Education Etc. News

A Baltimore public schools official says a mother and two high school students were in an altercation with a school police officer.

California took a pounding Monday from a powerful storm that collapsed the roof of a trade school, made roads treacherous and forced residents from homes out of fear of mudslides from fire-stripped hillsides.

Interstate 15, the main route connecting Southern California and Las Vegas, was closed by heavy snow in a mountain pass east of Los Angeles. Interstate 5 north of Los Angeles was snarled by snow that forced the California Highway Patrol to shepherd motorists over another pass.

About 20,000 customers lost power across the state, utilities reported.

President-elect Barack Obama has chosen Chicago schools chief Arne Duncan to serve as education secretary, according to sources with knowledge of the decision.

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CLOSINGS AND DELAYS AURORA - Students in multiple school districts may have some difficulty getting to school Monday morning as chilly temperatures linger.

A study in the Dec. 15 issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine shows that after a one-hour delay of school start times, teens increased their average nightly hours of sleep and decreased their "catch-up ...

Lead story The Christmas Nativity scenes in northeast Spain's Catalonia region have, for three centuries, featured not only Mary and the Three Wise Men but the ubiquitous "caganer" icon, always portrayed with ...

In just a week, most students across the state will be on winter break. When they return, Clinton Elementary students should have to wait just two weeks before roof repairs wrap up at their school.

Sen. Richard Lugar says it's too early to tell whether the economic downturn will reach a level approaching that of the Great Depression.

The New Jersey Legislature wraps up for the year on Monday, but not before voting on scores of bills including whether to scale back a popular college scholarship program, limit unused sick time retiring school ...

It sounds like a student's dream school - no teachers, no homework, no weekly tests, no grades.

School and law enforcement officials say the robbery of an armored truck on Friday prompted a lockdown of a middle and high school Friday afternoon.

Clark County School Board members acknowledged that students will feel the effects of $120 million in budget cuts being projected for the 2009-10 school year in the nation's fifth-largest district.

State education officials are looking into an allegation that a Butte school administrator improperly destroyed student records following an employee's complaint, Superintendent Chuck Uggetti confirmed Friday.

Family and friends are mourning the deaths of two well-liked high school students who were killed in a car crash.

AP - A $1 million age-discrimination lawsuit involving Prince William County Schools Superintendent Steven Walts has been settled in federal court.

Pennsylvania's public school pension fund says school districts should try to start saving for an expected increase in costs starting in 2012.

Students at a South Florida middle school said two boys and a girl were involved in sexual conduct during class.

The principal of the Ansonia's alternative education program has been placed on paid leave as authorities investigate allegations of strip searches.

The American Civil Liberties Union is challenging a Northern California school district's drug testing policy.