Education Etc. News

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.

While most high school students roll up to their senior prom in a nice car or, even better, a chauffeured limousine, Dustin Sanner made his grand entrance at the Yough High School prom in a fire engine.

This message was sent in an all-district communication blast, sent at 2:06 PM on Monday May 13th by Seattle Public School Superintendent Jose Banda, and led to spontaneous end of the day celebrations of teachers and students around Garfield High School.

The state's largest school district has laid off 41 teachers, its highest number of teacher layoffs in more than a decade.

Only a small handful of people turned out for a public hearing on the proposed Cobb County School District fiscal year 2014 budget Tuesday.

Gov. Jerry Brown's latest budget proposes a $17 billion infusion for California's K-12 schools over the next four years, a dramatic turn-around after years of teacher layoffs and program cuts that were common during the recession.

The state Superintendent has signed off on plans that would allow students to return to their classrooms in the Buena Vista school district.

Legislation that would help Illinois public school districts merge to save money is headed for Gov.

Students at Centaurus High School wait outside after being evacuated Monday, May 13, 2013, due to a suspicious device that was found inside.

Six current and former San Francisco school district employees were charged Tuesday with embezzling about $15 million in grant money from the district, officials said.