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John Tokarski III maintained a 4.4 GPA in Pittsburgh's Schenley High School, played three sports and took on leadership roles.

Grief counseling will be available to students and staff from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Truman High School in Taylor following the death of several teens in a train and car collision on Thursday afternoon.

Seventeen Detroit public high schools are being turned over to four professional educational management companies as part of what school district officials are calling the most dramatic restructuring of the troubled district's history.

Testing of steroids in High School students yielded eight guilty parties.

A federal appeals panel has upheld a four-year prison sentence for a drug and weapons conviction of Mitchell Johnson, one of two Jonesboro Westside Middle School students who killed four students and a teacher in a 1998 massacre.

Gov. Perry Names Lowe Chair of Texas State Board of Education 7/10/09 Office of the Governor News Release July 10, 2009 Austin, Texas - Gov.

We're now hearing for the first time from a former high school principal, forced from his job due to improper use of a school credit card.

Who has the toughest job in the Rochester City School District? Superintendent Jean-Claude Brizard said it's the principals at the district's nearly 60 schools.

A new generation of high-school graduation competency tests would be phased in starting next year under a plan unveiled Thursday by the chairman of the Pennsylvania Board of Education - the state's latest attempt to navigate a political minefield of opposition to new testing requirements.

Lee County is among 108 school districts nationwide that will split $26 million in federal grant money.

The Grossmont Union High School District board was expected to consider Thursday night taking the first step toward revoking Helix High School's 11-year-old charter because of how the school handled a recent series of teacher sex crimes, it was reported Thursday.

Aid to school districts will drop $163 million during the current fiscal year. Districts are losing $215 in base state aid per student, a decline of 4.8 percent.

COLUMBUS, Ohio - President Barack Obama's $787 billion economic stimulus package will help put 14,200 teens and young adults to work this summer in Ohio, and most of the stimulus-funded highway projects in the state are reaching economically distressed areas, according to a federal report released Wednesday.

13 middle school students from 3 Hampton schools are taking part in the two-week course at Hampton University.

A group of lifeguards from Destin have been named the best in the state. A group of six lifeguards won the 16th Annual Jacksonville Beach Lifeguard Challenge almost two weeks ago.

Astronaut Robert Thirsk spins in zero gravity as high school students look on after he was granted an honorary degree by the University of Calgary via video link from the International Space Station.

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The Justice Department wants to join a lawsuit filed on behalf of three eastern Pennsylvania boys who say they were raped as first graders.

Originally published July 8, 2009 at 3:23 a.m., updated July 8, 2009 at 4:25 a.m. NEW ORLEANS a ' A student who claims he was threatened with suspension for wearing a T-shirt supporting John Edwards' presidential campaign is asking a federal appeals court to bar a Texas school district from enforcing its dress code.

Health class will no longer be a state requirement for high school students this fall, making Texas one of the few states in the country with no required health education, officials said.