The James Logan Courier

By Laurence Iliff
The Dallas Morning News (MCT)

MEXICO CITY — Schools closed Friday for 6.1 million students across Mexico City and its suburbs, along with public museums and libraries, due to an unusually fierce swine flu outbreak that has killed at least 20 people. Another 40 deaths are being investigated for a connection to the virus.

Authorities in the capital — home to about half of the 18 million people in the metropolitan area — planned to hand out surgical-type masks on the crowded subway and public bus system, prohibit mass events and perhaps even cancel professional soccer matches in an attempt to contain the outbreak.

Courier Staff Report

The process of nominating teachers and counselors for the annual House Teacher of the Year awards has already resulted in dozens of nominations being turned in, and hundreds more of the nominating forms are expected to be turned in when phase one of the process of choosing the winners ends, the nomination phase, ends Wednesday afternoon.

This is the 14th year of the program, according to organizers, through which parents, students, staff and administrators are invited to participate in choosing teachers for the honor of House Teacher-of-the-Year.

This year, there will be four winners, one for each "house," said Language Arts teacher Tim Campbell, one of the event’s organizers.