
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- It's never too early to learn about helping others.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The State's top educator is speaking out about a national grant program that could mean dollars in Florida's classrooms.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A local high school is hosting a college fair this weekend, complete with information about financial aid, scholarships and strategies for students.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Police say a Mandarin High School employee pulled a shotgun on a store clerk and demanded money. But when the store clerk complied, he pulled off his mask and said it was a joke.

WARE COUNTY, Ga. -- Financial problems have a local school facing possible closure.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- More than 60 top corporate and community executives spent the day as " Principals For The Day" at Duval County schools.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla -- It's homecoming this week at Trinity Christian Academy, not Halloween. But thanks to the Navy, some students are getting to go for a slightly scary ride.

CLAY COUNTY, Fla.-- Starting today, the Clay County Health Department will be offering the H1N1 vaccine to public and private school students.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Pre-kindergarten classrooms across the state are getting $1.7 million in federal stimulus money.

LOS ANGELES - The Walt Disney Co. is expanding a refund program for its "Baby Einstein" videos for toddlers in response to challenges about the legitimacy of its educational claims.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. medical school enrollment is up for the 11th consecutive year as colleges seek to meet a growing demand for physicians.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- New math scores show fourth-graders made no gains since 2007, the first time in two decades they have failed to improve. Eighth-graders advanced for yet another year.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- At today's Garbage on the Green, University of North Florida students and faculty were talking trash.

FOXBORO, MA -- Some Massachusetts high school students will soon be subject to alcohol breath tests at school.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Health for the body and the mind was stressed today around the world.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- One year after announcing a strategic plan to take Duval County Public Schools to the top, the superintendent is giving a progress update.

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The University of North Florida took time Friday to recognize its top professor.

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.
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