FTC: University of Phoenix to cancel $141m in student debts as part of settlement over deceptive advertising

Officials with the Federal Trade Commission announced that University of Phoenix will cancel $141 million in debts owed to the school by students who were harmed by ads that were allegedly deceptive.

Warrant: Special education teacher made boy, 5, sit in his own waste

A special education teacher in Cobb County was charged in connection to accusations she made a 5-year-old boy sit in his own waist stating she was "going to prove a point" about restroom habits.

91-year-old Buffalo, Minnesota man receives high school diploma

After eighth grade, Clifford Hanson dropped out of school to serve on the family farm. After a lifetime educating himself, his former school district awarded him a diploma.

Officer, boy help to save student's life

A school resource officer wasn't even supposed to be at school Tuesday, fortunately for one student, he was. And he saved this student's life.

Marietta schools to add police officers

The Marietta City School System is adding two new police officer positions within their schools thanks to a new grant.

Arizona lawmaker wants to require students to say Pledge of Allegiance

An Arizona lawmaker has filed a bill that would require public school students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day in class.

Around half of 2020 class of Rhodes Scholars from US are first-generation Americans

Around half of the class of Rhodes Scholars from the U.S. who will study at Oxford University in England next year are first-generation Americans and a majority are minority candidates. 

'Existential,' 'Climate Emergency' chosen as Words of the Year

If this year has left you in the midst of an existential crisis – you’re not alone. Apparently, enough people are in the throes of contemplating human existence that Dictionary.com proclaimed “existential” as its 2019 "word of the year."

11-year-old invents backpack to stop bullying in schools

An Atlanta sixth grader turned his struggle with bullies into a patented invention to help other students.

Fort Worth ISD teacher fired over anti-illegal immigrant tweets wins TEA appeal

Georgia Clark taught English at Carter Riverside High School and complained, in what she thought was a private tweet to President Trump, about her school being overrun by illegal immigrants.

2 California boys, ages 11 and 14, killed in shooting outside elementary school

Two boys in California were killed early Saturday while sitting inside a van in the parking lot of an elementary school when an unknown number of gunmen opened fire into the vehicle, authorities said.