Education Etc. News

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.

The Nobel laureate is scheduled to speak to middle and high school students Tuesday morning at the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville.

Nothing will ever prepare people for the aftermath of a tornado, more than ever, if it is the lives of the children it took Volunteers were speechless as they grope for words to explain the heartbreaking scenes they dug up at the elementary school.

Children at a storytelling workshop wear what they imagine would be the expression on their characters' faces during the most exciting moment of their story, for a picture being taken by Ann Shapiro, director of the Connecticut Storytelling Center at Connecticut College.

Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning drama, Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley, is coming to City Theatre May 31-June 6. ST.

Four Waverly Elementary School parents have filed uniform complaints with the California Department of Education against Linden Unified School District.

Gov. Rick Scott today signed a bill requiring Florida school districts to start paying for the classes that teenagers take at local colleges through their high schools' dual-enrollment programs.

Students who will be juniors and seniors when Arthur-Lovington and Atwood-Hammond merge in coming years sit outside Arthur-Lovington High School on Thursday.

Seventh-grade sports teams, education technician jobs and several maintenance projects fell victim to cuts in next year's budget for Regional School Unit 38.

As the school year comes to a close, Gwinnett County Public Schools officials are taking the time to commend the district's arts programs and the students who bring them to life.

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.