A transgender student made University of South Florida officials stop and think.

Gov. Nathan Deal is relatively safe in predicting that “brighter days lie ahead” in Atlanta public schools. The reason: It couldn’t get much darker. In one of the worst education scandals in modern U.S. history, a state investigation unearthed cheating by at least 178 educators at 44 of 56 Atlanta public schools investigated; 80 of the guilty confessed to it.

Across Atlanta Public Schools, staff worked feverishly in secret to transform testing failures into successes.

A new, but familiar, name has been tossed into the ring to be DeKalb’s next school boss — former state schools Superintendent William “Brad” Bryant.

Students would pay $1.25 for a one-way school bus ride, or 50 cents more, under a fare increase proposal aimed at helping make up a $9 million legislative cut in funding to student transportation.

Big changes are expected Friday to the Illinois Student Assistance Commission, the state agency that’s come under fire for its management of the College Illinois prepaid tuition program.

Illinois will assess only reading and arithmetic now that high school juniors will no longer be tested on their writing skills during standardized exams every spring, according to a published report.

State House GOP leaders say they’re not surprised that the teachers unions are taking an active role in attempts to recall lawmakers who approved an education reform package.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Years of steady enrollment growth and declining state support has University of Missouri leaders publicly discussing limits on the number of students who attend the system’s four campuses.— a notion that had previously only been whispered in private.

For nearly a half century the Governor’s School has been a Tar Heel institution, honing and stretching the minds of some of the brightest high school students in the state.

While some North Dakota lawmakers whine that higher education is out of control and unresponsive to the needs of the state, national observers of public university systems give North Dakota’s schools very high marks.

North Dakota leads the nation in a recent report that highlights graduation rates for community college students.

It’s been a tough week of reckoning for New Jersey. This year, the Democrats in the Legislature introduced a budget that restored funding to programs providing health, education and welfare to the state’s citizens.

In naming Rochester first among the 100 metros, the MSN Real Estate Most Livable Bargain Markets list singled out the community’s “highly educated population, picturesque scenery, affordable housing and expanding high-tech job base.”

New York’s top auditor has rapped the State University of New York’s chancellor for improperly hiring a consultant to review the system’s relationship with the SUNY Research Foundation.

The number of college graduates desperately searching for jobs throughout the summer will dwindle in the coming years, according to a new study. And that’s not just because the economy is expected to grow.

The notion that all citizens are entitled to an education is deeply rooted in the history of this country. Horace Mann espoused this concept while serving as the secretary of education for the commonwealth of Massachusetts beginning in 1837.

It’s the common refrain of the disenchanted, disillusioned and those generally disappointed with some of democracy’s outcomes: It’s all politics.

The University of Texas took a two-pronged approach Wednesday in its latest effort to resist higher education policies advocated by an Austin-based think tank, Gov. Rick Perry and the chairman of UT’s governing board.

Continued budget cuts are a causing dramatic changes for schools. Not only are they having to reduce personnel and raise class sizes, many schools are cutting school days come this school year.

University of Utah researchers have secured a $300,000 federal grant to develop sensors that will improve the efficiency of coal-fired electrical plants.

The 44-year-old Vermont Law School student, who is blind, is suing the National Conference of Bar Examiners and the Act Inc. testing company, saying they aren’t providing the accommodations she needs in order to take the legal ethics exam all lawyers must take before they practice in Vermont and most other states.

CASPER, Wyo. — Wyoming students generally performed better on state assessments this spring than in past years, according to statewide results released Wednesday.