Texas co. gets contract for food service software (AP)
AP - The West Virginia Department of Education has awarded a contract to a Texas company to impro...

Man holding fake gun fatally shot near NYC school (AP)
This photo taken Monday, March 8, 2010 and provided by the New York City Police Department shows a fake handgun on the street near an elementary school in the Brooklyn borough of New York. When police responded to a 911 call reporting a man with a gun near the school, the man pointed the fake gun at the police and was shot and killed by one of the officers. (AP Photo/New York Police Department)AP - A police officer in Brooklyn has fatally shot a man who the NYPD says was brandishing a fake...

Obama administration: more civil rights enforcement in schools (The Christian Science Monitor)
The Christian Science Monitor - Education Secretary Arne Duncan signaled Monday the Obama adminis...

Ed chief: Agency to review equal access at schools (AP)
U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, center, with principal David Sikes and student Kimberly Fletcher, listens to students, teachers and former students about their educational experience as he visits Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Ala., during brief stops at schools in Montgomery and Selma, Ala., Monday, March 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Montgomery Advertiser, David Bundy)AP - Education Secretary Arne Duncan said Monday the federal government will become more vigilant...

Clinton, beverage group: School efforts working (AP)
Former President Bill Clinton speaks during a news conference, Monday, March 8, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)AP - The U.S. beverage industry has largely stopped delivering sugary drinks to schools and has r...

Part of Wash Post unit in routine review by DoE (Reuters)
Reuters - Washington Post Co said in a regulatory filing last week that the Department of Educati...

Duncan won't cancel Montgomery school visit (AP)
Education Secretary Arne Duncan, center, gestures during a news conference at the National Press Club in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010, to announce a national education initiative to boost academic achievement among Hispanic students from kindergarten through high school. From right to left are: Miami Dade College President Eduardo J. Padron, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis, and Duncan. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)AP - U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will meet with students as planned at Montgomery's Robe...

Kansas City wants to close half its public schools (AP)
AP - Kansas City was held up as a national example of bold thinking when it tried to integrate it...

Recent bias incidents at UC campuses (AP)
AP - Recent bias incidents at University of California campuses:

Bias incidents roil University of California (AP)
FILE - This March 4, 2010 file photo shows a man protesting a recent racist party on the campus of University of California-San Diego, during a rally and march on the campus at UCLA in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)AP - Swastikas, nooses, a KKK hood, graffiti, epithets and jeers.

Top home-school texts dismiss Darwin, evolution (AP)
In this photo Friday, Feb. 26, 2010, Thirteen year-old Louisa Perry-Farr, left, works on her science while her ten year old sister Thea Perry-Farr works on her Logic in the dining room of their home in Lexington, Ky. (AP Photo/James Crisp)AP - Home-school mom Susan Mule wishes she hadn't taken a friend's advice and tried a textbook fr...

Debate over school busing in NC county gets uglier (AP)
AP - A racially charged debate over school busing in North Carolina has turned even uglier after ...

Angry US students protest cuts to higher education (AP)
Student protestors march on the University of California at Berkeley campus Thursday, March 4, 2010, in Berkeley, Calif. Demonstrations, marches, teach-ins and walkouts are planned nationwide Thursday in what is being called the 'March 4th National Day of Action for Public Education.' Events are being held at most of California's public colleges and universities to protest budget cuts that have led to canceled classes, faculty furloughs and steep fee hikes. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)AP - Anger over increasing tuition and school budget cuts boiled over as students across the coun...

Boy hurt in Colo. school shooting thanks teacher (AP)
In this photo provided by Jefferson County Sheriff's Office on Thursday Feb. 25, 2010, Bruco Strong Eagle Eastwood is shown. Eastwood is accused of wounding two middle school students at Deer Creek Middle School in Littleton, Colo. on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jefferson County Sheriff's Office)AP - A boy hurt in last month's Colorado school shooting is out of the hospital and praising the ...

Students, teachers protest over US education cuts (AFP)
Police arrest a group of protestors who tried to block a main road in Oakland, California. Students clashed with baton-wielding police as thousands took to the streets across California in mostly peaceful protests against cuts in education spending(AFP/Getty Images/Justin Sullivan)AFP - Students clashed with baton-wielding police as thousands took to the streets across Califor...