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School lunches have been called many things, but a group of retired military officers is giving them a new label: national security threat.

A dispute has arisen between school officials in South Hadley, Mass., and the district attorney over whether the officials had long known about the hazing of a 15-year-old.

The nation’s school children made little or no progress in reading proficiency in recent years, according to results released Wednesday from the largest nationwide reading test. The trend of sluggish achievement contrasts with dramatic gains made in mathematics during the same period.

A federal judge on Tuesday said he would not order a school district to hold a prom that it had canceled after an openly lesbian student asked to attend with her girlfriend.

The suspect, identified as a 41-year-old doctor with personal and professional problems, is in custody in Fujian province. At least eight children were slain by a man brandishing a knife outside an elementary school in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian, authorities said Tuesday.

Could Nintendo's Mario be swapping his world of magic mushrooms and ravenous dinosaurs for the staid confines of the classroom?

A growing number of school districts facing budget cuts are looking to advertising on their websites as a new revenue source.

An Oklahoma elementary school student has died of bacterial meningitis, officials said Thursday, and two other students are hospitalized with the illness.

Students were evacuated from a school in Detroit Wednesday morning after a student detonated a homemade explosive in the building, MyFoxDetroit.com reported. There was no fire at Phoenix Multi-Cultural Academy, but smoke did fill the air ...

A Rhode Island school district has voted to fire all the teachers at an underperforming school. The Central Falls School Committee voted Tuesday evening to fire every educator at Central Falls High School, including teachers ...