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Residents and students in the Dover, Arkansas area now have two more safe havens in the case of severe weather. 

The family of a boy who drowned during swim class has filed a $15 million claim against the Wenatchee (Wash.) School District. 

Governor John Kitzhaber says he'll hire an education czar to oversee all education in Oregon.

The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) launched a new website last week designed to provide educators, parents and the public with an intuitive, easy-to-navigate tool to learn about Minnesota public schools.

With schools facing what must feel like ever-shrinking budgets — the 2011 Kansas Legislature most recently slashed $100 million in state spending on K-12 education — and the ever-present reality of layoffs, paraprofessionals are showing their value.

A high school in upstate New York has suspended some students after the suicide of a bullied gay teenager.

The debate over renewing No Child Left Behind, the education reform act that will be 10 years old in January, has fallen along partisan lines even though school improvement is one of the few examples of bipartisan cooperation over the last decade.

The District has won a significant battle in its 16-year war to lift a federal court injunction for failing to make tuition payments for special education students.

Has education flat-lined in Iowa? Governor Terry Branstad says a recent survey suggests so.

When New Jersey applied to the federal government for a waiver from the No Child Left Behind law, Gov. Chris Christie used the opportunity to tout elements of his education reform agenda that had been languishing in the state legislature for months.