Alabama's highest court says the state's financially troubled prepaid college tuition program can pay participants reduced rates rather than full tuition.

An Alabama mayor is pushing a plan that will drug test students in middle school and high school.

Alabama is getting serious about school safety.

Republicans seeking to repeal the Common Core educational standards in Alabama have scored their first victory.

Today, students at Troy University’s main campus will begin to register for classes for the fall of 2013.

The Alabama House has adopted a $5.7 million budget that gives teachers and other education employees their first pay raise since 2008.

On April 4, 2013, Enterprise High School self-reported a violation of Alabama High School Athletic Association rules pertaining to illegal recruitment of a student not in our school zone.

The Alabama House Ways and Means-Education Committee has approved a $5.74 billion education budget that includes a contentious proposal for the state to pay $5 million for liability insurance for teachers.

Federal officials say Georgia will get $17.2 million in federal grant money as part of a plan aimed at improving some persistently low-performing schools.

One of Georgia's largest school systems is set to discuss a security plan that includes equipping schools with panic buttons.

The Georgia Department of Education plans to give parents a detailed look at schools' performance.

Democratic leaders from the Alabama House and Senate are proposing legislation to repeal a new law providing state tax credits for parents who send their children to private schools rather than failing public schools.

School officials say as many as 25 students at a Massachusetts school were denied lunch this week because they either could not pay or their pre-paid accounts did not contain enough money.

Dothan City School officials have decided not to eliminate magnet schools and will now move in a new direction.

Children from across the nation will rub elbows with Michelle Obama and dine off fine china in the East Room of the White House this summer as part of a contest to promote healthy eating.

The American Federation of Teachers is denouncing a suggestion that schools train selected staff to carry weapons, and that each school should have at least one armed security officer.

A new survey of Alabama teachers finds that a majority of them support having armed security officers in their schools.

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The Capital Survey Research Center (CSRC) completed a survey of 699 teachers asking them: how safe they believe their schools now are; what they think is not safe; what safety and security measure they now have; what safety and security incidents they have experienced; what proposals they would offer to make schools safer; and, how they feel about a range of proposals that have been made.

Lawmakers are negotiating over whether Georgia students should be allowed to carry guns on college campuses.

Gov. Robert Bentley told retired educators that he signed a bill providing private school tax credits because of the flexibility it gives public schools to try new ideas to improve learning.

Alabama's common core standards for public schools have survived another challenge.

Troy University will host the Fifth Annual Gifted Education Conference for parents and teachers of high-ability K-2 students at the Dothan Campus on Saturday, April 6, from 9:30 – 3 p.m. in the Michelin Room in the Library/Technology Building.

Authorities say a University of Central Florida student who pulled a dorm fire alarm in the middle of the night had a more sinister plan than sending students scurrying out into the night.

The Dothan City School board is listening and considering some parents' pleas. A change to the grade point average scale has altered the academic ranking for some students.