Education Etc. News

Dozens of college state government interns would be sent home this summer and a long-running teen mock legislative program would be shuttered in the Senate budget approved this week.

The Senate has approved a proposal to expand the state's network of virtual school courses online and allow it to include more private courses.

A third-grade teacher who faces dozens of child molestation charges for allegedly kissing and fondling female students has been placed on unpaid leave.

Northern Indiana authorities say about 50 middle and high school students were injured and a bus driver was seriously hurt in a chain-reaction crash involving four school buses.

A school district failed to properly investigate allegations by two students that they were sexually assaulted at their Grand Rapids-area high school, the U.S. Department of Education said.

A House committee taking Congress' latest look at the Internal Revenue Service's mistreatment of tea party groups will apparently have to do so without input from the star witness.

The father of a seven-year-old boy whose mouth was allegedly taped closed by an after-school monitor says school officials in Halifax reacted slowly and incompletely to the incident.

New Holland-Middletown Elementary District 88 received a check for $30,000 from the newly formed community group NH-M Community Supports Education at the regularly scheduled school board meeting on May 15.

The Chicago board of education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs, an ambitious plan that has sparked protests and lawsuits and could help define - for better or worse - Mayor Rahm Emanuel's term in office.

With its single-story design and cinder-block walls, Plaza Towers Elementary School may have seemed sturdy when it was built a couple of generations ago.

Animal control officials said Wednesday that two elementary students in Georgia were bitten by a fox while they were on a school playground.

One driver has been killed and three students injured when a car drifted into oncoming traffic and struck a school bus in East Texas.

In unofficial election results posted Tuesday night, Beaverton School District voters supported a five-year, $15 million local-option levy with 27,510 votes, or nearly 57 percent, to 21,053 votes, or 43 percent, opposing funding Measure 34-204. Approval of the levy means local schools will be able to move forward with the first year of adding ... (more)

Students in the Walled Lake Consolidated School district will have one less day of summer vacation after the district says it was forced to add an additional day of school to make up for the day missed when a large number of district bus drivers called in sick .

With an ominous storm approaching, the Moore Public School District flashed a text alert to parents: "We are currently holding all students until the current storm danger is over.

Few Montgomery County Public Schools students enrolled in high school math courses made high marks on final exams last semester, data released by the school district last week showed.

The state medical examiner's office says 24 people were killed in Moore, including nine children.

Police say third-grade teacher Michael Howey made sure he had extracurricular activities for girls -- specifically arts and crafts -- during recess for a choice group of students who made his "cutiest girl list." Howey, 47, who now faces dozens of charges related to inappropriate behavior with his students, sent the other girls and the boys to the ... (more)

Emergency crews searched the broken remnants of an Oklahoma City suburb Tuesday for survivors of a massive tornado that flattened homes and demolished an elementary school.

Dear Public School Teachers in Georgia: It looks as if you have survived another year of underwhelming support from state legislators, many of whom would kiss a tree toad if so instructed by the anti-public education crowd.