy, a new breed of private schools. Starting in July, students will attend 14 months of classes to prepare them for elite high schools. The kids will have classes Monday through Saturday, 9 to 5:30, studying art, sailing, squash, and chatting with university presidents over long lunches. The project was approved yesterday by the Boston School Committee, and is aimed at low income public school students who show academic promise but aren't academically and socially prepared for private schools. Tuition is $25,000, but the nonprofit school is offering lots of scholarships. The kids will get a weekly $20 allowance, though, so they can get the hang of ordering Starbucks.