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Teachers from two East Oakland (Calif.) elementary schools aim to shake up the status quo in the Oakland school district.

Teachers and principals' own report cards are getting a lot more attention. The way educators are evaluated is changing across the country, with a switch from routine "satisfactory" ratings to actual proof that students are learning.

High schools have displayed advertisements on football fields for years, but one metro Atlanta school district hopes to slap the logos of major national companies on cafeteria trays, auditorium seat backs and salad bar sneeze guards to bring in money for cash-strapped schools.

State’s schools are seeing more empty chairs in the classroom and burdens on educators.

The Worcester County Board of Education has officially begun the search for a new schools superintendent.

Smaller schools? More charters? Those are yesterday's headlines in the world of school reform. The hot-button topic now is the inclusion of student test scores in teacher evaluations. Yet as school administrators and the teachers union battle it out in current contract negotiations in Los Angeles, who would have guessed that state law addressed this issue long ago?

Earlier this year, Indiana education officials took the unprecedented step of taking over five public schools.

Beginning this week, nine states that were the runner-up finalists from last year's Race to the Top competition can apply for a portion of the $200 million Race to the Top round three fund.

An early assessment from educators provides a grim reaction to the $5.4 billion that Texas lawmakers have cut from public education, according to a survey of some 3,500 teachers and school employees.

The Ohio Board of Education has taken the first step toward creating a statewide teacher evaluation model that would account for student growth.