A 21-year-old U.S. Marine on his way home to Alabama after a tour of duty in Iraq was killed in a head-on collision near Six Flags.

Budget time is here again along with unfunded mandates and the MER . It's also a time when people say you can never spend enough money on education.

Children from low- and moderate-income families in New Orleans are about to get another chance to attend private school at taxpayer expense.

A North Carolina-based soldier has been charged in connection with several sexual assaults and burglaries near Fort Bragg.

I finally figured out how to cut 90 percent of the cost of California's K-12 education for failing schools.

When Delgado's parents could not take her to visit Lesley University in Cambridge, Mass., her French teacher at Central Falls High School, Hope Evanoff, took her by train and helped her seek financial aid.

Antoinette Ellington works in the office of Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in Asbury Park to defray tuition so her 7-year-old son Mikhai can attend classes there.

If Louisiana excels at one thing in education, it's accountability measures. Year after year, the Louisiana Department of Education is praised for creating meaningful standards for public school students.