Posts in category Education

By LORI POTTER Kearney Hub KEARNEY, Neb. (AP) _ When participants in the Youth Engaged in Leading Phelps program were challenged to identify and pursue …

By KASEY JONES BALTIMORE (AP) _ A senior at Washington College has been awarded a $62,900 literary prize. Alexander Vidiani, who grew up in Hunt …

PHOENIX (AP) _ Surprise Police have arrested a local teen for calling and emailing a fake bomb threat and home invasion in February. Police say …

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) _ About 15 percent of Oklahoma third graders could be held back after earning unsatisfactory marks on a state-mandated reading test. State …

EVANSVILLE, Ind. (AP) _ The University of Evansville campus will become smoke-free starting Aug. 1. The Evansville Courier and Press reports (http://bit.ly/1ECb0W1 ) that the …

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) _ A state appellate court has ruled that Tucson Unified School District has legal immunity from a lawsuit accusing it of negligently …

GRANVILLE, Ohio (AP) _ Workers cleaning out a Denison University dorm in central Ohio found a more than the usual assortment of notebooks and pencils …

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) _ Bill Cosby will visit Alabama for a two-day event aimed at highlighting schools in one of the poorest areas of the …

ORANGE, N.J. (AP) _ A New Jersey school district has fired a teacher whose third-grade class wrote get-well letters to a sick prison inmate convicted …

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) _ The University of Vermont Board of Trustees plans to discuss a proposed 3.4 percent tuition increase for the 2016 academic year …