HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - Aubrey Sparks is like any other 14-year-old girl. She enjoys giggling with her friends and listening to silly music. But Aubrey also sneaks copies of her dad’s Scientific American Mind, wakes up early to watch CNN, and, in August, the Springfield Middle School eighth-grader will enroll in college.

Looking to control discipline among students waiting for buses and traffic on streets around schools, Bryan County Education has decided to stagger starting times for classes next school year.

CNN was in attendance at the Bryan County Board of Education meeting.  That’s Carver News Network!

Superintendent Valerie Truesdale was on her way to present the school district’s budget to Beaufort County Council on Tuesday when her phone rang and she heard great news.  Read her reaction to being named Superintendent of the Year for South Carolina.

WASHINGTON (AP) - When school starts next fall, Teach for America will send an unprecedented number of college graduates to teach in poor communities across the country — but not as many as the group would like.

In a called meeting, the Appling County Board of Education voted to cut the art and ROTC programs fromthe Appling County School System.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Got stress? Oh, yeah, college students say, what with roommates, GPAs, student loans and all the rest.

Living in the shadows of chemical plants.  A USA Today Report says the air around many schools including some here at home is polluted by harmful toxins.

The Effingham County Board Of Education is considering the creation of a professional personal sick day.

Georgia Southern University’s College of Health and Human Sciences and the Bulloch County Health Department are launching a community based initiative to fight childhood obesity.

Dr. Thomas Lockamy says he plans to make a recommendation to the school board to keep Hodge open at its current location.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Wading into the politically charged immigration debate, a group of colleges and universities is urging Congress to give illegal immigrants tuition aid and a path to citizenship in light of efforts in several states to block them.

A school spokesman says students and teachers have been doing emergency exercises for the past year. Trying to stay prepared for anything, even what happened at Columbine High School.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Columbia lawyers have filed a legal challenge in the South Carolina Supreme Court, asking the justices to decide who controls federal stimulus funds that Gov. Mark Sanford has refused to request.

The superintendent says road conditions are too bad.