When budget cuts threatened the arts, science, math and technology programs at Melrose Elementary School, its students' parents decided to take action...

I ask you to think long and hard about what the future of California -- and our nation -- will look like if our public schools go down in flames.

STOCKTON, Calif. — The financial crisis hitting many of the nation's public schools is taking a heavy toll in cities such as Stockton, a blue-co...

In the midst of Duncan's "New Normal," community schools make more sense than ever.

"Students Sound Off" is an ongoing student blogger contest aimed at providing students a loud and clear voice in the education debate presented by Huf...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Hundreds of teachers from around California descended on the state Capitol Monday to make the case for extending tax hikes ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama surprised a group of eighth graders from a Colorado middle school on Monday, just days after they feared a g...

-- As lawmakers around the country debate their states' budgets, they're staring over the edge of a massive fiscal cliff – the point where abou...

MILLINOCKET, Maine — Northern Maine is 7,000 miles and a world away from China, but that's not stopping a school superintendent from recruiting ...

As the economic crisis continues, states and school districts are playing a cruel game of "pick your poison." To close budget gaps, administrators are...

Our electives were dismissed, our teachers took more furlough then they could carry and seniors looked to a counselor and found her office vacant. Hamilton, have we not suffered enough?

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Worried about possible layoffs, school principal Michele Miller spotted a potential solution in her own home. The principal of ...

DETROIT — Robert Bobb has spent the past two years closing dozens of schools and firing principals in an effort to fix the failing Detroit Publi...

SAN BRUNO, Calif. — School districts in California have issued nearly 19,000 layoff notices so far to teachers amid uncertainty over the state b...

Alarmed that her favorite class, and its teacher, might be axed amid school budget cuts, Houston girl Elodie Giles wanted to help. The 8-year-old Tra...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Providence Mayor Angel Taveras proposed closing four schools and eliminating up to 70 teaching positions Monday, the latest c...

The laid-off teachers will be asked to substitute teach for themselves, as their job has not been deemed worthy enough to save, yet somehow the kids still need to take that class.

Alarmed to hear that state budget cuts were forcing teacher layoffs in her area, Arcadia, Calif. 5th grader Jocelyn Lam decided to donate her life's s...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Parents in a wealthy suburban Kansas City school district cannot seek to raise property taxes above a state cap because it co...

As the debate over education budget cuts escalates across the country, one New York Superintendent, Carole Hankin, has garnered attention for the amou...

Dear Governor Scott, Are our legislators attempting to set a Guinness Record for record-breaking time to pass the most controversial legislation ev...

WASHINGTON — Even in the midst of large spending cuts, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Monday that schools can improve the performance of s...