Education Etc. News

SEATTLE Gov. Chris Gregoire said Thursday she opposes state schools chief Randy Dorn's proposal to delay the requirement for students to pass math and science tests to graduate, because the state's economy depends on Washington students leaving high school well trained in both subjects.

The bus was carrying 40 Lee High School students to a technology center on Nov. 20, 2006 when it collided with a car driven by a student who was also headed to the center.

Five Houston-area school districts have filed suit against the state education commissioner over his interpretation of a new law prohibiting minimum grading policies.

A former high school principal faces just nine months more in jail after being sentenced today for having sex with a 16-year-old student in 2007.

The American Civil Liberties Union has asked an Ohio school to stop punishing a student who refused to stand and recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its final report on the Lee High School bus crash, almost three years after the fatal wreck.

School board members in one New Jersey town want parents of high school students who are habitually sent to detention to pay.

With budget problems mounting for many Texas school districts, the next governor is likely to inherit a funding system that experts say has become a legal and financial quagmire.

THE GLARING MONEY PROBLEM FOR LAS VEGAS CITY SCHOOLS IS NO SURPRISE -- LEGAL COSTS.

Two middle school students are being treated for burns received when a flash fire broke out during a science experiment.

An attorney for Jim Wacker filed the lawsuit in Latah County earlier this month.

The "Twilight" series may have changed the lives of fans worldwide, but perhaps no one has been more affected by its success than the three stars of the film: Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner.

Ohio schools would become a key battleground in the fight against childhood obesity, under legislation introduced in both the state House and Senate.

No sooner does Treasurer John Kennedy get a good argument started over wasteful public spending than he begins stirring another pot.

A high school teacher in Yakima who is accused of having sex with a 16-year-old boy is appealing her firing.

South Carolina education officials are recognizing 19 groups and people who volunteer in public schools.

A New Jersey high school student claims in a federal lawsuit that school administrators violated her First Amendment free-speech and religious-freedom rights when they said she couldn't participate in a day of silent protest against abortion.

A southwestern Illinois school district is closed for a second day after vandals left messages threatening to blow up some of the buildings.

An Olympic gold medalist and an NFL veteran have joined those urging an Ohio school board to keep requiring all high school students to take gym class.

Indiana hopes to win $250 million or more in competitive federal stimulus grants for schools -- money the state superintendent says it deserves because of recent changes lawmakers made to education policies.