Education Etc. News

Their situation - frustration that can't be resolved by any of the official channels within Portland Public Schools - is a recurring theme at several district schools.

A Vancouver School Board survey has found the high cost of housing is the major reason parents are pulling their kids out of the city's schools.

The bodies found Wednesday have not been identified but a school district spokesman said one of the victims was a school custodian.

Soldiers fighting to halt an insurgency by Islamic militants are banning the use of Thuraya satellite telephones by civilians in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state, throttling communications already made difficult by cut cell phone service.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced his support for one of the most divisive football teams in the country-and it's not one of the two teams that play in his state.

House Republicans moved forward Wednesday with a rewrite of GOP President George W. Bush's prized No Child Left Behind Act, pushing a bill that would strip Education Secretary Arne Duncan and his successors of power and give more authority to the states.

A review of the nation's teacher-training programs released Tuesday suggests that many University of Wisconsin System education schools are of middling quality.

County school superintendents told the state Board of Education on Tuesday that a recent legislative bill allowing high school students to take as many advanced placement courses as they can handle will cost districts millions of dollars that their budgets can't support.

A central Wisconsin high school district is partnering with a Chinese school to teach the Chinese students a U.S. curriculum.

Teachers are not coming out of the nation's colleges of education ready, according to a study released Tuesday by U.S.News & World Report and the National Council on Teacher Quality.

The angst surrounding two seven-year-old students who were suspended for pointing pencils at one another and making gun sounds has led the Suffolk School Board in Suffolk, Va., to rethink its zero tolerance policy on firearms and weapons.

SHERWOOD, Ore. A Sherwood High School teacher was arrested Monday accused of sexually abusing at least two students, according to the Washington County Sheriff's Office.

The Wake County Board of Education on Tuesday is expected to approve the contract for the system's new school superintendent.

A former teacher in Pennsylvania is facing charges after police say she allowed students to do body piercing in class.

The nation's teacher-training programs do not adequately prepare would-be educators for the classroom, even as they produce almost triple the number of graduates needed, according to a survey of more than 1,000 programs released Tuesday.

We're a little hard to find, but worth it. Once you walk in, it's an oasis of bathing suits in sizes... James Habel home raid: Authorities searched the Point Pleasant home of former Wall superintendent James Habel in 2012.

The Oregon Senate voted down a $6.55 billion budget for primary and secondary schools on Monday after one Democrat and all 14 Republicans said it didn't provide enough money.

A veteran Los Angeles Unified School District educator who allegedly stabbed his estranged wife to death Saturday outside a West Hills home of friends where she had taken refuge was taken into custody shortly after midnight in the San Bernardino area, police said Monday morning.

Gov. Bob McDonnell said Monday that the Criminal Justice Services Board approved the matching grants.

In a letter to Jackson Memorial High School students today, Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato told students he was incorrect when he described a crash that killed two Jackson sisters last October.