State Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal says the state will seek a waiver from the federal education law known as No Child Left Behind.

A proposal to overturn a requirement for some schools to participate in a national program providing free and low-cost meals to students is advancing to the state House after Senators approved it Thursday.

California schools will no longer lose $248 million in transportation funding under legislation Gov. Jerry Brown signed Friday – a move applauded by many education officials and school districts that had decried the loss as a disproportionate burden on rural schools.

Thursday, the Senate Education Committee passed the bipartisan Opportunities for Higher Ed Success Act, sponsored by Sen. Evie Hudak, D-Westminister, and Sen. Keith King, R-Colorado Springs.

Colorado’s Democratic Senate gave preliminary approval Friday to a measure that would set a new tuition rate for residents who are illegal immigrants.

For the first time, students’ academic progress will soon be a substantial factor in evaluating the skills of Connecticut’s 50,000-plus public school teachers and principals.

Connecticut education officials say they believe the state is well positioned to receive a federal waiver this spring from parts of the federal No Child Left Behind law.

The state’s vocational and agricultural schools were largely left out of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s plans to increase funding and expand enrollment in nontraditional public schools.

The Florida Legislature is on course for another culture wars fight, after a House panel approved a measure Monday that could authorize student-led prayer in elementary, middle- and high schools.

As roofs sag in old school buildings, air conditioners break, electric panels blow and mold grows in classrooms where students are expected to learn, the maintenance costs keep adding up in this unwinnable game of catch-up for Florida public school districts facing billions of dollars in needed repairs.

After months of pushing for out-of-the-box thinking, Gov. Rick Scott is getting a familiar answer from universities asked to help students develop new skills for a changing economy.

What do landline telephones have to do with school repairs? Quite a bit, but few state lawmakers want to talk about it.

A controversial proposal to retain third-graders who read far below grade level is on the legislative bubble.

The Iowa House on Monday stuck by its two-year school funding budget, approving a plan that maintains a spending freeze for this school year and leaves in place a 2 percent increase for next school year that’s already been approved.

Iowa House Democrats and Republicans traded criticisms today over proposed education spending as newly released budget documents showed House GOP leaders want to cut more than $80 million from Gov. Terry Branstad’s education appropriations package.

The Kansas Senate leader said Friday he had no interest in a bill that would allow concealed carry of weapons on college campuses.

House Republican leaders are proposing a plan to cut Kansas income taxes, removing one key objection to an earlier proposal from Gov. Sam Brownback.

Leaders from both political parties on Friday said Gov. Sam Brownback’s legislative initiatives, including overhauling the state tax code and school finance system, had problems.

WASHINGTON — Schools on military bases such as Fort Knox and Fort Campbell could be shuttered as part of possible Defense Department budget cuts next year, according to an analysis of potential reductions prepared by the Republican staff of the House Armed Services Committee.

Gov. Bobby Jindal’s school voucher plan won’t work, the head of nonprofit advocacy group said Monday.

Louisiana’s superintendents are asking the Jindal administration to require that private and parochial schools that accept students who get state aid also receive an annual letter grade like public schools.

While President Barack Obama and his Republican opponent will capture national headlines this November, Maryland voters will turn their attention to in-state policy disputes, like 2011′s In-State Tuition Bill, also known as the Dream Act.

Maine will not apply this month for a waiver from No Child Left Behind, leaving schools subject to the federal accountability system for at least one more year.

What Gov. Rick Snyder described as a modest increase in the school aid budget for 2013 is actually a cut, says the former director of the nonpartisan House Fiscal Agency.

Michigan’s depleted law enforcement ranks would get a financial boost with a budget plan laid out Thursday by Gov. Rick Snyder, an attempt at reversing steady declines in officer numbers over the past decade.

About 100 students and parents from across Minnesota rallied at the Capitol in St Paul Saturday afternoon to urge lawmakers to pass stronger legislation against bullying in schools.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed people to the governor boards for several universities.

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The founder of an apparel company has given the University of Missouri $5.5 million to research clean energy.

The state Department of Education will move this week toward consolidating Drew and Sunflower County schools.

North Dakota’s Board of Higher Education voted Monday to sue to attempt to block a public vote on a state law that requires the University of North Dakota’s athletics teams to be called the Fighting Sioux.

North Dakota’s secretary of state said the referendum petitions to restore the University of North Dakota’s Fighting Sioux nickname have more than 400 fewer signatures than first advertised.

A survey shows that alcohol use among high school students in North Dakota has dropped dramatically in the last two decades.

No immediate discipline is planned for any Dickinson State University employees in the wake of an audit determining the school awarded hundreds of degrees to foreign students who didn’t earn them, the chancellor of North Dakota’s university system said Saturday.

New Hampshire education officials have chosen not to apply for a waiver from No Child Left Behind.

The state’s community colleges have reached a tentative contract with the state, according to the State Employees Association, which represents the colleges.

Struggling with money is no fun, but learning how to manage it could be thanks to a new online program based in New Hampshire.

Christopher Cerf may not want to order those new business cards just yet. In a surprise move today, the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee postponed a scheduled Thursday confirmation hearing for Cerf, who was nominated by Christie in December of 2010 to become the state’s Education Commissioner.

A proposal to shore up a pension program for public school employees and higher education workers in New Mexico cleared the House on Saturday, but there’s a disagreement among lawmakers and unions over what should be done to ensure the retirement system remains solvent for decades to come.

Democrats are unlikely to follow in Republican footsteps on early-state status, and the teachers union doubles down on Democrats who opposed them — here’s your Friday Flash.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo said today he was optimistic New York school districts would come up with a teacher evaluation system this week. But he repeated his promise to insert a statewide teacher evaluation system into his proposed 2012-2013 budget if the districts don’t meet his Thursday deadline.

It’s high noon this week in Albany as Gov. Cuomo, playing the role of sheriff, faces off with teachers-union leaders — the outlaws.

A proposal being prepared in the Ohio Senate would convey potentially lucrative land-grant status on a second Ohio university, the historically black Central State University.

A new state law gives school districts the authority to suspend students who send a text or post something on the Internet that is deemed to be harrassing, intimidating or bullying to another student.

Few would argue that the cost of a college education is not spiraling out of control.

One is prone to emotional speeches and says he ran for office to pump more money into public schools.

It was a frank question: When Gov. Tom Corbett sits down as one of Penn State’s 32 trustees, with the power to raise tuition, launch building projects and fire venerated coaches, whom does he serve first — the state, or Penn State?

Several Pittsburgh students are in Harrisburg for Valentine’s Day, but it’s not so they can deliver chocolate and flowers to Gov. Tom Corbett.

By the end of 2011, Penn State had spent nearly $3.2 million on consultants, investigators and lawyers to deal with the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

The mother of three of Jerry Sandusky’s grandchildren is angry that a judge has allowed Sandusky to see his grandchildren and will have another judge decide if her kids can visit him while he is under house arrest.

While the headlines and dates might differ, we keep hearing the same old story. Local school boards statewide, including Harrisburg School District, continue to deny their students quality educational options.

Pennsylvania has perfected the art of examining the way it delivers higher education — and then doing little with what it has learned.

Students at South Carolina State University could find fewer courses and larger classes this fall as school officials cope with the latest financial squeeze.

A controversial proposal to retain third-graders who read well below grade level is on the legislative bubble.

South Dakota’s Senate wants to include digital materials in its definition of nonsectarian textbooks loaned by school boards to students ages 5-19.

The South Dakota House has approved a modified version of Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s plan to give bonuses to the state’s top teachers.

Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s education reform plan passed the House on a 41-28 vote Monday as Democrats could not get enough Republicans to join them in opposition.

Gov. Dennis Daugaard’s bonus pay proposal for math and science teachers is the latest in many efforts, in South Dakota and nationally, to raise student achievement in the two subjects thought to be most critical to an economy.

Republican legislators sought to assure teachers Saturday that the compensation and incentive proposals making their way through the Legislature remain works in progress, and that lawmakers are listening to all manner of suggestions how to make them fair and improve them.

The state body that oversees the HOPE Scholarship and several other college grant and loan programs received a stinging audit that cited problems with computer security and a conflict of interest.

Middle Tennessee teachers say changes to education coming from state lawmakers are making it tougher to meet the challenges they face in the classroom.

The Austin State Supported Living Center is operating without gas after a staff maintenance worker on Friday afternoon noticed a break in a gas main that extends through part of the campus.

Even before the state education commissioner began questioning Texas’ emphasis on testing and the effect on teaching, districts had started backing off plans that would made the state’s new standardized test count toward students’ grade-point averages and class rank.

As part of his budget, President Obama on Monday proposed an $8 billion Community College to Career Fund, with the goal of training two million workers for well-paying jobs in high-demand industries.

Former D.C. school chancellor Michelle Rhee has sent her followers to Alabama to promote charter schools, but Alabama should say “no, thanks.” The District of Columbia is no model for school reform.

Lawmakers in at least four states are considering legislation that would make students repeat third grade if they can’t pass state reading exams, reviving debates about whether retaining students boosts achievement or increases their odds of dropping out.

Military veterans and reservists assigned to Utah would be assured in-state tuition at public colleges and universities under a measure advanced by a House panel Monday.

It was an unusual sight at the Legislature: Republicans, Democrats, teachers and education leaders all agreed Monday on a bill that would significantly change school employment laws in Utah.

Improving and evaluating school leadership is now at the heart of a bill that originally hinged on performance pay for teachers and loosening termination laws.

The House of Delegates today passed 55-43 an overhaul of the public school teacher and principal contract and evaluation process, which would essentially phase out a tenure-like system in favor of term contracts.

An overhaul of the contract and evaluation process for public school teachers and principals won preliminary approval in Virginia’s House of Delegates on Friday, setting up a key component of Gov. Bob McDonnell’s education agenda for a final vote on Monday.

The state will offer $25 million in “citizen bonds” starting March 5.

State senators could vote today on overhauling Washington’s system for evaluating teachers and principals.

A bill to reform punishments for high school athletes if the team breaks eligibility rules passed the state Senate on Saturday with nearly full support.

State senators could vote Tuesday on overhauling Washington’s system for evaluating teachers and principals.

Wisconsin state superintendent Tony Evers is upset with Gov. Scott Walker over an education reform bill they worked on together but that doesn’t place charter and private voucher schools under a new accountability system.

Lawmakers are hoping to ease the certification process for some new teachers in an effort to curb the growing shortage of educators in the state.

Energy is in the air at the University of Wyoming’s School of Energy Resources. And in the wind and the ground. The focus of the school as it moves forward remains preparing students for careers in the energy sector, said Mark Northam, the school’s director.