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Ascension Parish hiring 50 new teachers

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:40:17 -0400

GONZALES, Louisiana - Ascension Parish is looking to hire 50 new teachers.

Center Grove students put best inventions forward

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:26:13 -0400

GREENWOOD, Indiana - A class of Center Grove students has spent the school year tinkering with smartphones, power adapters and basketballs while trying to invent products.

Center Grove students put best inventions forward

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:25:31 -0400

GREENWOOD, Indiana - Central Indiana high school students are putting their best ideas forward as they develop inventions and market them to local businesses.

Report: Nation's kids need to get more physical

Thu, 23 May 2013 11:21:22 -0400

WASHINGTON - Reading, writing, arithmetic - and PE?

Hattiesburg may cut 20 teaching positions

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:55:40 -0400

HATTIESBURG, Mississippi - Hattiesburg Public School District Superintendent James Bacchus is proposing to eliminate the majority of a $1.8 million budget shortfall by cutting 20 teacher positions.

Imprisoned Ohio Amish may skip high school classes

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:55:11 -0400

CLEVELAND - Amish imprisoned in beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio have been granted a religious freedom exemption from a requirement to attend high school equivalency classes behind bars.

Md. students see their films on the big screen

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:37:35 -0400

SILVER SPRING, Maryland - Downtown Silver Spring isn't exactly Hollywood, but for Montgomery County middle school students, it was transformed into a scene as thrilling as any L.A. movie premiere Wednesday.

Cent. Pa. students try to hopscotch to record

Thu, 23 May 2013 10:28:04 -0400

WILLIAMSPORT, Pennsylvania - Students at a central Pennsylvania elementary school slated to close hope they can hopscotch their way into the Guinness Book of World Records before the school's doors are shut for good.

Pawtucket school closed after ceiling collapse

Thu, 23 May 2013 09:13:13 -0400

PAWTUCKET, Rhode Island - A Pawtucket elementary school is closed for the rest of the week after a portion of the ceiling collapsed in a basement classroom.

Ex-Mass. lawmaker facing meth trafficking charges

Thu, 23 May 2013 07:44:42 -0400

BOSTON - A former Massachusetts lawmaker who more recently worked as a tutor at a Boston charter school has been held on $10,000 bail after pleading not guilty to drug charges.

Lamar County students will not get laptops

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:56:14 -0400

PURVIS, Mississippi - Lamar County School District high school students will not be getting personal laptops in the coming school year as Superintendent Ben Burnett had hoped. Officials say the district does not have the $500,000 necessary to equip each student with one.

32 new charter schools plan to open in Michigan

Thu, 23 May 2013 05:32:05 -0400

LANSING, Michigan - Officials say 32 new charter schools plan to open this fall in Michigan.

Senate to have say on Common Core standards

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:34:21 -0400

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana - A tea party-backed attempt to keep Louisiana from using a set of uniform national standards for public school testing will be considered by the state Senate.

Texas Senate OKs expanding virtual course network

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:34:06 -0400

AUSTIN, Texas - 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.

Iowa education director quits for Colorado job

Wed, 22 May 2013 22:25:15 -0400

DES MOINES, Iowa - As the state Legislature was nearing approval of significant changes to Iowa's public school system, the Iowa Department of Education director accepted a job Wednesday as superintendent of a Colorado school district.

Education board to consider waivers for Moore

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:10:03 -0400

OKLAHOMA CITY - The Oklahoma State Board of Education is expected to consider waivers for public schools in the tornado-ravaged community of Moore.

LAUSD to pay $1.4M for sex abuse between students

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:05:37 -0400

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Unified School District officials were ordered Wednesday to pay a special needs fourth-grader $1.4 million after she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a male classmate in Chatsworth.

Federal judge dismisses charter school suit

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:28:27 -0400

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit against the Metro Nashville Board of Education by a charter school that was ordered to close because of poor student performance.

SC Senate defeats private school choice proposal

Wed, 22 May 2013 19:00:07 -0400

COLUMBIA, South Carolina - South Carolina senators have defeated an attempt to help parents pay for private school tuition or educate them at home through the state budget.

Illinois Senate approves sex education bill

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:54:35 -0400

SPRINGFIELD, Illinois - Illinois public schools that teach sex education will have to include information about contraception and sexually transmitted diseases instead of a curriculum focused solely on abstinence, according to a plan that cleared the state Senate on Wednesday.

Chicago Board of Ed votes to close 50 schools

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:23:35 -0400

CHICAGO - 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.

Test results up overall; voucher schools flat

Wed, 22 May 2013 18:17:27 -0400

NEW ORLEANS - A state Education Department analysis of the latest standardized test results for public school students in grades three through eight shows the state continues to make incremental overall improvement with a long way to go.

Fort Wayne schools want 3rd party to review ISTEP

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:52:02 -0400

FORT WAYNE, Indiana - Indiana's largest school district says it won't accept results of this year's standardized testing until an independent third party validates the scores.

2 children bitten by fox at Ga. elementary school

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:17:51 -0400

COVINGTON, Georgia - Two elementary school students in Newton County were bitten by a fox while they were on a playground Wednesday morning, animal control officials said.

Ala. school board votes to lease laptops

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:48:40 -0400

OXFORD, Alabama - The Oxford school board has voted to lease Apple Macbook Air laptops for middle and high school students.