Education News

Arlington County superintendent Patrick K. Murphy proposed a $520 million spending plan Thursday that would increase employee salaries while eliminating about 60 positions, including custodians, special education assistants, and employees working with teen parents.

Efforts to ease sleep deprivation among teenagers in the Washington region have expanded, with at least four suburban school districts now examining whether the first bells of the high school day ring too early in the morning.

(Update: Alabama legislature passes tax credit program)

At a time when government budgets at all levels are under enormous strain, families and businesses are struggling and federal agencies are facing dramatic across-the-board spending cuts, you would think lawmakers would be careful about spending public money. So it may surprise you to learn that in a growing number of states, legislators are setting aside public money to pay for private school tuition -- and rich people are benefiting.

A Maryland state board has concluded that the University System of Maryland Board of Regents violated an open meetings law “in multiple respects” when it met twice in private last fall to discuss plans for the state’s flagship university to move to the Big Ten athletic conference.

The invitation arrived by e-mail late Friday night.

U.S. Speaker of the House John Boehner asked students from Rosa L. Parks Elementary School in Prince George’s County to attend the unveiling ceremony of the nine-foot bronze statue of Rosa L. Parks in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.