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Fresh from his weeklong trip through Asia, President Barack Obama is taking time to catch up on dad duty.
Legislative auditors have faulted poor financial management by school districts for allowing questionable spending of public money, including the purchase of a $91,000 tow truck.
State officials are facing a second lawsuit filed in as many weeks accusing them of shortchanging public schools in violation of a state constitutional provision requiring a "high quality" education for Florida's children.
A 13-year-old French boy stole his father's hunting rifle and took it to school with the intention of shooting his teachers, but his family and police intervened before anyone was hurt, police said.
Hawaii Gov. Linda Lingle proposed a plan Sunday to end the state's hotly disputed teacher furloughs starting in January, using a rainy day budget fund and converting planning days for teachers into regular classroom time to cancel a 10 percent reduction in school days.
Jackie Chan didn't take acting lessons or attend a fancy conservatory. The biggest star in kung fu cinema learned his craft from a retired Peking Opera star who turned his apartment into a performing arts boot camp for working-class Hong Kong children in the 1960s.
Ohio parents who say their children endured long, complicated walks home are panning the disruption of school bus service for a Hollywood movie shoot.
Michigan will have to change state law to have any shot at a slice of more than $4 billion set aside by the Obama administration for states that shake up their public school systems, the state's schools chief said Thursday.
Variation in the way Washington teachers and other school staff are paid does not pose a constitutional problem, the Washington Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.
The mother of a 7-year-old Florida girl who was kidnapped and murdered thinks she knows what happened to the little girl who trusted everyone too much, no matter how often she was told about “stranger danger.”
Members of the State Board of Education expressed frustration that further cuts in Kansas public schools would hurt the quality of education.
More than 400 students escaped a three-alarm fire that heavily damaged a southeast Portland elementary school.
Upset by the treatment of U.S. military personnel, a 42-year-old father of an Army veteran sneaked a disassembled shotgun into a middle school just after classes began Tuesday, put it together in a bathroom, then held the principal hostage for more than two hours before surrendering without firing a shot, police said.
A fourth teen is facing murder charges in the beating death of a Chicago high school honor student last month.
The following is the percent of school-aged children from households receiving food stamps who were directly certified for free or reduced priced lunches by schools in 2008-2009. Percentages above 100 percent are possible because some school districts use federal programs in addition to food stamps to enroll students for free or reduced- price lunches.
Two 16-year-old boys have been charged as adults in the death of a 16-year-old girl who was shot after a homecoming football game in Long Beach.
In a small room at the University of South Florida, Maya Ueda and two classmates prepare for a Mandarin exam. A pot of green tea idles nearby and Chinese folk instruments, games and movies fill the cabinets and bookcases.
Federal prosecutors say a Colorado man charged with sexually abusing nine boys at a school he founded in Haiti was using his computer while in the United States to search for boys.
Attorneys general say a student loan company has agreed to forgive almost $113 million in debts for students of a Nevada-based helicopter flight school that went bankrupt in 2008.
A leading Jewish school asked Britain's Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that said it racially discriminated against a boy when it refused to accept him as a pupil because it did not recognize his mother as Jewish.
Two Oregon teenagers have admitted their role in an alleged plot to shoot students and administrators at schools in the Willamette Valley farming town of Turner.
Five students have been arrested for fighting at a Chicago high school less than a month after an honor student was killed in a brutal beating recorded in a cell phone video camera.
The stage in a long-closed central Indiana high school where James Dean first performed is up for sale.
A teen accused of wanting to blow up a western Colorado school allegedly talked with others about going out "in a blaze of glory like Columbine High School," according to an arrest affidavit.
The (somewhat strange) List: Foods banned by law in school cafeteriasWhen I think about the "foods of minimal nutritional value" that are banned from public school cafeterias by federal law, the first thing that pops into my mind is a doughnut, one made delicious by hideous amounts of fat and sugar.
Canadian parents win legal battle against homeworkLawyer-Parents fight for their Children. The basic story is that these parents saw no correlation between grades and homework, so they pressed charges against the school to stop the school from assigning and grading "useless" homework.
Filled my heart with such pride that, Lucifer himself would have been waiting for me at the gates of hell.
A few principals admitted they had not heard about "New Moon" or the "Twilight" series. "I try to keep up with what students are interested in," Rockford High School Principal Dan Zang said, "but I have not heard one word about this."
Indianapolis Schools Ban Atheism Websites | Unreasonable FaithThe Indianapolis Public School system has a policy to ban certain websites from being viewed at school. I certainly hated it when I was in high school (we found ways to bypass it if course) but it's a reasonable idea.
Teachers, parents meet after controversial lessonTeachers and Parents met in Sandwich, MA, after a science teacher gave a lesson to fifth graders showing them pictures of the lung, brain, tissue, heart, and spleen. He also showed them pictures of the female's egg and a fertilized embryo.
The Price of One Anonymous Comment? Your JobMost of us have blogs, right? How do you react to anonymous vulgar comments? Hit SPAM, right? Yeah, me too. And so did the Director of Social Media for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Kurt Greenbaum. The first time.
To Create Jobs Today We Must Focus On Creating A New Energy Grid!By focusing on solutions we have available today, and utilizing resources we readily have available in America such as Natural Gas, we will reduce our unemployment rate of 10.2%.
South Park's Eric Cartman skewers Glenn BeckUsing his new video system, Cartman spells out the true nature of Wendy's intentions.
Principal Retires After Cash-For-Grades BlunderGOLDSBORO, N.C. -- A North Carolina principal has decided to retire after school district leaders halted the cash-for-grades fundraiser she approved.
My daughter had a dental appointment this past Tuesday. She had to get a couple of fillings, so I kept her out all day. I called the school and let them know that she wouldn't be there; unfortunately, I forgot to send a note with her when she went back.
When I was growing up, the myriad of disorders that our children are said to suffer from (now diagnosed and treated) were, in many instances, ignored and/or dealt with in a much less medical fashion.
25 Chicago Students Arrested for a Middle-School Food FightThe food fight here started the way such bouts do in school lunchrooms most anywhere: an apple was tossed, a cookie turned into a torpedo, and an orange plunked someone in the head.
The Cambridge primary review's key findingsThere is a "pervasive anxiety" about the pressure on pupils at school and from the commercial world, but these concerns are often overstated and mask the fact that poverty is the single biggest threat to children's lives, the Cambridge review has found.
Michigan farm expert opens Marijuana U. SOUTHFIELD, Mich. | Nearly a year after voters in this economically disadvantaged state overwhelmingly passed a ballot initiative approving the consumption of medicinal marijuana, a new trade school has opened its doors to educate aspiring growers.
NC school sells test points for $20 to raise moneyGOLDSBORO, N.C. – A middle school in North Carolina is selling test scores to students in a bid to raise money.
Principal threatens suspension of students saying "meep."DANVERS — It's no surprise that using bad language in school can get you into hot water. But "meep"? Danvers High parents recently got an automated call from the principal warning them that if students say or display the word "meep" at school, they could face suspension.
4th-Grader Says Teen Raped Her On CPS BusCINCINNATI -- An elementary school student said she was sexually assaulted last week on a Cincinnati Public Schools bus. Three separate investigations are under way by the school district, First Student transportation service and Cincinnati police.
Schoolgirl suspended for cancer head shaveThe mother of a 15-year-old girl suspended from school for shaving her head to raise money for cancer charities says her leukemia-stricken husband is proud of her actions.
No Gay Rights. No pledge to the flagThere's a 10-year-old lad, a fifth-grader at West Fork Elementary, who decided he wasn't going to say the Pledge of Allegiance at school anymore because there was no liberty or justice for all in America, as the pledge's rote recitation asserts.
Mount Alvernia College bans girl for shaving head, raising cancer awarenessA 15-YEAR-old Brisbane school girl has been suspended for shaving her head to raise money for vital cancer research.
Catholic school Girl suspended for shaving head A 15-YEAR-old Brisbane schoolgirl was suspended for shaving her head to raise money for vital cancer research, The Courier-Mail reports. Emily Pridham and her family told Channel Nine News her father is battling leukemia. He underwent a bone marrow transplant a few weeks ago bu …
Fred Phelps' Church Protesting Outside Sasha and Malia Obama's SchoolMembers of Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church, who think 9/11 was punishment for America's tolerance of homosexuality and express their views on that issue by protesting the funerals of dead soldiers, were seen demonstrating outside of the school attended by the Obama girls.
Can a Boy Wear a Dress to School?If the skirt is an acceptable length, can a boy wear it? Can a girl attend her prom in a tuxedo? In recent years, a growing number of teenagers have been dressing to articulate — or confound — gender identity and sexual orientation.
Teacher arrested on his first day on the jobDamian Brown, 26, was taken into custody by East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff's deputies and charged with identity theft after officials at Scotlandville Elementary say he put three different social security numbers on his applications.
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