Education Etc. News

A Hispanic chamber of commerce has published a book it hopes will help students better understand Hispanic and other immigrant groups and curb anti-immigrant sentiment in the Cincinnati area.

Georgia is kicking off its ``Apply to College Week'' where high school students statewide will get help with applications and finding financial aid.

First a theater coordinator, now a special education aide: Another Waterford School District employee is accused of having sex with a student on campus.

A central Pennsylvania school district says a bus driver has been fired after a 6-year-old autistic boy was left on a bus.

A Wisconsin mother says her 29-year-old daughter is among the soldiers killed in the Fort Hood, Texas shootings.

The Michigan House voted Thursday to tap federal stimulus money set aside for next year to soften a cut in school funding now, but it's unlikely the move is going to win the support of the state Senate.

A program called Safe Schools/Healthy Students greatly increases the safety of students, says a U.S. government report.

A group of economists and policy-makers slashed Kansas tax collection estimates Thursday by $235 million, reflecting signs of continued weakness in the state economy.

Indiana's schools chief is warning local school superintendents that cuts to education funding are possible because of the state's fiscal woes.

A three-alarm fire is burning Whatcom Middle School in Bellingham. The fire was reported at 1 a.m. Thursday, and Fire Chief Bill Boyd told The Bellingham Herald it had burned through most of the roof within 15 minutes.

A spokeswoman for the Toledo school district says a school bus apparently hit a student while the youth was crossing an intersection.

BATON ROUGE - School superintendents across Louisiana want to know the details of what they stand to gain or lose in participating in the federal "Race to the Top' program that's aimed at improving weak schools.

A Mid-South physician got up close and personal with the H1N1 swine flu virus. At least he pretended to.

Commuters biked, walked, juggled carpool schedules and hitched rides as the city's transit system ground to a near halt for a second day Wednesday, a rush worsened when a regional rail train caught fire.

A school district in Pennsylvania had to toss 5,000 doses of Swine Flu vaccine. The Stroudsburg Area School District was holding the doses for clinics later this week.

Administrators in one Ohio school district will now have to answer to a high school senior elected to the school board.

School Zone is a weekly column written by the Washoe County School District trustees and administrators about key issues and noteworthy news for parents, teachers and students.

She's accused of having sex with a 16 year old student. Now Michelle Taylor will lose her job.

Police a student caused a minor fire in a Pittsburgh public school by trying to use an aerosol can as a "blow torch" of sorts.

Officials at a high school where a student was gang-raped in a courtyard are moving to tighten campus security with the long-stalled purchase of surveillance cameras, powerful lighting and new fencing.