
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The principal at Hendricks Day School in Jacksonville agreed to let her students turn her into a human ice cream sundae today!

DUVAL COUNTY, FL -- Enrollment in Duval County Schools is about the same as last school year while St. Johns County is reporting it has nearly 800 more students in its classrooms.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Education Secretary Arne Duncan says the Obama administration is committed to the school accountability at the heart of the No Child Left Behind law but also wants to make changes.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Ten school buses used to transport students in the Duval County School District are running on a cleaner burning fuel, called biodiesel fuel. It is a mix of diesel and chicken fat.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Police say a child was waiting for the bus at Northwestern Middle School early this morning when a suspicious van passed her.

Troubled School Series: This is a make-or-break year of sorts for Jacksonville's Ribault High School.

TALLAHASSEE, FL -- Of Florida's 67 school districts (counties), 21 have been designated "academically high-performing," including some from the First Coast.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- At Friday night's Mandarin Christian versus Cedar Creek Christian football game, the color pink filled the stands. However, pink is not the color for either school.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- A 16-year-old Mandarin High School student has been arrested for battery on a school employee.

CLAY COUNTY, FL -- Clay County teachers are protesting a school board proposal that would basically freeze the pay scale for returning teachers to the county.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The school board has approved a one-time millage rate increase of .25 mills.

MIAMI, FL -- In its never-ending quest to improve student performance, the State Board of Education has approved a new method for grading high schools.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Schools throughout the area are being hit hard in the wallet, and have had to make creative choices to keep going.

FLEMING ISLAND, FL -- Students in Jacqueline Jenkins' American History class heard President Barack Obama talk about personal responsibility in his speech targeted to children and teenagers.

JACKSONVILLE, FL - The White House has posted what President Barack Obama will say to the nation's schoolchildren in his webcast address on Tuesday.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The growing controversy over an online presidential speech to school kids Tuesday has reached all the way into area classrooms.

ATLANTA -- Some parents in Metro Atlanta and across the rest of the country plan to pull their children out of school on Tuesday rather than let them listen to President Obama's webcast address to the nation's students.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- A new charter school, Patterson Academy for the Arts, is being told it needs to take care of some critical housekeeping business or face being closed.

CAMDEN COUNTY, GA -- The number of students being sent home from Camden County Schools has more than doubled since last week.

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FL -- The school district received 700-900 applications for every single elementary teaching position.

TALLAHASEE, FL -- As students prepare for a post-secondary education, Florida officials say they are seeing record numbers in both performance and participation.

TALLAHASSEE, FL -- Florida high school students have a chance to participate in a national math and science competition.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Despite numerous route and bell time changes, few parents and school bus drivers reported problems on the first day back at school. But one Arlington family had to hitch a ride with JTA.

FLAGLER COUNTY, FL -- Matanzas High School is no longer on lock-down, following a search for an armed man.

ST. JOHNS COUNTY, FL -- St. Johns County Schools see more students and many are coming from private schools.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Summer vacation is history as a new school year has started in Duval County.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- It's been a busy weekend for shopping for back to school supplies as students get ready to start a new school year.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Classes get underway in Duval County on Monday with four schools being closely scrutinized by the state; they could be closed if progress isn't made.

CAMDEN COUNTY, GA -- The nurse's office has been a busy place in most Camden County Schools.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Students on the Westside will walk into a state of the art eco-friendly school on Monday.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Students will head to Jacksonville University Monday in record numbers.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- A new company is taking over the school bus routes in Arlington and the Beaches.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The First Coast is well-represented among the nation's best colleges and universities.

ATLANTA (AP) -- A new study shows nearly 65 percent of students who graduated from a Georgia high school in 2008 enrolled in college.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- They weren't wearing tights and capes, but folks from The Public Defender's Office in Jacksonville became heroes today, wearing smiles as they delivered new school supplies to some needy kids in River City.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The Duval County School District opened its 166th School Wednesday morning with a ribbon-cutting at Bartram Springs Elementary.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- As Jacksonville teachers prepare classrooms for students to return Monday, they are not only thinking about supplies and schedules.
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