AP - Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush-with-cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools.
Reuters - In search of Mr. or Mrs. Right, dozens of Japanese are attending a newly launched school in Tokyo that aims turn them into marriage material.
AP - Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks and taking the same tests, replacing a patchwork of state and local systems in an attempt to raise student achievement nationwide.
The Christian Science Monitor - The public got its first look Wednesday at the English and math academic standards that may eventually be the new norm for America’s K-12 schools – an important step in the Obama administration’s effort to raise expectations for what students should learn and to shift schools toward the goal of “college and career readiness.”
AP - A former employee of Texas state facility for the developmentally disabled accused of sanctioning fights among residents has pleaded guilty midway through his Corpus Christi trial.
AP - Computer networking systems maker 3Com Corp. said Wednesday that it received a three-year contract with the Department of Education and Training in Australia's Northern Territory to supply schools.
AP - Governors and state education leaders are proposing a new set of standards to define what should be taught in the nation's public schools, The Washington Post reported Wednesday.
AP - Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide.
AP - The West Virginia Department of Education has awarded a contract to a Texas company to improve its food service operations at schools across the state.
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AP - Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush-with-cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools.
AP - Governors and education leaders on Wednesday proposed sweeping new school standards that could lead to students across the country using the same math and English textbooks and taking the same tests, replacing a patchwork of state and local systems in an attempt to raise student achievement nationwide.
AP - Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide.
AP - A police officer in Brooklyn has fatally shot a man who the NYPD says was brandishing a fake pistol near a school.
