Since July, when the Pa. Leadership Charter School opened a regional office in the Pittsburgh Mills mall, the number of students from Valley communities attending online schools has soared — more than doubling in some districts.
In all, about 600 Alle-Kiski Valley elementary and secondary students are enrolled in cyber schools — Internet-based schools where they [...]

The Siemens Foundation today announced the first winners of a major scholarship initiative aimed at encouraging minority students to pursue teaching careers in science and math. The announcement comes just two months after President Bush established math and science education as a national priority in his State of the Union address.
Thirty-nine students will receive scholarships [...]

The Medway Special Education Parents Advisory Council, in conjunction with the Medway Special Education Department will hold its monthly Hang Out Night for youth with special needs, Fridays, April 28, May 26 and June 25, at Christ Church, Medway, from 7 to 9 p.m. All adolescents between the ages of 10 and14 with Autism Spectrum [...]

Parents have a new resource to track their children’s academic progress with the launching of the FCAT Parent Network.
The new Web site, announced recently by Gov. Jeb Bush and Education Commissioner John Winn, will enable parents to view their student’s Florida Comprehensive Assessment Test reading and mathematics scores on the Internet beginning this spring when [...]

Southern Illinois University is among a number of universites and colleges that are opening fellowships, scholarships and other programs intended for minorites to white students.
The Associated Press reports that universities began to worry about litigation following a 2003 Supreme Court decision in which using race in admissions to higher education was left unclear.
The court did [...]

The momentum for rehabilitation starts moving, and the first order of business involves the construction of homes and schools.
And from the looks of it, the beneficiaries of the multi-sectoral aid are not only limited to the displaced survivors of barangay Guinsaugon but also five other high-risk, disaster-prone barangays of Saint Bernard, like Hinabian, Magatas, Sug-angon, [...]

If our experience at Harvard is any guide, nothing can replace the experience of attending college in person. But not everyone has that option, as some students are constrained by barriers, especially financial ones, that would make the cost of attending college prohibitive. That is why we welcome Congress’ recent decision to open federal financial [...]

The Education Department bent the rules to award grants worth millions of dollars to hand-picked applicants in 2001 and 2002, congressional investigators have found. The moves were not characterized as illegal and no corrective action was required.
In a review released by a top House Democrat, the Government Accountability Office detailed three cases in which the [...]

Seventy four schoolchildren, survivors in the Southern Leyte mudslide whose parents vanished in the tragedy, will be given scholarships, according to the Department of Education (DepEd).
Education Officer-in-Charge Fe Hidalgo said that the scholarships will be provided through the DepEd’s adopt-a- school fund, student health program, student educational insurance program and student career guidance.
Hidalgo said she [...]

The federal Education Department has agreed to review requests from 20 states to alter significantly the way they measure student progress under the No Child Left Behind Act. The move comes as the number of schools across the country deemed substandard under that law grows by the thousands.
The requests, which Education Secretary Margaret Spellings invited [...]