Yahoo! News: Education News

NY officer hurt when 2 buses, patrol car collide (AP)
Mich. schools chief says laws needed to get grants (AP)
Wash. Supreme Court overturns school salary ruling (AP)
Northern Iowa Univ. union agrees to contract talks (AP)
Obama uses school dollars to prod states to change (AP)

NY officer hurt when 2 buses, patrol car collide (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 02:40 PM PST

AP - Authorities say an officer was seriously injured when two school buses carrying students and a police patrol car all collided in New York's Hudson Valley.

Mich. schools chief says laws needed to get grants (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 02:11 PM PST

AP - Michigan will have to change state law to have any shot at a slice of more than $4 billion set aside by the Obama administration for states that shake up their public school systems, the state's schools chief said Thursday.

Wash. Supreme Court overturns school salary ruling (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 11:21 AM PST

AP - Variation in the way Washington teachers and other school staff are paid does not pose a constitutional problem, the Washington Supreme Court ruled on Thursday.

Northern Iowa Univ. union agrees to contract talks (AP)

Posted: 12 Nov 2009 07:40 AM PST

AP - The faculty union at Northern Iowa University has agreed to reopen its contract with the school.

Obama uses school dollars to prod states to change (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2009 07:46 PM PST

AP - States are jockeying for a new $5 billion pot of education money even before the contest has begun.