The nation鈥檚 schoolchildren aren鈥檛 the only ones taking a vacation from school. When it relaunched its Web site last month nixed the 鈥淓ducation鈥� news link on its home page in favor of a category dubbed 鈥淔unny News,鈥� Dan Brown reports on the .
So now you鈥檒l have to drill deep into the Web site for a video report on the crisis in Los Angeles鈥� schools, or for news articles on the latest education studies. But if your brain is on summer break, you can easily find much lighter fare. Like the story chronicling an Oregon man鈥檚 ; or the one about the bank robber in Manchester, N.H., .
Some Huffington Post readers blasted the decision, while comments on CNN.com generally praise the network for its redesigned homepage. Mitch Gelman, CNN.com鈥檚 senior executive producer, noted in an email that CNN has not reduced its coverage of education news and issues. 鈥淲e are still covering education, are still publishing the , and will be bringing back an education destination page at some point post-relaunch,鈥� he wrote.
