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Unlike New York, where there are a variety of types of schools, Tokyo mandates all schools be the same, including private schools, but the problem with a one-size-fits-all education system is that not everybody fits.

The fate of Horizon Charter School and its 2,700 students is in the hands of Western Placer Unified's school board after allegations of fiscal mismanagement and complaints from parents.

A Superior Court judge ruled Monday the state education tax credit program enacted by last year's conservative Legislature is unconstitutional because, the judge said, it diverts tax payments to religious schools.

"It's not the length of life, but the depth of life," essayist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson was fond of saying.

Andrew Malcom brings us a useful topic of discussion for the weekend, coming in the form of Senator Lamar Alexander delivering the GOP's weekly remarks .

In this weekend's " The Bling Ring ," audiences will get reacquainted with Alexis Neiers and Tess Taylor, the half-sisters who inspired Emma Watson's Nikki and Taissa Farmiga's Sam respectively in the the Sofia Coppola film .

This letter is to alert parents that the Common Core standards are coming into you schools.

The east coast, fiddle-playing, sensation will be teaching, for the eighth year in a row, at the Leahy Music Camp.

Photo for The Union by John Hart Bruce Kinseth is retiring vice principal of Nevada Union High School.

Fifty-nine percent opposed the program; 10 percent were undecided. Here are some of the comments we received on our website and our Facebook page: It's easy to approve when it's not your money.

Over a three-year period in 2010, 2011 and 2012, Lions Gate emergency room visits for depression, suicidal thoughts and self-harm have more than doubled for teens.

"With the passing of the "historic educational reform bill," Republicans have proved once again that they "are only for the rich."

The City of Newberry proudly announces the availability of a "Newberry-PMPA Community Scholar" Scholarship, given to member cities belonging to the Piedmont Municipal Power Agency .

Southern Tier TEA Party Patriots held its monthly meeting May 28 at the Lakewood American Legion, 174 Chautauqua St., Lakewood.

Education Ministry to give haredi education system four months to reach agreement with State regarding core curriculum - or it will be forced upon them.

Lubbock artist Virginia Griffing Jones, who was born May 4, 1926, in Dallas, passed away Saturday, June 8, in Lubbock.

There was a time when property taxes, funds from state, local and federal agency took a back seat to the public's school choice.

Paris Jackson's shocking suicide attempt will probably lead to a change in school due to the bullying she receives.

SCOTTISH Conservative leader Ruth Davidson yesterday backed a massive shake-up in Scotland's education system, saying parents should be able to pick and choose where to send their children in order to weed out "failing" schools.

But that's not the philosophy of the most philosophical second grader in America, Jack Smalley, age 7, of Mantua in Gloucester County.