is looking at an idea to set graduation standards for all 178 school districts. The board president does not want to make them mandatory and state wide since local school districts just love having the power to set their own graduation standard.

equipment are now being bought by teachers each year, but the East Side Union High School District has not reimbursed teachers for these purchases due to budget problems.

is considering a new plan on how it admits Iowa students that graduate from high school. The new idea would give approximately equal weighting to the GPA, the class rank and the number of core subject areas with the ACT score getting slightly less weight.

Texas parents on weather graded tests can go home with their kids is going to take around one more month.  They want to bring this issue to another vote.

on the high cost of college textbooks. This article is mainly on two college students and what they have done to lower the cost of buying a college textbook.

of Kentucky has been formed to to solve the problem of a shortage of math and science teachers inside the state.