By The Associated Press, The Birmingham News

Two Republican legislators are proposing the state sell up to $100 million in bonds to buy electronic tablets or similar devices for Alabama students in grades nine through 12.

By Karen Auge and Kurtis Lee, The Denver Post

Gov. John Hickenlooper said Wednesday that after a close review of a Denver district judge’s decision in Lobato vs. Colorado, he will appeal the decision to the state’s highest court.

By The Associated Press, The Republic (Columbus)

The University of Colorado has snapped up 27 .xxx domain names in an effort to prevent pornographers from exploiting the school’s name and brands, but failed in acquiring the Colorado.xxx name.

By Robert A. Frahm, The Connecticut Mirror

A nationally known educator who led school reform efforts in Chicago, Philadelphia and New Orleans will try to turn around one of Connecticut’s most troubled public school systems.

By Keith M. Phaneuf, The Connecticut Mirror

Defending a plan to collect an extra $50 million per year from students by 2016, University of Connecticut officials said Monday that represents the cost of adding nearly 300 faculty.

By Doug Denison, The News Journal (New Castle-Wilmington)

Despite a last-ditch fundraising effort, Campus Community charter school in Dover will shut down its high school program at the end of the academic year. Some 200 current Campus high school students will be forced to enroll elsewhere next fall, and a group of 15 teachers and staff will lose their jobs.

By Staff, Pacific Business News (Honolulu)

Hawaii is one of 10 states that has received grants of $200,000 per year for three years as part of an education program that seeks to prepare students for college readiness.

By Mike Wiser, Sioux City Journal

Iowa’s school population is shrinking at the same time it becomes poorer and more racially and ethnically diverse, according to an Iowa Department of Education report released Wednesday.

By Julie Wooton, The Times-News (Twin Falls)

TWIN FALLS, Idaho – As cries continue for a revamp of the increasingly unpopular federal No Child Left Behind Act, more schools are falling short of annual benchmarks for student achievement.

By Jessie L. Bonner, The Idaho Statesman (Boise)

A former Idaho charter school is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to weigh in on a federal lawsuit filed against state officials who barred the use of the Bible and other religious texts as a historical teaching tool in the classroom.

By The Associated Press, The Lawrence Journal-World

Three more Kansas counties have enrolled to participate in a new program that aims to attract new residents to rural areas by offering to repay college tuition debts.

By The Associated Press, The Lawrence Journal-World

A top aide says Gov. Sam Brownback is willing to consider ideas from Kansas legislators for modifying his plan to overhaul how the state finances its public schools.

By Will Sentell, The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)

Louisiana education leaders have launched a five-year plan to reach the national average for high school students who earn college credit.

By Amanda Cedrone, The Boston Globe

The attorney general’s office has filed a lawsuit against a Waltham driving school for collecting thousands of dollars in fees from students despite knowing it was about to close, officials said.

By Staff, Detroit Free Press

In the last four years, Michigan’s brutal economy, the shredding of the state’s safety net and the national foreclosure crisis have more than tripled the number of homeless students, as reported this week in a four-part Free Press series, “Michigan’s Homeless Students.”

By Dawson Bell, Detroit Free Press

Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation today removing the cap on the number of charter schools allowed to operate in Michigan, ending a debate that began soon after the independent, public schools were first authorized in 1994.

By The Associated Press, Brainerd Daily Dispatch

The Minnesota Supreme Court has agreed to hear the University of Minnesota’s appeal of a $1 million civil verdict against the school and men’s basketball coach Tubby Smith over the hiring of an assistant coach.

By The Associated Press, Jefferson City News Tribune

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Some higher education leaders in Missouri are seeking to make it easier for students to transfer to another school, reasoning that some college is better than none and that transfer students shouldn’t be penalized by being forced to take duplicative classes to get their degrees.

By Debra Erdley, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

Penn State University could be subject to yet another investigation, this one concerning possible civil rights violations.

By Staff, Argus Leader (Sioux Falls)

A yearlong student-teaching model being used on a limited basis at the University of South Dakota is showing how more classroom exposure helps to better prepare future teachers.

By Chas Sisk, The Tennessean (Nashville)

Gov. Bill Haslam is calling for more study of Tennessee’s new process for evaluating teachers, in a bid to head off legislative action spurred by complaints over the system’s fairness and practicality.

By Claudio Sanchez, National Public Radio

School funding in Texas is in turmoil. State lawmakers slashed more than $4 billion from education this school year — one of the largest cuts in state history — and more than 12,000 teachers and support staff have been laid off.

By Jackie Borchardt, Casper Star-Tribune

Wyoming lawmakers have thrown their support behind proposed state standards based on national standards adopted by 45 other states and the District of Columbia.