Education Etc. News

This week Ross and Pickaway Counties will begin their free H1N1 vaccinations. Sunday, November 8, 2009 The Ross County Health District is beginning their free school-based H1N1 vaccination clinics this week.

PORTLAND - The math isn't so hard when it comes to the faculty of the Tigard-Tualatin school district.

On Oct. 31, Orlando Ramos was in Richmond, comforting community members he met when he was principal of the high school there, the same campus that's now notorious for the Oct.

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is counting on hundreds of high school students showing up for its 20th annual Math Day.

ST. PAUL- A Minnesota soldier and father of three who had a knack for making people laugh was among those killed at Fort Hood, Texas.

The flu season is keeping substitute teachers busy this year. The Yankton school district has been building a larger-than-normal pool of substitute teacher candidates, as students aren't the only ones being kept from classes because of the H1N1 and seasonal flu viruses.

Superintendent Jack Copps says he sent an automated telephone call to parents of 15,000 students on Friday to let them know.

With the distribution pace of the swine flu vaccine progressing from a crawl to a shuffle, officials are urging patience as supplies slowly reach the Berkshires and the H1N1 strain continues to sicken people statewide.

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.