Education News

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The cell phone containing videos of abuse at a Texas facility for the mentally disabled was found in a clothing store and offered to two television stations before being taken to an off-duty police officer, the man who found the phone testified Monday.

TAMPA, Fla. - In a Tampa middle school locker room, prosecutors say four flag football players held down a younger teammate and committed a horrifying assault: Raping him with a hockey stick and a broom handle.

PHILADELPHIA - For students at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School, there IS such a thing as a free lunch — and a free breakfast, too. With no strings attached.

NEW YORK - Moneeb Hassan remembers having to choose between a final exam in American history or celebrating the Muslim holy day of Eid al-Adha. In the end, he chose both.

WASHINGTON - Education Secretary Arne Duncan challenged members of the National Education Association Thursday to stop resisting the idea of linking teacher pay to student achievement.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation renewed its commitment to improving college graduation rates for low-income and minority students by giving $16.5 million in grant money to expand remedial education programs at the community-college level.

As California grapples with a massive $24 billion budget deficit, a public school district finds itself served with a bill totaling almost $15,000 related to a lawsuit over a diversity presentation it allowed to take place in March, reports the Hayward Daily Review.

SEOUL (Reuters) - For a teacher who never sees his students and instructs only online, South Korean Woo Hyeong-cheol makes a lot of money, $4 million a year to be exact.

LOS ANGELES - A high school that was the location for a racy photo shoot by Sacha Baron Cohen's character "Bruno" has broken away from the nation's second-largest school district.

WASHINGTON - Education Secretary Arne Duncan is releasing $2.7 billion in stimulus dollars earlier than planned to help states confront increasingly tighter budgets.

Today could be a day of liberation for millions of college graduates who are struggling with college loan payments. Thanks to the federal government's new Income Based Repayment Plan, which takes effect today, many debtors can cut their payments on their federal student loans to less than 15 percent of their incomes.

HADDONFIELD, N.J. - The school districts in such New Jersey hamlets as Hi-Nella (population 1,029), Teterboro (population 18) and Victory Gardens (population 1,546) will be history by the time schools open in fall 2010 under a bill signed by the governor Tuesday.

Sacha Baron Cohen made headlines and millions of dollars following the release of Borat, but the Los Angeles Unified School District is taking issue with his latest character's handling of an L.A. high school football team.

The right-wing Family Research Council is so outraged by the appointment of former Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network president Kevin Jennings to the Department of Education, the group has launched a campaign to get him booted from his post as assistant deputy secretary heading the department's Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools..

NEW YORK - Repaying a student loan could soon be a little less painful.

PROVO, Utah - Brigham Young University, the Mormon church school where students agree to live a chaste and virtuous life, has lifted its almost three-year policy of blocking access to YouTube.

CAMDEN, N.J. - Angelo Drummond wears a pressed white shirt and a red power tie for his two-hour presentation to his harshest critics — a panel of fellow students at Camden's MetEast High School.

Acer on Friday released a trio of new models and a new monitor aimed at the home and school user.