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If one follows press reports in this country, one gets the distinct impression that there is a grand scheme afoot to destroy the American public school system.

Chippewa Valley and Utica high schools are among the schools that the Michigan Department of Civil Rights is asking to stop using American Indian nicknames, mascots, chants and imagery. Chippewa Valley uses the nickname “Big Reds” and Utica uses “Chieftains.”

Both houses of the General Assembly this afternoon passed bills to create a special school district designed to take over and fix failing schools.

More states aren't promoting students who are struggling to read at the end of third grade.

Senate Democrats say two Republican education bills are cookie-cutter copies from a conservative think tank. But Republicans say: Heck, no. Our bills are homemade with homegrown ingredients.

For the past 17 years, Seattle voters have approved every school levy that has come before them, and Seattle Public Schools officials hope voters will now approve two more levies worth $1.25 billion.

In Nevada, as across the nation, ambitious efforts are under way to improve K-12 schooling.

Mississippi and Maine have become the latest in a series of states to question whether school districts should be held financially responsible when students arrive at college unprepared.