Education Etc. News

The Hazelwood School District PTA Council awarded $50,000 in scholarships to 100 seniors representing Hazelwood West, East and Central high schools this week.

President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr.

The birth of the Monomoy Regional High School is tangible now. The foundation is poured, the girders will be arriving soon and the track and synthetic-surface multipurpose field are taking shape.

Barking dogs rushed through the gates to splash in the newly filled swimming pools with waterfalls on "Swim Park Grand Re-Opening Day" May 10 at one of Middletown's most bucolic dog kennels, located on a horse farm in Chapel Hill.

For the first time, the Cobb County School District is partnering with the Cobb County Public Library System to create a "unified" summer reading experience for students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

El Paso police used a bomb squad to investigate the home of a high school teacher arrested on charges he had an improper relationship with a student.

To help buy retired Milton teacher Jim Rotar a device to help him communicate, make checks payable to Milton Middle School with Jim Rotar in the memo line.

Where/when: Tamenend Park , 1255 Second Street Pike, Upper Southampton, Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for the art show; 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the flea market; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for the herb sale.

A YMCA camp in western Wisconsin has been cleaned after more than 50 children from a Minnesota school district were sickened with norovirus.

Teachers this week said morale in the classroom is at an "all-time low" as school staff stare down the barrel of another round of potential cuts in take-home pay the board is considering through a series of insurance changes.

AS THOUSANDS of students, parents and teachers marched down North Broad Street to City Hall yesterday calling for more school funding, a City Council committee approved an alternative plan to raise money for the cash-strapped school district.

A transgender student asked the Red Lion School Board Thursday night why he can't use the name he wants to be called, instead of his legal one, at graduation.

A local police chief and a school principal have their dog to thank for alerting them to a fire that destroyed their home and much of what they own.

A former superintendent of the financially troubled Pontiac School District who alleged he was fired for exposing fraud and misuse of school funds has agreed to a $100,000 settlement to drop his whistle-blower lawsuit.

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. Two Montgomery Central High School students were injured in a head-on DUI crash near their school on Thursday.

Dozens of students, parents and staff from a Dubuque high school are unsure what to do after a Cedar Rapids travel agency closed without making arrangements for a planned trip to New York despite about $30,000 in advance payments.

A Michigan school district has barred two pregnant students from showing their baby bumps in the high school yearbook - a decision made to keep with the state's abstinence-based approach to sex education, according to the superintendent.

The West Linn-Wilsonville Education Foundation is in the middle of its annual fundraising effort - the COUNT campaign - to raise money for classroom teaching positions.

Flights in Greece were halted for four hours Thursday as the country's two largest labour unions staged work stoppages to protest austerity measures and a government decision to cancel a teachers' strike.

Gov. Bill Haslam has signed a bill that allows school districts to let people with police training be armed in schools.