The NC Education Lottery is helpful, to a degree. It contributed nearly $11 million to pay off Mecklenburg County's school construction debt last year—money the county wouldn't have otherwise had.

Educators, philanthropists, and all kinds of advocates have been trying to reinvent high school for decades, with little success. Now, the Carnegie Foundation and Educational Testing Service (ETS) have launched an effort to kick things up a notch.

Negotiations between Portland Public Schools and Portland Association of Teachers continued Saturday and Sunday, but the two sides had not reached an agreement by Sunday evening.

A nationwide shortage of half-pint milk cartons is hitting schools in several states, leaving them brainstorming other ways to serve the drink to their students.