Posted: 7:13 AM District officials call the most recent negotiation session "adversarial."

Posted: 11:45 AM A public interest group says as many as 900 colleges are pushing students into using payment cards that carry hefty costs, sometimes even to access students' financial aid money.

Posted: 1:28 PM U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan said he has approved waivers for Connecticut, Delaware, Louisiana, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio and Rhode Island.

Posted: 1:49 PM Each year, an estimated 1.7 million U.S. college students are steered to remedial classes to catch them up and prepare them for regular coursework. But a growing body of research shows the courses are eating up time and money, often leading not to degrees but student loan hangovers.

Posted: 12:39 PM Fifty-four school districts are involved in the case. The districts are alleging that budget cuts in recent years amount to reneging on promises legislators made to comply with the court order.

Posted: 3:36 PM The election-season standoff means efforts to resolve the dispute will be delayed until next month.

Updated: 11:56 AM A police officer says an Ohio charged with fatally shooting three students in a school cafeteria admitted killing the victims but didn't know why he did it.

Posted: 11:39 AM Sabrina Grant, of Framingham, says her anger turned to rage when her 10-year-old son got home, because she discovered the wrong tooth had been yanked.

Updated: 5:56 PM The grand prize winner in the Fuel Up to Play 60 Physical Activity Challenge was Gardiner Elementary School.

Posted: 9:40 AM An 8-year-old boy who was kicked out of class for wearing a costume of Dr. Martin Luther King is asking for an apology from school officials.

Posted: 8:26 AM Kansas legislators want to provide more help for college students who struggle academically, but without having the state pay for remedial courses at its universities.

Posted: 10:20 AM A white Colorado second-grade student who wore black face paint as part of a Martin Luther King costume has drawn criticism from school officials.

Posted: 9:19 AM School officials say parents were notified last week warning them the loan program was shutting down for the year.

Posted: 12:28 PM A new national report says up to 7.5 million students miss nearly a month of school each year, making them much more likely to drop out before they graduate.

Posted: 8:25 AM The proposed standards would raise the required GPA score of high school students and require students to apply by Feb. 1.

Updated: 12:21 PM The governor is preparing to sign a proclamation apologizing for years of state-sanctioned segregation.

Posted: 8:15 AM A math and science academy created to keep some of Kansas' top students from leaving the state has graduated its second class.

Posted: 2:35 PM Circle High School received a new wind turbine on Monday as part of Kansas State University's Kansas Wind for Schools program.

Posted: 2:44 PM Kansas State University is planning to build its first new residence hall on campus in half a century.

Posted: 10:44 AM Kansas State University has hired an internationally known pharmacology expert to direct a center at the university involved with improving animal health and food safety.

Posted: 8:38 AM Police have charged two Kentucky high school students with video voyeurism after they say one of them held a cellphone under a teacher's dress, made a video and posted it online.

Updated: 7:13 AM May 17 will mark the 58th anniversary of the historic U.S. Supreme Court Decision ruling school segregation unconstitutional.

Posted: 3:04 PM A new report says Kansas eighth-graders scored higher than the national average on a science proficiency exam.

Posted: 11:16 AM Educators exasperated by the need for greater parent involvement have persuaded Tennessee lawmakers to sign off on a novel bit of arm-twisting: Asking parents to grade themselves on report cards.

Posted: 9:21 AM The federal government is reporting that eighth-graders in the U.S. are doing better in science than two years ago, but seven out of 10 still are not considered proficient.